Half-Shell Economics by KevKaru

Format: Commander

Commander: Leonardo, the Balance and Raphael, the Muscle

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck executes a five-color go-wide creature strategy powered by partner commanders Leonardo, the Balance and Raphael, the Muscle. The game plan revolves around generating creature and artifact tokens to trigger Leonardo's ability, distributing +1/+1 counters across the entire board. Once the board is established, Raphael doubles all damage dealt by modified creatures, converting modest token swarms into overwhelming lethal attacks. High-synergy permanents like Doubling Season, Cathars' Crusade, and Adrix and Nev, Twincasters compound this scaling effect. Exceptional defensive instants like Teferi's Protection, Clever Concealment, and Heroic Intervention shield the army against board wipes. When opponents present blockers, evasion enablers such as Herald of Secret Streams, Champion of Lambholt, or Leonardo's five-color overrun ability ensure combat damage connects directly to close the game on Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Brokers Ascendancy
  • 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conclave Mentor
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damning Verdict
  • 1 Danny Pink
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Donatello, the Brains
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Esix, Fractal Bloom
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fathom Mage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Gavony Township
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Guide of Souls
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Leatherhead, Iron Gator
  • 1 Leonardo, the Balance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 March of the Multitudes
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mutational Advantage
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raphael, the Muscle
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Zagoth Triome