Turtles by ZazuMaki

Format: Commander

Commander: Leonardo, the Balance and Michelangelo, the Heart

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color midrange aggro strategy centered on the partner pair Leonardo, the Balance and Michelangelo, the Heart. The primary game plan revolves around leveraging Michelangelo's Raid ability to create Food tokens and place counters, which repeatedly triggers Leonardo to distribute +1/+1 counters across your entire board. The deck amplifies this counter engine using force multipliers like Hardened Scales, Corpsejack Menace, and Deepglow Skate. Card advantage is maintained through synergy pieces such as Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Order and Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior. The deck closes out games around Turn 6–7 by converting tall and wide creature boards into lethal attacks via Triumph of the Hordes, Raphael, the Muscle, Wave Goodbye, or Leonardo's five-color combat keyword activation. While resilient against destruction sweepers via Inspiring Call, the deck remains vulnerable to exile effects and lacks stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetheric Amplifier
  • 1 Anger
  • 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 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
  • 1 Celestial Flare
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Coin of Mastery
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Continue?
  • 1 Cool but Rude
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Crowned Ceratok
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Dimension X Pizzasaur
  • 1 Donatello, the Brains
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Frog Butler
  • 1 Genghis Frog
  • 1 Grand Coliseum
  • 1 Hard-Won Jitte
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroes in a Half Shell
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
  • 1 Leonardo, the Balance
  • 1 Level Up
  • 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
  • 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
  • 1 Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Order
  • 1 Mona Lisa, Science Geek
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mutant Town
  • 1 New Generation's Technique
  • 1 Ninja Pizza
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
  • 1 Raphael, the Muscle
  • 1 Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Rocksteady, Mutant Marauder
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Saved by the Shell
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Super Combo
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Demise
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Together Forever
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Turtle Van
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Uneasy Alliance
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Venus, Torn Between Worlds
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Wail of War
  • 1 Wave Goodbye