Animated Army | Commander Precon Deck

A Gruul Bloomburrow precon led by Bello, Bard of the Brambles that animates big artifacts and enchantments into hasty, indestructible attackers that draw cards on hits. It wins by ramping into chunky permanents and turning the whole board into a midgame stampede.

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Commander (1)

1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Planeswalkers (1)

1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas

Creatures (21)

1 Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic

1 Burnished Hart

1 Etali, Primal Storm

1 Evercoat Ursine

1 Garruk's Packleader

1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger

1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

1 Grothama, All-Devouring

1 Grumgully, the Generous

1 Kodama of the East Tree

1 Llanowar Loamspeaker

1 Lotus Cobra

1 Prosperous Bandit

1 Pyreswipe Hawk

1 Rampaging Baloths

1 Sakura-Tribe Elder

1 Teapot Slinger

1 Tendershoot Dryad

1 Trailtracker Scout

1 Wandertale Mentor

1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw

Artifacts (14)

1 Arcane Signet

1 Bootleggers' Stash

1 Esika's Chariot

1 Fellwar Stone

1 Gilded Lotus

1 Gruul Signet

1 Hedron Archive

1 Mind Stone

1 Rolling Hamsphere

1 Sol Ring

1 Spine of Ish Sah

1 Talisman of Impulse

1 Thought Vessel

1 Thran Dynamo

Enchantments (13)

1 Alchemist's Talent

1 Berserkers' Onslaught

1 Garruk's Uprising

1 Gratuitous Violence

1 Greater Good

1 Outpost Siege

1 Path of Discovery

1 Primeval Bounty

1 Rain of Riches

1 Sunbird's Invocation

1 Thickest in the Thicket

1 Unnatural Growth

1 Warstorm Surge

Instants (5)

1 Abrade

1 Beast Within

1 Big Score

1 Chaos Warp

1 Starstorm

Sorceries (7)

1 Blasphemous Act

1 Cultivate

1 Decimate

1 Explore

1 Farseek

1 Harmonize

1 Rampant Growth

Lands (22)

1 Cinder Glade

1 Command Tower

1 Copperline Gorge

1 Evolving Wilds

1 Exotic Orchard

10 Forest

1 Forgotten Cave

1 Game Trail

1 Gruul Turf

1 Karplusan Forest

1 Mossfire Valley

1 Mosswort Bridge

8 Mountain

1 Path of Ancestry

1 Raging Ravine

1 Reliquary Tower

1 Rootbound Crag

1 Sheltered Thicket

1 Temple of Abandon

1 Terramorphic Expanse

1 Tranquil Thicket

1 Wooded Ridgeline

Animated Army Deck Notes

Bello, Bard of the Brambles is Gruul ramp with a twist: your big artifacts and enchantments are the creatures. Ramp into high mana value permanents, then Bello animates them into indestructible, hasty Elementals that draw cards when they connect. That means your setup pieces also become attackers, and you can pivot from quiet ramping to sudden lethal pressure. Damage doublers and power-matters support turn those animated permanents into real closers, ending games with a couple of brutal combat steps.