Trashman by erich_triple_six

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Gruul beatdown engine helmed by Bello, Bard of the Brambles. Bello turns utility-heavy artifacts and enchantments with mana value 4 or greater into 4/4 Elemental creatures during your turn, granting them indestructible, haste, and combat-damage card draw. Dense 2-CMC ramp powers out Bello on Turn 3 and enables 4-drop and 5-drop engines like Esika's Chariot, Hedron Archive, Berserkers' Onslaught, and Gratuitous Violence on subsequent turns. Because these permanents stop being creatures on opposing turns, the deck is naturally immune to traditional sorcery-speed creature board wipes. It snowballs card advantage by connecting with indestructible attackers, refilling the hand to deploy damage doublers and massive finishers like Unnatural Growth and Ghalta, Primal Hunger. While heavily reliant on Bello to animate its non-creature permanents and lacking dedicated stack interaction, the deck maintains high redundancy and can pivot to standalone stompy threats if its commander is taxed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Colossification
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Crashing Footfalls
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Evercoat Ursine
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glorious Sunrise
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Gruul War Chant
  • 1 Gruul War Plow
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kazandu Refuge
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Monstrous Rage
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Peerless Recycling
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Pyreswipe Hawk
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retreat to Kazandu
  • 1 Rolling Hamsphere
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Sight of the Scalelords
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Symmetry Matrix
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tangle Tumbler
  • 1 Teapot Slinger
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Wandertale Mentor
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline