Bello the Bard by GR_Logos

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This Gruul Commander deck is piloted by Bello, Bard of the Brambles, focusing on transforming expensive noncreature artifacts and enchantments into aggressive combat threats. During your turn, Bello automatically turns non-Equipment artifacts and non-Aura enchantments with mana value 4 or greater into 4/4 Elemental creatures that have indestructible, haste, and combat-damage card draw. This engine dodges sorcery-speed creature sweepers because the permanents revert to noncreatures on opponents' turns. Supported by dense green mana ramp, the deck curves quickly into impactful 4-drops like Guardian Project, Esika's Chariot, and Overlord of the Hauntwoods. Once the board is established, damage doublers such as Gratuitous Violence and Unnatural Growth turn these indestructible 4/4s into lethal beaters, while Aggravated Assault and Nature's Will provide an infinite combat win condition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Flash
  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbound Slasher
  • 1 Arcbound Whelp
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bedlam
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Bushwhack
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Cosmic Cube
  • 1 Cradle Clearcutter
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Echoing Assault
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Blessing
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Molten Echoes
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Outcaster Trailblazer
  • 1 Overlord of the Boilerbilges
  • 1 Overlord of the Hauntwoods
  • 1 Path of Annihilation
  • 1 Pick Your Poison
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Skitterbeam Battalion
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stuffy Doll
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 The Vision
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Vision, Synthezoid Avenger
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth