Bello turns every non-Equipment artifact and non-Aura enchantment with mana value 4 or more into a 4/4 indestructible, hasty Elemental during the player's turn, each one drawing a card when it connects. The deck is a Gruul big-permanent stompy list that ramps hard and then deploys a dense suite of expensive enchantments and artifacts that double as attackers. Those come alongside large green creatures, cascade and free-cast engines that chain extra permanents into play, and combat amplifiers that make the animated board lethal. How it wins: It swings with a wide board of indestructible animated permanents and big creatures, multiplied by double strike, damage doubling, power doubling and trample, while burn triggers finish damaged opponents. Key roles: - Animated big permanents: Expensive enchantments and artifacts that are useful on their own also become hasty 4/4 indestructible card-drawing attackers under Bello, so every value piece is also a threat (Bello, Bard of the Brambles, Primeval Bounty, Gilded Lotus). - Combat multipliers: Effects that double damage, grant double strike, double power or give the team trample turn many mid-sized attackers into a one-turn kill, and they are animated attackers themselves (Gratuitous Violence, Berserkers' Onslaught, Unnatural Growth). - Cascade and free casting: Cascade and reveal-and-cast engines turn each spell into two or more permanents, flooding the board with things Bello animates (Wildsear, Scouring Maw, Rain of Riches, Sunbird's Invocation). - Treasure and ramp: Mana rocks, land ramp and Treasure makers rush out four-plus mana permanents. The Treasures also feed cascade from Rain of Riches and an Alchemist's Talent damage engine, and the rocks of mana value 4 or more are attackers themselves (Alchemist's Talent, Bootleggers' Stash, Thran Dynamo). - Big creature value: Power-4-plus creatures draw cards and cheapen each other, keeping gas flowing behind the board (Garruk's Uprising, Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma, Kodama of the East Tree). - Damage on entry and expend: Burn from creature entries and from spending large amounts of mana adds reach that closes games outside combat (Warstorm Surge, Teapot Slinger, Rolling Hamsphere).

Animated Army decklist

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