Turtle Power by Ajmls22

Format: Commander

Commander: Michelangelo, the Heart and Raphael, the Muscle

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This Gruul deck is a counter-based combat build. Michelangelo, the Heart produces a counter and Food every turn it attacks, while Mutagen tokens and Hardened Scales-style effects turn that trickle into a thick counter stack. Raphael, the Muscle is the primary payoff, doubling damage from any creature carrying counters, and Absorbing Man and Titania stacks with him for lethal swings. Food and Treasure mana smooth the curve. Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar spreads one hit across opponents, and Casey Jones plus All Will Be One function as a direct-damage backup. Raphael, the Nightwatcher is the hidden commander, adding double strike to the team. The deck wins through sustained combat rather than combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorbing Man and Titania
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Ashroot Animist
  • 1 Bear Umbra
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Epic Fight
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploding Barrel
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Falter
  • 1 Fast Forward
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Leatherhead, Iron Gator
  • 1 Level Up
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lull
  • 1 Michelangelo, Improviser
  • 1 Michelangelo, Mutant BFF
  • 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
  • 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Mutagen Man, Living Ooze
  • 1 Mutant Chain Reaction
  • 1 Ninja Pizza
  • 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pollenbright Druid
  • 1 Pyreheart Wolf
  • 1 Questing Beast
  • 1 Raphael, the Muscle
  • 1 Raphael, the Nightwatcher
  • 1 Red XIII, Proud Warrior
  • 1 Rites of Flourishing
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Shellshock
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Special Move
  • 1 Spike Weaver
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Sticky Fingers
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Strength of Will
  • 1 Super Combo
  • 1 Tale of Katara and Toph
  • 1 Tenderize
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 Thornvault Forager
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Tower Winder
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Utopia Vow
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Wolverine, Fierce Fighter
  • 1 World War Hulk