The Turtles by emanvols

Format: Commander

Commander: Leonardo, the Balance and Michelangelo, the Heart

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This five-color deck is led by Leonardo, the Balance and Michelangelo, the Heart, forming a cohesive go-wide aggressive engine centered on token generation and +1/+1 counter proliferation. Early turns accelerate mana through low-cost mana dorks and fix all five colors. On Turn 2, Michelangelo hits the battlefield, attacking on subsequent turns to trigger Raid, generating Food tokens and placing +1/+1 counters. When Leonardo enters on Turn 3 or 4, every token generated triggers a team-wide +1/+1 counter boost. By Turn 5, the board reaches critical onset with power multipliers such as Raphael, the Muscle, Cathars' Crusade, or Beastmaster Ascension. The deck closes the game across Turns 6 and 7 by activating Leonardo's five-color ability for menace, trample, and lifelink, or resolving decisive overruns like Akroma's Will. Robust protection from Ripples of Potential and recurring removal via Aura Shards ensure the army survives and dominates combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Ant-Man, Colony Commander
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Panther, Wakandan King
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Continue?
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Doc Samson, Super Psychiatrist
  • 1 Donatello, Mutant Mechanic
  • 1 Donatello, the Brains
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Grand Coliseum
  • 1 Hall of Oracles
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroes in a Half Shell
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kid Loki
  • 1 Leatherhead, Iron Gator
  • 1 Leonardo, the Balance
  • 1 Lessons from Life
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Loyal Guardian
  • 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
  • 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
  • 1 Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Order
  • 1 Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor
  • 1 Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mutagen Man, Living Ooze
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Raphael, the Muscle
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Silkguard
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spider-Woman, Stunning Savior
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Splinter, the Mentor
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Surveillance Room
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Technodrome
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 The Arkenstone // Seek the Heart
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vigor