Turtle Power! Leonardo the Balance (Copy) by user8423416

Format: Commander

Commander: Leonardo, the Balance

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color aggressive synergy deck built around Leonardo, the Balance, blending +1/+1 counter distribution with versatile token generation from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe. The deck's primary game plan establishes an early board of efficient low-cost creatures and token producers such as Genghis Frog, Lita, Little Orphan Amphibian, and Donatello, the Brains. Once Leonardo enters on Turn 4 or 5, any token creation triggers a team-wide +1/+1 counter placement. The engine rapidly scales creature power via counter amplifiers like Corpsejack Menace, High Score, and Arcade Cabinet. The deck converts this accumulated power into game-ending combat steps between Turns 6 and 8, leveraging Leonardo's activated ability for trample and menace, damage doublers like Raphael, the Muscle, or one-sided sweepers like Wave Goodbye. While vulnerable to mass removal, the deck features resilient tools like Continue?, Kid Loki, and Together Forever to sustain pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ant-Man, Colony Commander
  • 1 April O'Neil, Live on the Scene
  • 1 Arcade Cabinet
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bagel and Schmear
  • 1 Baxter, Fly in the Ointment
  • 1 Bebop, Skull & Crossbones
  • 1 Big Apple, 3 a.m.
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Continue?
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cowabunga!
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dimension X Pizzasaur
  • 1 Donatello, the Brains
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Endless Foot Assault
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Everything Pizza
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Foot Chopper
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Frog Butler
  • 1 Fugitive Droid
  • 1 Game Over
  • 1 Genghis Frog
  • 1 Grand Coliseum
  • 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 Kid Loki
  • 1 Leatherhead, Iron Gator
  • 1 Leonardo, the Balance
  • 1 Level Up
  • 1 Lita, Little Orphan Amphibian
  • 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
  • 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
  • 1 Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Order
  • 1 Mona Lisa, Science Geek
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Omni-Cheese Pizza
  • 1 Ooze Spill
  • 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 Saved by the Shell
  • 1 Scavenging Ooze
  • 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 Tainted Treats
  • 1 Tempestra, Dame of Games
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Together Forever
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Wave Goodbye