Turtle Power Rainbow by HawthornVine

Format: Commander

Commander: Heroes in a Half Shell

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 20

Deck overview

Heroes in a Half Shell leads a five-color Turtle, Ninja, and Mutant combat deck. The commander has haste and can immediately turn combat damage into both a card and a +1/+1 counter, giving the deck a useful value engine once attacks connect. The rest of the list expands that plan with counter doublers such as Doubling Season, Corpsejack Menace, High Score, and Ozolith, the Shattered Spire, plus combat payoffs including Raphael, the Muscle, Leatherhead, Iron Gator, and Turtle Van. The deck can produce a large evasive attack, but its pieces are expensive, its access is mostly draw-dependent, and its finish is not compact or reliably lethal against three opponents. Simic Ascendancy provides a separate long-game victory route. Interaction and protection are present but compete with development. Overall, the list is a flavorful exhibition build that generates strong board states without a dependable fast win or lockout.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Falconer
  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Arcade Cabinet
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Baxter, Fly in the Ointment
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bulwark Ox
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cowabunga!
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dimension X Pizzasaur
  • 1 Donatello, the Brains
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Folk Hero
  • 1 Foot Elite
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Germination Practicum
  • 1 Groundchuck & Dirtbag
  • 1 Heroes in a Half Shell
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Honor
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Leatherhead, Iron Gator
  • 1 Leonardo, Big Brother
  • 1 Leonardo, the Balance
  • 1 Lessons from Life
  • 1 Lita, Little Orphan Amphibian
  • 1 Make a Stand
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Michelangelo, Mutant BFF
  • 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
  • 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ninja Pizza
  • 1 Overwhelming Encounter
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Raphael, the Muscle
  • 1 Raphael, the Nightwatcher
  • 1 Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior
  • 1 Rocksteady, Mutant Marauder
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Settle the Wreckage
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Super Combo
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 TCRI Building
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Last Ronin's Technique
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 Together Forever
  • 1 Tokka & Rahzar, Unsupervised
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Turtle Power!
  • 1 Turtle Van
  • 1 Turtles in Time
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Venus, Torn Between Worlds
  • 1 Wave Goodbye