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COMMANDER(S)
Bello, Bard of the Brambles
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- Gruul
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ANALYSIS

Overview:

A Bello, Bard of the Brambles deck that focuses on high-cost enchantments and artifacts, turning them into combat-ready creatures while maintaining their original effects. The strategy combines enchantress value engines with combat damage multipliers.

Primer:

The deck's primary gameplan revolves around establishing enchantress-based card draw engines while ramping into expensive enchantments and artifacts. Once Bello, Bard of the Brambles hits the battlefield, these permanents become indestructible 4/4 creatures with card draw potential, creating a formidable board presence while maintaining their utility effects.

The secondary strategy involves damage multiplication through enchantments like Fiery Emancipation and Dictate of the Twin Gods, which can quickly amplify combat damage from animated permanents. The deck includes various protection pieces and ramp elements to ensure consistent execution of its gameplan, while maintaining a healthy balance of interaction pieces to deal with threats.

Weaknesses:

The deck is heavily reliant on its commander to execute its primary strategy, making it vulnerable to repeated removal. The mana curve is relatively high, which can lead to slow starts if early ramp isn't drawn. The deck also struggles against mass bounce effects and exile-based removal, which can bypass indestructibility.

Top 10 Most Impactful Cards:

  • Fiery Emancipation
  • Enchantress's Presence
  • Setessan Champion
  • Sol Ring
  • Unnatural Growth
  • Warstorm Surge
  • Primeval Bounty
  • Sunbird's Invocation
  • Eidolon of Blossoms
  • Gilded Lotus

Attribute Ratings:

  • Speed: 4/10
  • Resilience: 6/10
  • Consistency: 5/10
  • Interaction: 5/10

Rating Justification:

This deck operates at a focused casual level, with its ability to create value through enchantress effects and potentially explosive combat damage through multipliers. While it can create powerful board states, it typically needs several turns to set up its engine and doesn't consistently threaten wins before turn 10. The deck is stronger than typical precon decks (4.0) due to its synergistic elements and interaction suite, but lacks the speed and consistency of more optimized builds (6.0+).

Final power level rating: 5.0 - 5.5

DECK LIST
Bello, Bard of the Brambles
Creature: 22
1
Arasta of the Endless Web
2 G G
1
Cyberman Patrol
2
1
Cybermen Squadron
7
1
Destiny Spinner
1 G
1
Eidolon of Blossoms
2 G G
1
Enduring Courage
2 R R
1
Giggling Skitterspike
4
1
Grothama, All-Devouring
3 G G
1
Herald of the Pantheon
1 G
1
Llanowar Elves
G
1
Llanowar Loamspeaker
1 G
1
Nyxborn Behemoth
10 G G
1
Ohran Frostfang
3 G G
1
Ruby, Daring Tracker
R G
1
Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
4 R G
1
Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 G
1
Setessan Champion
2 G
1
Solemn Simulacrum
4
1
Steel Hellkite
6
1
Verduran Enchantress
1 G G
1
Wildsear, Scouring Maw
3 R G
1
Xenagos, God of Revels
3 R G
Sorcery: 7
1
Blasphemous Act
8 R
1
Cultivate
2 G
1
Decimate
2 R G
1
Farseek
1 G
1
Rampant Growth
1 G
1
Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
1
Vandalblast
R
Instant: 6
1
Abrade
1 R
1
Beast Within
2 G
1
Blossoming Defense
G
1
Chaos Warp
2 R
1
Return the Favor
R R
1
Snakeskin Veil
G
Artifact: 10
1
Arcane Signet
2
1
Gilded Lotus
5
1
Gruul Signet
2
1
Hedron Archive
4
1
Nautiloid Ship
4
1
Rolling Hamsphere
7
1
Sol Ring
1
1
Swiftfoot Boots
2
1
Talisman of Impulse
2
1
Thought Vessel
2
Enchantment: 18
1
Abundance
2 G G
1
Berserkers' Onslaught
3 R R
1
City on Fire
5 R R R
1
Descent into Avernus
2 R
1
Dictate of the Twin Gods
3 R R
1
Enchantress's Presence
2 G
1
Fiery Emancipation
3 R R R
1
Frontier Siege
3 G
1
Garruk's Uprising
2 G
1
Gratuitous Violence
2 R R R
1
Omenpath Journey
3 G
1
Primeval Bounty
5 G
1
Rite of the Raging Storm
3 R R
1
Sandwurm Convergence
6 G G
1
Sunbird's Invocation
5 R
1
Thickest in the Thicket
3 G G
1
Unnatural Growth
1 G G G G
1
Warstorm Surge
5 R
Land: 36
1
Cinder Glade
1
Command Tower
1
Copperline Gorge
10
Forest
1
Forgotten Cave
1
Game Trail
1
Karplusan Forest
1
Kessig Wolf Run
1
Mossfire Valley
1
Mosswort Bridge
11
Mountain
1
Reliquary Tower
1
Rootbound Crag
1
Sheltered Thicket
1
Temple of Abandon
1
Tranquil Thicket
1
Wooded Ridgeline