Animated Army Upgrade Guide

During your turn, Bello animates your non-Equipment artifacts and non-Aura enchantments with mana value four or greater. Prioritize four-plus-mana permanents that already provide ramp, cards, or interaction so they remain useful when Bello is absent.

Ramp during the first two turns, cast Bello once a four-plus-mana artifact or enchantment is ready, then attack for cards while those permanents are indestructible. Avoid committing every payoff into a board wipe and rebuild with value permanents.

• Utopia Sprawl

  One-mana ramp that becomes a 4/4

  £2
• Wild Growth

  Same as above on green sources

  £1
• Song of the Dryads

  Removal that becomes a beater

  £3
• Overgrowth

  Two mana per turn from a single land

  £2

• Sylvan Library

  Card selection engine

  £25
• Garruk's Uprising

  Cards and trample for Bello's animated army

  £2
• Enchantress's Presence

  Draw on every enchantment

  £8
• Unnatural Growth

  Large enchantment and combat finisher

  £6

• The Great Henge

  Ramp and cards from a permanent Bello can animate

  £40
• Sanctum Weaver

  Green analogue of Serra's Sanctum on a body

  £15
• Portal to Phyrexia

  Removal and a late-game reanimation engine

  £25
• Craterhoof Behemoth

  One-shot finisher for the wide board

  £25

• Low-impact creatures

  Replace with four-plus-mana artifacts or enchantments Bello animates

• High-cost single-target removal

  Beast Within and Nature's Claim carry more weight

• Sol Ring alternatives above 3 mana

  Stick to 2-mana rocks that Bello also animates

• Situational combat tricks

  Prefer permanents that do the same job on their own turn