TURTLE CLUB v3 Test Upgrades Next by Big_Timin42

Format: Commander

Commander: Leonardo, the Balance and Michelangelo, the Heart

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This five-color deck pairs Leonardo, the Balance and Michelangelo, the Heart to build a synergistic midrange engine centered on +1/+1 counters and token generation. The primary game plan accelerates into a compact infinite combo using Rosie Cotton of South Lane alongside Scurry Oak or Basking Broodscale. When a token enters, Rosie places a counter on the creature, which in turn creates another token, looping infinitely to generate an arbitrarily large creature and infinite tokens. Supported by dense 1-drop mana acceleration, cheap creature tutors, and robust protection spells like Grand Abolisher and Heroic Intervention, the deck routinely threatens a decisive lethal state on Turn 4 and closes combat on Turn 5. If the combo is disrupted, the deck pivots into an asymmetric combat engine, leveraging counter doublers, direct burn from Shalai and Hallar, and unblockable evasion from Herald of Secret Streams to overwhelm the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Basking Broodscale
  • 1 Baylen, the Haymaker
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brokers Ascendancy
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Danny Pink
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Donatello, Gadget Master
  • 1 Donatello, the Brains
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Frog Butler
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Score
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Leader's Talent
  • 1 Leonardo, the Balance
  • 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
  • 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
  • 1 Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Order
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mutational Advantage
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scurry Oak
  • 1 Shalai and Hallar
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere Grid
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor