Trash and Smash by ItsEducational

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul mid-power beatdown engine helmed by Bello, Bard of the Brambles. Bello turns heavy non-Equipment artifacts and non-Aura enchantments with mana value 4 or greater into 4/4 Elemental creatures with indestructible and haste on your turn. Whenever these animated permanents deal combat damage to an opponent, they draw a card. The strategy ramps aggressively on turns 1 and 2, casts Bello on turn 3, and immediately begins attacking on turn 4 with newly cast 4-drop utilities. As additional 4-plus mana permanents enter play, damage doublers like Unnatural Growth, Gratuitous Violence, and Berserkers' Onslaught quickly amplify combat damage to lethal thresholds. On opponents' turns, your animated permanents revert to non-creature permanents, naturally dodging sorcery-speed creature board wipes. While vulnerable to instant-speed removal targeting Bello and mass exile effects, the deck maintains rapid velocity and card draw through direct combat pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Asceticism
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Bedlam
• 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
• 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic
• 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Collective Inferno
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Copperline Gorge
• 1 Decimate
• 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1 Enchantress's Presence
• 1 Esika's Chariot
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fog
• 10 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Cave
• 1 Game Trail
• 1 Garruk's Packleader
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Glorious Sunrise
• 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
• 1 Gratuitous Violence
• 1 Greater Good
• 1 Gruul Signet
• 1 Gruul War Chant
• 1 Gruul War Plow
• 1 Harmonize
• 1 Hunter's Talent
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
• 1 Kessig Wolf Run
• 1 Kodama of the East Tree
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Mana Reflection
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mossfire Valley
• 1 Mosswort Bridge
• 8 Mountain
• 1 Muerra, Trash Tactician
• 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1 Outpost Siege
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Primeval Bounty
• 1 Pyreswipe Hawk
• 1 Raging Ravine
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Rolling Hamsphere
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Scrapshooter
• 1 Setessan Champion
• 1 Sheltered Thicket
• 1 Sight of the Scalelords
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Starstorm
• 1 Sunbird's Invocation
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Symmetry Matrix
• 1 Talisman of Impulse
• 1 Tendershoot Dryad
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
• 1 Trailtracker Scout
• 1 Tranquil Thicket
• 1 Unnatural Growth
• 1 Wandertale Mentor
• 1 Warstorm Surge
• 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
• 1 Wooded Ridgeline
• 1 Wrecking Gecko