turtles by cp12

Format: Commander

Commander: Heroes in a Half Shell

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a five-color Mutant/Ninja/Turtle tribal deck built around +1/+1 counters and token generation, helmed by Heroes in a Half Shell. The commander is a 5/5 with haste, vigilance, menace, and trample that grows a +1/+1 counter and draws a card every time a Mutant, Ninja, or Turtle connects - making it both the deck's primary draw engine and a fast clock. The 99 is a dense web of counter doublers and adders (Corpsejack Menace, High Score, Vigor, Arcade Cabinet, Big Mother Mouser), token generators (Donatello, the Brains, Splinter, the Mentor, Endless Foot Assault), and combat payoffs (Leatherhead, Iron Gator, Raphael, the Muscle, Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute, Shredder, Shadow Master). The deck wins through overwhelming combat damage, with Casey Jones's drain and Shredder's half-life trigger as alternate closers. It is a midrange value deck with no fast combo - it grinds, grows, and overwhelms.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Aggro Amalgam
  • 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 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 Heralds of the Shredder
  • 1 Here Comes a New Hero!
  • 1 Heroes in a Half Shell
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Humongous Fungus
  • 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 Slash Clone
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Special Move
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Splinter, the Mentor
  • 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, Terrible Twos
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Wave Goodbye