turtle by user1045093

Format: Commander

Commander: Leonardo, the Balance and Raphael, the Muscle

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color midrange combat strategy commanded by Leonardo, the Balance and Raphael, the Muscle. The core engine generates tokens to trigger Leonardo, placing +1/+1 counters across your creature board. Raphael then acts as a force multiplier by doubling all damage dealt by creatures with counters on them. The deck curves reliably into its commanders on Turns 4 and 5, using Raphael's entering Mutagen token to immediately distribute counters. On Turn 6, the deck initiates heavy combat pressure, which scales further with counter amplifiers like Corpsejack Menace and trample granting from Leonardo's five-color activated ability. A robust suite of countermagic, spot exile, and asymmetric board resets like Wave Goodbye keeps opposing threats in check while safeguarding your board. The deck reliably closes out games around Turn 8 through overwhelming double-damage combat steps.

Decklist (96 cards)

• 1 Absorb
• 1 Acidic Slime
• 1 Aetherize
• 1 Arcade Cabinet
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Baxter, Fly in the Ointment
• 1 Bebop, Skull & Crossbones
• 1 Big Apple, 3 a.m.
• 1 Big Mother Mouser
• 1 Biogenic Ooze
• 1 Bootleggers' Stash
• 1 Brightmare
• 1 Burrog Banemaker
• 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Condemn
• 1 Continue?
• 1 Corpsejack Menace
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Daring Piracy
• 1 Double Jump // Flying Kick
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Emeria Angel
• 1 Escape Tunnel
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exploding Barrel
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Farewell
• 1 Flicker of Fate
• 1 Foot Chopper
• 4 Forest
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Game Over
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Growth Curve
• 1 Harmonize
• 1 Hidden Hideout
• 1 High Score
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
• 2 Island
• 1 Jace, Arcane Strategist
• 1 Leatherhead, Iron Gator
• 1 Leonardo, the Balance
• 1 Lessons from Life
• 1 Level Up
• 1 Masterful Flourish
• 2 Mountain
• 1 Negate
• 1 Ninja Pizza
• 1 Panharmonicon
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 2 Plains
• 1 Quandrix Charm
• 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
• 1 Raphael, the Muscle
• 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
• 1 Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sodden Verdure
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Snare
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Super Combo
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Swift Demise
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1 Territorial Aetherkite
• 1 Thriving Bluff
• 1 Thriving Grove
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Vibrant Cityscape
• 1 Vigor
• 1 Voracious Hydra
• 1 Wave Goodbye