Turtle Power by user8819616

Format: Commander

Commander: Leonardo, the Balance

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color midrange strategy built around Leonardo, the Balance and a kindred core of Mutant, Ninja, and Turtle creatures. It focuses on combining token generation with team-wide +1/+1 counters. Early turns focus on ramping and establishing token engines like Michelangelo, the Heart or April O'Neil, Live on the Scene. Once Leonardo is on the battlefield, every token creation event distributes counters across your entire army. The mid-to-late game accelerates through counter doublers such as Corpsejack Menace and Doubling Season, culminating in decisive combat steps powered by Leonardo's {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} activation to grant menace, trample, and lifelink. While the deck lacks fast mana and dedicated stax pieces, it leverages strong board synergy, high power-toughness scaling, and asymmetric sweepers like Wave Goodbye to overwhelm opponents through combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 April O'Neil, Hacktivist
  • 1 April O'Neil, Live on the Scene
  • 1 Arcade Cabinet
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armaggon, Future Shark
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Baxter, Fly in the Ointment
  • 1 Big Apple, 3 a.m.
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Continue?
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dark Leo & Shredder
  • 1 Dimension X Pizzasaur
  • 1 Donatello's Technique
  • 1 Donatello, the Brains
  • 1 Double Jump // Flying Kick
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Game Over
  • 1 Grand Coliseum
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Heroes in a Half Shell
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 2 Island
  • 1 It'll Quench Ya!
  • 1 Leader's Talent
  • 1 Leatherhead, Iron Gator
  • 1 Leonardo, the Balance
  • 1 Lessons from Life
  • 1 Level Up
  • 1 Lita, Little Orphan Amphibian
  • 1 Methods of the Mighty
  • 1 Michelangelo, Game Master
  • 1 Michelangelo, Mutant BFF
  • 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 New Generation's Technique
  • 1 Ninja Pizza
  • 1 Ooze Spill
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Raphael, the Muscle
  • 1 Raphael, the Nightwatcher
  • 1 Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Roadkill Rodney
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Shellshock
  • 1 Shredder's Technique
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Splinter, the Mentor
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Super Combo
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Together Forever
  • 1 Tokka & Rahzar, Unsupervised
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Turtle Van
  • 1 Turtles Forever
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Wave Goodbye