New Untitled Deck by Nachos-Grinder

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This Gruul Midrange deck is commanded by Bello, Bard of the Brambles, designed to turn high-cost utility artifacts and enchantments into an overwhelming combat engine. By ramping aggressively on Turns 1 and 2, the deck deploys Bello on Turn 3 and begins casting 4+ mana value permanents on Turn 4. Under Bello's static ability, these non-Aura enchantments and non-Equipment artifacts animate during your turn as 4/4 Elemental creatures with haste, indestructible, and combat-damage card draw. This allows setup permanents like The One Ring, Guardian Project, and Overlord of the Hauntwoods to immediately attack and replace themselves. On Turn 5, damage doublers and triplers like Fiery Emancipation and Unnatural Growth turn the animated board into lethal combat threats that eliminate opponents over consecutive swings. Built-in indestructible and non-creature states during opposing turns protect the board from standard creature board wipes, while targeted redirection and hexproof spells safeguard Bello from removal.

Decklist (90 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Into the North
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Omnipresence
  • 1 Outcaster Trailblazer
  • 1 Overlord of the Boilerbilges
  • 1 Overlord of the Hauntwoods
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sight of the Scalelords
  • 1 Skitterbeam Battalion
  • 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Street Riot
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wild Growth