Heroes In a Half Shell by Garultur

Format: Commander

Commander: Heroes in a Half Shell

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color aggressive midrange strategy piloted by Heroes in a Half Shell. It curves out with low-cost Mutant, Ninja, and Turtle creatures to establish early board presence and fix mana. Once the commander lands on Turn 5, its haste, vigilance, menace, and trample allow it to immediately attack, placing +1/+1 counters on attacking creatures and drawing cards whenever they connect with players. The deck converts this steady card advantage and growing power into decisive lethality on Turn 6 using explosive finishers like Shredder, Shadow Master, Raphael, the Muscle, and Corpsejack Menace. An evasive alpha strike on Turn 7 closes out the game, often enabled by Wave Goodbye or Baxter, Fly in the Ointment. Resilient protection spells such as Heroic Intervention and Continue? ensure the squad survives opposing sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 April O'Neil, Live on the Scene
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Baxter, Fly in the Ointment
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bebop, Skull & Crossbones
  • 1 Big Apple, 3 a.m.
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boss Uramon, Shadow's Reach
  • 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Continue?
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cowabunga!
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dimension X Pizzasaur
  • 1 Donatello, the Brains
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eagle's Rescue
  • 1 Endless Foot Assault
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Everything Pizza
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exorcise
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heroes in a Half Shell
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
  • 1 Krang, the All-Powerful
  • 1 Leonardo, the Balance
  • 1 Lessons from Life
  • 1 Lita, Little Orphan Amphibian
  • 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
  • 1 Mona Lisa, Science Geek
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ninja of the Hand
  • 1 Ooze Spill
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Raphael, the Muscle
  • 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
  • 1 Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior
  • 1 Roadkill Rodney
  • 1 Rocksteady, Mutant Marauder
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Saved by the Shell
  • 1 Shark Shredder, Killer Clone
  • 1 Shellshock
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Special Move
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Splinter, the Mentor
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Tokka & Rahzar, Unsupervised
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Turtle Van
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Wave Goodbye