Certified Turtle by SCJohnson

Format: Commander

Commander: Leonardo, the Balance and Michelangelo, the Heart

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a five-color +1/+1-counter and token midrange deck. It develops a wide board through Foods, Mutagens, Treasures, and creature tokens, then multiplies counters with Doubling Season, The Earth Crystal, Corpsejack Menace. Michelangelo, the Heart is the early engine: it attacks, then makes a Food and grows a creature. Leonardo, the Balance rewards each token turn and can give the board menace, trample, and lifelink when enough mana is available. The hidden commander is Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Order, which turns counter placement into steady cards. Wins come from a large countered attack, Triumph of the Hordes, All Will Be One, or pressure from Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers, and Shredder, Shadow Master. No deterministic infinite combo is present.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Arcade Cabinet
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Basking Broodscale
  • 1 Baxter, Fly in the Ointment
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damning Verdict
  • 1 Doc Samson, Super Psychiatrist
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fractal Tender
  • 1 Genghis Frog
  • 1 Germination Practicum
  • 1 Grand Coliseum
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Kid Loki
  • 1 Koma, World-Eater
  • 1 Leatherhead, Iron Gator
  • 1 Leonardo, the Balance
  • 1 Michelangelo, Mutant BFF
  • 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
  • 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
  • 1 Mikey & Don, Party Planners
  • 1 Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Order
  • 1 Mona Lisa, Science Geek
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Ninja Pizza
  • 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
  • 1 Raphael, the Muscle
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sally Pride, Lioness Leader
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Slash, Reptile Rampager
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Treats
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian
  • 1 Together Forever
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Warden of the Grove
  • 1 Wave Goodbye
  • 1 Wildgrowth Archaic
  • 1 Worldly Tutor