Heroes in a Half Shell by user1882482

Format: Commander

Commander: Heroes in a Half Shell

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a five-color Mutant/Ninja/Turtle tribal deck built around the +1/+1 counter theme, helmed by Heroes in a Half Shell. The commander is an aggressive value engine: haste lets it attack immediately, and its combat trigger puts counters on anything that connected and draws cards. The deck plans to grow a wide, counter-heavy board through Corpsejack Menace, High Score, Arcade Cabinet, and Level Up, then translate that size into lethal damage with Raphael, the Muscle and Leatherhead, Iron Gator. It wins almost entirely through combat and direct damage, with Shredder, Shadow Master and Fast Forward providing reach against all three opponents. There are no infinite combos; instead, the deck relies on redundant counter synergy and card flow to out-muscle the table. The Partner-Character select legends like Leonardo, the Balance and Raphael, the Muscle are lieutenants in the 99 rather than alternate commanders.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 April O'Neil, Live on the Scene
  • 1 Arcade Cabinet
  • 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 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Coin of Mastery
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Continue?
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dimension X Pizzasaur
  • 1 Donatello, the Brains
  • 1 Double Jump // Flying Kick
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Electric Seaweed
  • 1 Endless Foot Assault
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Everything Pizza
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploding Barrel
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fast Forward
  • 1 Foot Chopper
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Game Over
  • 1 Grand Coliseum
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 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 Krang, the All-Powerful
  • 1 Leatherhead, Iron Gator
  • 1 Leonardo, the Balance
  • 1 Lessons from Life
  • 1 Level Up
  • 1 Lita, Little Orphan Amphibian
  • 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
  • 1 Mole Module
  • 1 Mona Lisa, Science Geek
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Ninja Pizza
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Raphael, the Muscle
  • 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
  • 1 Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior
  • 1 Roadkill Rodney
  • 1 Rocksteady, Mutant Marauder
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Shellshock
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Special Move
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Splinter, the Mentor
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Super Combo
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Demise
  • 1 Tempestra, Dame of Games
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Together Forever
  • 1 Tokka & Rahzar, Unsupervised
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Wave Goodbye