Raccooning the World by user6818156

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This Gruul deck is built squarely around Bello, Bard of the Brambles, aiming to turn every non-Equipment artifact and non-Aura enchantment with mana value 4+ into a hasty, indestructible 4/4 that draws a card on combat damage. The primary path to victory is overwhelming combat pressure through a wide board of these animated permanents, amplified by damage-doubling effects like Gratuitous Violence and Unnatural Growth. Supporting elements include land ramp, a handful of one-shot card draw spells, and a small suite of instant-speed removal. The deck lacks infinite combos and tutors, relying entirely on the sheer mass of high-CMC permanents to provide both threats and a slow but steady card-advantage engine via Bello's trigger. Secondary payoffs such as Warstorm Surge and Skysovereign, Consul Flagship add reach, but the core plan is consistently turning over cost-enabled bodies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Abundance
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aspect of Mongoose
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bedlam
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Mist
  • 1 Bootleggers' Stash
  • 1 Call Damage Control
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Court of Bounty
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Echoing Assault
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Elvish Archivist
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glorious Sunrise
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Gruul War Chant
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Into the Wilds
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Leyline of Punishment
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Muerra, Trash Tactician
  • 1 Outpost Siege
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Rage Reflection
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Stolen Strategy
  • 1 Street Riot
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 The Regalia
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Wandertale Mentor
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels