Bello by Excadril

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Gruul deck centers on Bello, Bard of the Brambles, who turns each non-Equipment artifact and non-Aura enchantment with mana value 4 or greater into a 4/4 Elemental creature with indestructible, haste, and "whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card." The primary plan is to accelerate into a dense pack of high-CMC permanents-mana rocks, powerful enchantments, and value artifacts-and then crash in with a horde of indestructible 4/4s. Wins come through infinite-combat loops fueled by attack-trigger mana producers (Savage Ventmaw, Nature's Will) and extra-combat enablers (Aggravated Assault, Hellkite Charger, Karlach, Fury of Avernus). The deck also packs mass-pump effects like Gratuitous Violence and Unnatural Growth to close games via raw damage if the combo is not assembled.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Bear Umbra
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Brass Infiniscope
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Cosmic Cube
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fog
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Gruul War Plow
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Hellkite Charger
  • 1 Helm of Awakening
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Karlach, Fury of Avernus
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Lavabrink Floodgates
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Echoes
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 N'Yami-Class Mother Ship
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Prismatic Lens
  • 1 Pyreswipe Hawk
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ring of the Lucii
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rolling Hamsphere
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Savage Ventmaw
  • 1 Sceptre of Eternal Glory
  • 1 Sisay's Ring
  • 1 Skitterbeam Battalion
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Ur-Golem's Eye
  • 1 Vibranium Mining Mech
  • 1 Vitalize
  • 1 Voltaic Construct
  • 1 Wandertale Mentor
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw