[1] Animated Army Upgrade by user4564722

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul mid-power stompy list led by Bello, Bard of the Brambles. Bello turns heavy utility artifacts and enchantments (4+ mana value) into 4/4 indestructible, hasty Elemental creatures during your turn, drawing cards whenever they connect in combat. Because these permanents stop being creatures on opposing turns, they naturally dodge sorcery-speed creature wipes like Wrath of God and Blasphemous Act. The deck accelerates early using cheap mana dorks and rocks, deploys Bello on Turn 3, and begins swinging with animated utility pieces on Turn 4. By Turn 5, damage doublers such as Gratuitous Violence, Berserkers' Onslaught, and Unnatural Growth turn these utility pieces into lethal threats that dismantle opposing life totals across two subsequent combat rounds. An Earthbending subtheme with cards like Bumi, Unleashed and The Boulder, Ready to Rumble provides an alternate combat vector if Bello is contained.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Badgermole
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Bitter Work
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bootleggers' Stash
  • 1 Bumi, Unleashed
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Earth Surge
  • 1 Earthbender Ascension
  • 1 Embodiment of Insight
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Grumgully, the Generous
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Halana and Alena, Partners
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Nahiri's Lithoforming
  • 1 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Overrun
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Pyreswipe Hawk
  • 1 Pyromancer's Goggles
  • 1 Raggadragga, Goreguts Boss
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rite of the Dragoncaller
  • 1 Rockalanche
  • 1 Rolling Hamsphere
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Ruby, Daring Tracker
  • 1 Sandwurm Convergence
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Signal the Clans
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solid Ground
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Advocate
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Boulder, Ready to Rumble
  • 1 The Earth King
  • 1 The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Time of Need
  • 1 Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 White Lotus Tile
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Yedora, Grave Gardener