TMNT by user4443629

Format: Commander

Commander: Heroes in a Half Shell

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

Heroes in a Half Shell leads a five-color Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tribal deck focused on aggressive creature combat and compounding +1/+1 counter synergies. The game plan revolves around deploying early Mutant, Ninja, and Turtle threats, casting the commander to leverage its native haste, vigilance, menace, and trample, and connecting across multiple opponents to draw cards and enlarge the board. Mid-game turns scale board power exponentially through counter doublers like Corpsejack Menace, token armies from Sally Pride, Lioness Leader, and asymmetric damage amplification from Raphael, the Muscle and Shredder, Shadow Master. While the deck features powerful tribal synergy and one-sided blowouts via Wave Goodbye, its primary vulnerability stems from an exceptionally lean 26-land mana base that can struggle to assemble all five colors on curve. Once online around Turn 6, the deck presents overwhelming combat damage that closes out the table within two turn cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 April O'Neil, Human Element
  • 1 Arcade Cabinet
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armaggon, Future Shark
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bespoke Bō
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Casey & Raph, Hotheads
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Continue?
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cowabunga!
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Death in the Family
  • 1 Donatello, Rad Scientist
  • 1 Donatello, the Brains
  • 1 Donnie & April, Adorkable Duo
  • 1 Double Jump // Flying Kick
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Game Over
  • 1 Grand Coliseum
  • 1 Groundchuck & Dirtbag
  • 1 Grounded for Life
  • 1 Hard-Won Jitte
  • 1 Heroes in a Half Shell
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Leatherhead, Iron Gator
  • 1 Leatherhead, Swamp Stalker
  • 1 Leo's Guidance
  • 1 Leonardo, Worldly Warrior
  • 1 Leonardo, the Balance
  • 1 Lessons from Life
  • 1 Level Up
  • 1 Make Your Move
  • 1 Michelangelo, On the Scene
  • 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
  • 1 Mighty Mutanimals
  • 1 Mikey & Mona, Mutant Sitters
  • 1 Mona Lisa, Ever Adaptable
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mutagen Man, Living Ooze
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 New Generation's Technique
  • 1 Ninja Pizza
  • 1 Novel Nunchaku
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pizza Face, Gastromancer
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Quintessential Katana
  • 1 Raphael, Tag Team Tough
  • 1 Raphael, the Muscle
  • 1 Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior
  • 1 Retro-Mutation
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sally Pride, Lioness Leader
  • 1 Saved by the Shell
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Special Move
  • 1 Splinter & Leo, Father & Son
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Splinter, Aging Champion
  • 1 Splinter, the Mentor
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 1 Study the Classics
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Super Combo
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Demise
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 Tokka & Rahzar, Unsupervised
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Turtle Power!
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Wave Goodbye
  • 1 Weather Maker
  • 1 West Wind Avatar