Turtles by gadring

Format: Commander

Commander: Donatello, the Brains and Leonardo, the Balance

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color midrange combat strategy powered by partner commanders Donatello, the Brains and Leonardo, the Balance. The game plan revolves around generating creature and artifact tokens to trigger Leonardo's board-wide +1/+1 counter distribution while Donatello supplements every token creation with additional Mutagen tokens. As the team grows, high-impact beaters and damage multipliers like Raphael, the Muscle, Shredder, Shadow Master, and Heroes in a Half Shell quickly scale incoming combat damage. Leonardo's five-color activated ability provides menace, trample, and lifelink to push through blockers and out-race opposing aggression. While the deck possesses explosive combat turns and resilient recovery via high redundancy, it relies on combat steps over multiple turns to eliminate three opponents, remaining vulnerable to well-timed board wipes and fast stack-based combo decks.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 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 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 Corpsejack Menace
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dimension X Pizzasaur
• 1 Donatello, the Brains
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Endless Foot Assault
• 1 Escape Tunnel
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Foot Chopper
• 3 Forest
• 1 Game Over
• 1 Goldvein Hydra
• 1 Grand Coliseum
• 1 Guiding Hydra
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Harmonize
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Here Comes a New Hero!
• 1 Heroes in a Half Shell
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hidden Hideout
• 1 High Score
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
• 1 Island
• 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 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 Marsh Flats
• 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
• 1 Mole Module
• 1 Mona Lisa, Science Geek
• 2 Mountain
• 1 Ninja Pizza
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 2 Plains
• 1 Primordial Hydra
• 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
• 1 Raphael, the Muscle
• 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
• 1 Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior
• 1 Restorative Technique
• 1 Roadkill Rodney
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Rocksteady, Mutant Marauder
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Shellshock
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sodden Verdure
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Special Move
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Splinter, the Mentor
• 1 Steelbane Hydra
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Swift Demise
• 1 Tempestra, Dame of Games
• 1 Together Forever
• 1 Tokka & Rahzar, Unsupervised
• 1 Turtle Lair
• 1 Undercity Sewers
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Vanquish the Horde
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Vibrant Cityscape
• 1 Vigor
• 1 Voracious Hydra
• 1 Wave Goodbye
• 1 Wooded Foothills