Turtles by user1363613

Format: Commander

Commander: Leonardo, the Balance and Michelangelo, the Heart

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This five-color Commander deck is led by the partner pairing of Leonardo, the Balance and Michelangelo, the Heart, creating an integrated midrange token and +1/+1 counter engine. The primary game plan curves Michelangelo into play on Turn 2, followed by Leonardo on Turn 4. Attacking with Michelangelo triggers Raid in the postcombat main phase, creating a Food token that immediately activates Leonardo to distribute +1/+1 counters across your entire board. The deck scales this board state using amplifiers such as Corpsejack Menace, Doubling Season, High Score, and Raphael, the Muscle. On Turn 6, activating Leonardo's full five-color ability gives the entire team trample, menace, and lifelink, closing out the table through overwhelming combat damage over two response cycles. The list includes solid utility and flavor-rich interaction like Wave Goodbye and Trouble in Pairs while maintaining resilient creature-based board states.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent Bishop, Man in Black
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Baxter, Fly in the Ointment
  • 1 Big Apple, 3 a.m.
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Coin of Mastery
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Continue?
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cytoplast Manipulator
  • 1 Dark Leo & Shredder
  • 1 Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration
  • 1 Donatello, the Brains
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploding Barrel
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Foot Elite
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Grand Coliseum
  • 1 Heroes in a Half Shell
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Karai's Technique
  • 1 Leonardo, the Balance
  • 1 Level Up
  • 1 Make Your Move
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Michelangelo, Improviser
  • 1 Michelangelo, Mutant BFF
  • 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
  • 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
  • 1 Mona Lisa, Science Geek
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mutagen Man, Living Ooze
  • 1 Mutant Chain Reaction
  • 1 New Generation's Technique
  • 1 Novel Nunchaku
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Raphael, the Muscle
  • 1 Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Retro-Mutation
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Settle the Wreckage
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shellshock
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Shredder, Unrelenting
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Species Specialist
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Splinter, the Mentor
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Demise
  • 1 Sword of Sinew and Steel
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 The Last Ronin's Technique
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Triskelion
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Turtle Van
  • 1 Umezawa's Jitte
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Wave Goodbye