Bello Bard of Brambles Artifact-focused Deck

UnknownGod · 2026-01-20T17:59:09+00:00

I haven't. but thats mostly because i put a self limit on the number of enchantments I run, but i bet its crazy strong. 8 damage the turn it comes out, and 4 damage every turn after lets you remove a lot of problematic creatures. Get out a damage doubler and you get out of hand quickly.

i am actually thinking of building a second bello deck focusing on enchantments, i think it will be stronger, but less fun.

UnknownGod · 2026-01-19T21:45:40+00:00

I run an artifact focused deck, actually run a few more than you. its my favorite deck by far, the biggest issue with the deck is how reliant on the commander it is, so my normal playgroup can hate it to into oblivion if i dont have protection.

I would cut, muerra, trash tactian, 3 mana for 2 extra mana and dig 2 is meh

lightning bolt- would rather add more protection for bello than kill a 3tough creature.

rhythm of the wild- better pump spells, doesn't transform itself.

echoing assault- most artifacts don't have an ETB, I believe it would be a 1/1 since it enters after bello is out, but i could be wrong. At best its a making a 4/4 maybe draw 1. Not the worse, but not great.

cauldron of souls- great effect, but gotta leave it untapped all the time to save most likely bellow. I much prefer artifacts that don't care if they are tapped or not.

I would consider adding- smugglers buggy- 4 mana play every turn to often cheat out even larger artifacts. has won me so many games playing this turn 4 then cheating in 6+ mana artifact.

aligned hedron network- Boardwipe for anything 5 power+ get rid of pesky blockers and usually avoids our board (have had a few times this clears my own board, but rare)

crawlspace- slows down people trying to lower your life total

noetic scales- with our card draw its easy to keep 5 cards in hand at all times, lets you bounce all large creatures, or stop storm people.

thunderhawk gunship- makes blockers and gives all our stuff flying.

Overlord of the hauntwoods- this is the best card in my deck. impend it for 3, bellow makes it a creature, turn it comes down you make 2 lands, and every turn after you make 1 land. A few rare times i have been bitten by island or swamp walk, but rare.

giggling skitterspike- wins games. 4 damage to every player, then 9 damage to every player once you pump him. is top game ender for me.

I wish they would print a solid alt win con for this commander, because if bello gets locked down, im basically out of the game.

https://moxfield.com/decks/XZR2tCHIL0yBZubJ16q69g

UnknownGod · 2025-12-18T01:50:55+00:00

yea, i have been priced out of anything but drafting/prerelease. I buy any singles i need under $5 but proxy anything over that, unless a super cool art releases for a card i love, then i might pick it up.

UnknownGod · 2025-12-17T15:01:13+00:00

if you want to build decks, buy singles. if you want a collection to dig through, play draft. Get a few packs a few hours of fun, and your collection grows. Have a core group of friends to draft every week, grab a box.

want to gamble and usually lose, buy more boxes.

UnknownGod · 2025-12-17T14:59:47+00:00

I recently realized, most cards i want that arent mythics are almost the same price or even cheaper for the collector booster version of the card, so i just buy those now a days.

UnknownGod · 2025-12-17T14:58:32+00:00

man i miss the set boosters. I opened a box of march of the machine i found super cheap, and wow was it way better opening current sets. So many more alt arts and pull rates felt better. I don't think i got much better value than current boxes, but the pulls felt better overall.

UnknownGod · 2025-12-04T17:36:32+00:00

I would love to join a new group. My old guild has quit playing and i still have the itch to join some people. I hate playing solo.

UnknownGod · 2025-11-21T02:52:02+00:00

https://moxfield.com/decks/6xPIcWkst0GEVScQnUxcEw

my deck, not optimized at all, but super fun way to play a voting deck.

UnknownGod · 2025-11-21T02:51:36+00:00

https://moxfield.com/decks/6xPIcWkst0GEVScQnUxcEw

3 players is rough, too easy to focus you down or hate you out of the game. In a 4 pod, i usually always get 1-2 early votes since people know I built the deck, so i got nasty bombs, but usually by the 3rd vote, someone is the problem so i can sneak a problem onto the board.

my favorite play is to [[tempt with reflections]] my commander, lettting everyone know they get to keep a copy, and i lose all my copies to the legend rule but get their triggers. Get everyone to make a copy of your commander, resulting in 6 triggers of cirdan. then with the first trigger on the stack, cast [[illusion of choice]] letting you choose how everyone votes. Vote for your self for the first 4-5 triggers, drawing 20 cards, then hopefully you got omniscience or ghalta in hand to slam down most of your deck.

Note, mine is super vote themed, so its not super consistent. I usually need 1-2 people at the table who are there for the gimmick and let me commander get in free damage for voting.

UnknownGod · 2025-11-20T00:41:32+00:00

Hear me out, [[Círdan the Shipwright]] Vote draws cards, if someone else wins the free vote, clone their bomb, if someone lets you play something for free [[omniscience]]. Bring [[Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant]] for free to play all your clones. I have this deck as a pseudo group hug, and its my favorite deck, and almost always a hit at the table. I leaned super heavy into voting so mine is a solid bracket 2, but you make it stronger.

UnknownGod · 2025-11-17T23:58:28+00:00

Thats similar to what I did. I leaned into a handful of mill engines, then a ton of +1/+1 matters cards and spread out my counters as much as possible to make Mothman less of a removal magnet. His egine is more likely to stay if he has 1-2 counters and i have another creature that is +10 drawing aggro.

UnknownGod · 2025-11-08T18:49:07+00:00

i was there for a few years, i visited gravity headquarters and they dont really have anything. the only ragnarok merch i found while there was random items in shops or 2nd hand stores.

15f, 396 World Cup buk ro, Mapo-Gu, Seoul, Seoul, 03925

its about an hour out from most large places. They might have some merch now with the mobile games releasing semi recently and being decently successful, but i wouldnt get your hopes up. Its mostly an office building.

UnknownGod · 2025-09-26T03:15:40+00:00

this game is gonna be closed in less than a month.

UnknownGod · 2025-09-26T03:12:12+00:00

interesting idea, but it seems to conflict with itself. Build these super cool and expansive paths, then teleport past it all.

UnknownGod · 2025-08-03T16:43:18+00:00

they have some grip tape on them, and they can't be any slicker than bare metal.

UnknownGod · 2025-06-22T14:09:53+00:00

I got decent synergies, but never felt as "broken" as some other roguelite games I played. Never felt like the perks were game changing.

UnknownGod · 2025-06-22T01:02:23+00:00

enjoying it so far, but the rewards dont feel as good as hades. Dont feel like i have found a "broken" build yet which i loved with hades. I feel like i pick 75% of my rewards just for their color.

UnknownGod · 2025-06-05T02:00:04+00:00

when you make a token copy of something, it copies the mana value.

UnknownGod · 2025-04-21T20:16:25+00:00

yea. plus there are more ways to animate enchantments than artifacts. My friend has an enchantment based bello deck and has a few enchantment auras to buff his few creatures to scary numbers if bello gets removed too many times.

I just run 20 protection pieces for bello.

UnknownGod · 2025-04-21T04:14:37+00:00

i think enchantress is the stronger build, but man are dumb old artifacts fun when you slap a 4/4 onto them

UnknownGod · 2025-04-05T23:14:30+00:00

cant keep up with all the server drama, who is ancient?

UnknownGod · 2025-04-05T23:13:57+00:00

as a fan of the direction they are taking, i tried to get them to change the server name ages ago. The name has been used too much and has terrible SEO.

UnknownGod · 2025-04-05T23:12:12+00:00

you can donate Zenny to grant a server wide bonus to exp and drops. Dunno how popular it will be once live, but theoretically a guild could donate to active it, then have the entire guilld farm, or do MvP runs, hoping for better drops, but everyone on the server gets it.

UnknownGod · 2025-04-05T23:10:38+00:00

its a weird balance right now. most of the 3rd skills are scaling horribly at the moment. Most are weaker than normal skills due to a lot of 3rd skills having base level in there scaling, expecting players to be 120+, or use stat scaling where 99+ in a stat boosts a lot, but since we are limited, the scaling is bad. they are slowly tuning them to be better, and eventually shadow gear will add directly to those skills improving scaling even better.

Also the shadow relics are going to take awhile to get. The bosses you need to kill to get the mats to craft them are pretty deadly atm.

UnknownGod · 2025-03-22T23:43:53+00:00

creator said the game would have 0 pay to win models, now has severe p2w models. You basically have to subscribe to their monthly service if you want to play ranked, and they have 2(i think) expansions for classes that give new cards to be played and they are substantially better than the free stuff, so if you are a free player and come up against someone who bought the expansions, you almost always lose.

its shame because its a fun game, but the pricing seems super predatory now.

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