Turtle Power! by user1318502

Format: Commander

Commander: Leonardo, the Balance and Michelangelo, the Heart

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color midrange aggro strategy centered on the partner pairing of Leonardo, the Balance and Michelangelo, the Heart. The game plan revolves around generating tokens to continuously distribute +1/+1 counters across the entire board. Michelangelo provides early pressure, guaranteed Food tokens, and targeted counters via Raid. Leonardo turns every token into a team-wide buff and provides a powerful five-color activated ability granting menace, trample, and lifelink to close out games. Synergistic payoffs like Corpsejack Menace, Heroes in a Half Shell, and All Will Be One scale board presence and direct damage quickly. While the deck boasts strong natural redundancy and resilient board rebuilding from the command zone, its reliance on combat damage and lack of universal tutors leave it susceptible to well-timed board wipes and faster combo strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorbing Man and Titania
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 April O'Neil, Live on the Scene
  • 1 Arcade Cabinet
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Baxter, Fly in the Ointment
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Biogenic Ooze
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
  • 1 Casey Jones, Jury-Rig Justiciar
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Coin of Mastery
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Donatello's Technique
  • 1 Donatello, the Brains
  • 1 Double Jump // Flying Kick
  • 1 Endless Foot Assault
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Here Comes a New Hero!
  • 1 Heroes in a Half Shell
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kid Loki
  • 1 Leader's Talent
  • 1 Leonardo, the Balance
  • 1 Level Up
  • 1 Lita, Little Orphan Amphibian
  • 1 March of the World Ooze
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Michelangelo, Mutant BFF
  • 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
  • 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
  • 1 Mighty Mutanimals
  • 1 Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Order
  • 1 Mona Lisa, Science Geek
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Ninja Pizza
  • 1 Northampton Farm
  • 1 On Wings of Gold
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Raph & Leo, Sibling Rivals
  • 1 Raphael, the Muscle
  • 1 Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rocksteady, Mutant Marauder
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Saved by the Shell
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shellshock
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sokka, Lateral Strategist
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Splinter, the Mentor
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Demise
  • 1 The Last Ronin's Technique
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 Thranduil, Sindarin Liege // Silvan Rally
  • 1 Thrumming Hivepool
  • 1 Timeless Lotus
  • 1 Turtle Van
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Wave Goodbye