Animated Army

Bracket 2

BLC — Bloomburrow Commander · 2024-08-02

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles · Color identity: GR

Bracket

Power Level

4.2/10

Tipping Point

Game Changers

Why this bracket?

Noncombat burst finish: scaling burn (Warstorm Surge) — finite and board-dependent, so it doesn't trip the two-card-infinite floor, but it's a real combo kill this list is built toward
High optimization — score 22/75 (11 card-advantage sources, 8 interaction spells, 1 fast-mana sources) — raises this deck above its hard floor
Engine accuracy reference: 100% bracket-in-range across 36 validation decks (engine beats Claude Sonnet/Opus/Haiku on bracket-exact).

How it compares

Against the 4 Bloomburrow Commander decks we analyzed, this is the weakest — power 4.2 versus a set average of 4.7. That is 0.5 below the 58-precon library average of 4.7. Its Tipping Point lands on turn 4, the same as the library median.

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Bello, Bard of the Brambles's colour identity, none over $20, and none of them a Game Changer, so none forces a Bracket 3 floor on its own. Adding cards can still move the bracket: paste the updated list back into the calculator to re-check.

Wayfarer's Bauble Ramp $0.34
Kodama's Reach Ramp $1.52
Nature's Lore Ramp $2.33
Three Visits Ramp $4.03
Nature's Claim Interaction $1.18
Krosan Grip Interaction $1.69

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $11.09

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
1 Etali, Primal Storm
1 Prosperous Bandit
1 Pyreswipe Hawk
1 Alchemist's Talent
1 Berserkers' Onslaught
1 Outpost Siege
1 Rain of Riches
1 Chaos Warp
1 Sunbird's Invocation
1 Gratuitous Violence
1 Warstorm Surge
1 Starstorm
1 Lotus Cobra
1 Evercoat Ursine
1 Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic
1 Trailtracker Scout
1 Thickest in the Thicket
1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
1 Esika's Chariot
1 Unnatural Growth
1 Greater Good
1 Kodama of the East Tree
1 Grothama, All-Devouring
1 Rampaging Baloths
1 Bootleggers' Stash
1 Primeval Bounty
1 Gilded Lotus
1 Spine of Ish Sah
1 Temple of Abandon
1 Karplusan Forest
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Sheltered Thicket
1 Game Trail
1 Raging Ravine
1 Copperline Gorge
1 Mossfire Valley
1 Cinder Glade
1 Rootbound Crag
1 Mosswort Bridge
1 Blasphemous Act
1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
1 Tendershoot Dryad
1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
1 Path of Discovery
1 Decimate
1 Rolling Hamsphere
1 Teapot Slinger
1 Explore
1 Farseek
1 Cultivate
1 Grumgully, the Generous
1 Wandertale Mentor
1 Thought Vessel
1 Arcane Signet
1 Wooded Ridgeline
1 Big Score
1 Abrade
1 Rampant Growth
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Beast Within
1 Garruk's Packleader
1 Harmonize
1 Garruk's Uprising
1 Gruul Signet
1 Burnished Hart
1 Hedron Archive
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Thran Dynamo
1 Sol Ring
1 Mind Stone
1 Talisman of Impulse
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Gruul Turf
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Forgotten Cave
1 Tranquil Thicket
1 Command Tower
1 Reliquary Tower
4 Mountain
4 Mountain
5 Forest
5 Forest

Bracket assignment per WotC Commander Brackets Beta. Decklist sourced from MTGJSON (https://mtgjson.com/api/v5/decks/AnimatedArmy_BLC.json). Analyzed against https://scrollvault.net on 2026-08-07.