Turtle power dude by Crabworld

Format: Commander

Commander: Heroes in a Half Shell

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color +1/+1 counters aggro-midrange build centered around Heroes in a Half Shell. The strategy revolves around ramping through early turns with 2-to-3 mana rocks and land ramp to fix all five colors. Once the commander enters on Turn 5, its haste, menace, trample, and vigilance allow it to immediately generate card advantage and grow larger each combat step. In subsequent turns, the deck deploys high-synergy +1/+1 counter doublers and damage amplifiers like Raphael, the Muscle, Corpsejack Menace, and Leatherhead, Iron Gator to rapidly present lethal board states. Defense is supplemented by efficient protection spells such as Heroic Intervention and Inspiring Call, while asymmetric wipes like Wave Goodbye clear the board of non-counter creatures for lethal alpha strikes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Additive Evolution
  • 1 Aisha of Sparks and Smoke
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcade Cabinet
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Blitzball
  • 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Coin of Mastery
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Embrace the Paradox
  • 1 Exploding Barrel
  • 1 Fast Forward
  • 1 Ferrafor, Young Yew
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Heroes in a Half Shell
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hot Dog Cart
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Iroh, Grand Lotus
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Knight of Wundagore
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Lakeshore Apothecary
  • 1 Lasting Tarfire
  • 1 Leatherhead, Iron Gator
  • 1 Leela, Sevateem Warrior
  • 1 Leonardo, the Balance
  • 1 Lessons from Life
  • 1 Level Up
  • 1 Michelangelo, Mutant BFF
  • 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Murmuring Volume
  • 1 Nasty Little Rabbit
  • 1 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Pick Your Poison
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Raph & Leo, Sibling Rivals
  • 1 Raphael, the Muscle
  • 1 Raphael, the Nightwatcher
  • 1 Ravenhill Flock
  • 1 Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior
  • 1 Red Hulk
  • 1 Rosa, Resolute White Mage
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Saved by the Shell
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Sharktocrab
  • 1 Shimmer of Possibility
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sonic the Hedgehog
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Sunbird Standard // Sunbird Effigy
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Tend the Sprigs
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Second Doctor
  • 1 Turtles Forever
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vikya, Scorching Stalwart
  • 1 Vrestin, Menoptra Leader
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wave Goodbye
  • 1 Wild Hypothesis