hihs

Format: Commander

Commander: Heroes in a Half Shell

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

Heroes in a Half Shell leads a five-color midrange deck centered on Mutant, Ninja, and Turtle tribal synergies and aggressive +1/+1 counter scaling. The deck spends early turns developing its five-color mana base using artifacts and land ramp before deploying its commander on Turn 5. Thanks to native haste, vigilance, trample, and menace, Heroes in a Half Shell attacks immediately to distribute counters and draw cards upon dealing combat damage. In the midgame, force multipliers such as Raphael, the Muscle and Shredder, Shadow Master amplify damage output, while asymmetric sweepers like Wave Goodbye clear opposing blockers. The deck features strong combat inevitability and resilient recovery options through graveyard return spells, though it relies on standard multi-turn combat rotations and lacks instant-speed stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Action News Crew
• 1 Arcade Cabinet
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Baxter, Fly in the Ointment
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
• 1 Casey Jones, Jury-Rig Justiciar
• 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 Dark Leo & Shredder
• 1 Dimension X
• 1 Donatello, the Brains
• 1 Double Jump // Flying Kick
• 1 Endless Foot Assault
• 1 Everything Pizza
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exploding Barrel
• 1 Featherbrained Filcher
• 9 Forest
• 1 Game Over
• 1 Grand Coliseum
• 1 Guac & Marshmallow Pizza
• 1 Hamato Guardian Stance
• 1 Heroes in a Half Shell
• 1 High Score
• 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
• 3 Island
• 1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
• 1 Leatherhead, Iron Gator
• 1 Leonardo, the Balance
• 1 Lessons from Life
• 1 Level Up
• 1 Make Your Move
• 1 Mechanized Ninja Cavalry
• 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
• 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
• 1 Mona Lisa, Science Geek
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Mouser Attack!
• 1 Mouser Foundry
• 1 Mutagen Man, Living Ooze
• 1 Ninja Pizza
• 1 Novel Nunchaku
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 5 Plains
• 1 Purple Dragon Punks
• 1 Quintessential Katana
• 1 Raphael, the Muscle
• 1 Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Rocksteady, Mutant Marauder
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Shellshock
• 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
• 1 Skateboard
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Special Move
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Splinter, the Mentor
• 1 Steelbane Hydra
• 1 Super Combo
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swift Demise
• 1 Technodrome
• 1 Tempestra, Dame of Games
• 1 Thriving Grove
• 1 Together Forever
• 1 Turtle Lair
• 1 Turtle Van
• 1 Vanquish the Horde
• 1 Vigor
• 1 Voracious Hydra
• 1 Wave Goodbye