ALL TURTLES by MogwaiToads

Format: Commander

Commander: Mikey & Don, Party Planners

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a deliberate Simic Turtle-tribal beatdown deck built around Mikey & Don. The commander is a card-advantage engine rather than a finisher: it lets you play lands and cast Turtle, Mutant, or Ninja spells from the top of your library and gives top-cast creatures an extra +1/+1 counter. The primary plan is to assemble a high-toughness Turtle board, then use Bedrock Tortoise to turn that toughness into combat damage. Secondary paths include cheating out large Turtles with Pattern of Rebirth/Gamekeeper, and using Ancient Adamantoise as an absorbent alternate beater. The hidden finisher is The Pride of Hull Clade, which scales in cost and draws cards equal to its toughness to end the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aegis Turtle
  • 1 Ambitious Augmenter
  • 1 Ambling Stormshell
  • 1 Ancient Adamantoise
  • 1 Angler Turtle
  • 1 Armored Whirl Turtle
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Blossoming Tortoise
  • 1 Calcite Snapper
  • 1 Chimeric Idol
  • 1 Cold-Water Snapper
  • 1 Colossal Skyturtle
  • 1 Daring Thunder-Thief
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Dragon Turtle
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 16 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Gamekeeper
  • 1 Giant Tortoise
  • 1 Giant Turtle
  • 1 Gilder Bairn
  • 1 Golden Ratio
  • 1 Hexbane Tortoise
  • 1 Horned Turtle
  • 17 Island
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Kappa Tech-Wrecker
  • 1 Lattice Library
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Meandering Towershell
  • 1 Mikey & Don, Party Planners
  • 1 Mistford River Turtle
  • 1 Ornery Tumblewagg
  • 1 Orysa, Tide Choreographer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pattern of Rebirth
  • 1 Phantasmal Shieldback
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Portent
  • 1 Primal Prayers
  • 1 Quandrix Cultivator
  • 1 Realm Seekers
  • 1 Retro-Mutation
  • 1 Riptide Turtle
  • 1 Sailors' Bane
  • 1 Scuttlegator
  • 1 Shell Shield
  • 1 Shell of the Last Kappa
  • 1 Silburlind Snapper
  • 1 Spikeshell Harrier
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 1 Switcheroo
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 The Pride of Hull Clade
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Turtle
  • 1 Thrun, Breaker of Silence
  • 1 Thunderous Snapper
  • 1 Tidepool Turtle
  • 1 Tortoise Formation
  • 1 Turtle-Duck
  • 1 Turtle-Seals
  • 1 Turtleshell Changeling
  • 1 Vintara Snapper
  • 1 Wild Shape
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Wormfang Turtle
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast