diff --git a/src/3x5.ts b/src/3x5.ts
index 5ed3b9c..428c2a6 100644
--- a/src/3x5.ts
+++ b/src/3x5.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { ALL as HTML } from './lib/html';
 import { parse } from './parser';
 import { runNoctl, Vm } from './vm';
 import { AsHtml } from './words';
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ let theCard: Card = {
 
         [button "No we want to render UI" \\{noop}]
     } {
-      Since we want escapes to work, these blocks [i will] be subject to substitutions.
+      Since we want escapes to work, these blocks [i will] be subject to substitutions, maybe via a relaxed bareWordTmpl.
     } 
     # A comment
     para {
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ const debugDisplay = document.createElement("pre");
 function render() {
   const vm: Vm = {
     mode: "render",
-    commands: {},
+    commands: { ...HTML },
     output: "",
   };
   const html = renderCard(vm, theCard.code);
diff --git a/src/lib/html.ts b/src/lib/html.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..72c9263
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/html.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+import { AsHtml, Concat, TextPiece } from '../words';
+
+const htmlTagCmd =
+  (tag: string) =>
+  ({}, argv: TextPiece[]): TextPiece => {
+    const [, ...words] = argv;
+    return (
+      words
+        .map((word) => ({ html: `<${tag}>${AsHtml(word)}</${tag}>` }))
+        .reduce(Concat, null) ?? { html: "" }
+    );
+  };
+
+export const h1 = htmlTagCmd("h1");
+export const para = htmlTagCmd("p");
+export const block = htmlTagCmd("blockquote");
+
+export const ALL = {
+  h1,
+  para,
+  block,
+};