Dark Leo by user9172021

Format: Commander

Creator: user9172021

Commander: Dark Leo & Shredder

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This Orzhov aggro deck is an exhibition build centered on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe, led by Dark Leo & Shredder. The primary strategy focuses on deploying low-curve Ninjas and Rats, leveraging the commander's low casting cost to establish early combat pressure. Attacking Ninjas gain deathtouch under Dark Leo, ensuring favorable trades and forcing through combat damage to create 1/1 Ninja tokens. Once the board reaches five Ninjas around Turn 6, Dark Leo's triggered ability halves defending players' life totals upon combat connection, turning incremental chip damage into a rapid clock. While the deck features flavorful hand disruption from entering Rats and solid spot removal, it lacks explosive mana ramp, stack interaction, and tutors. It relies on consistent turn-by-turn combat execution, evasion tools like Escape Tunnel and Turtle Lair, and midgame haymakers like Shredder, Shadow Master to close out the game over several attack cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adamant Will
  • 1 Anchovy & Banana Pizza
  • 1 April O'Neil, Kunoichi Trainee
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Blightbelly Rat
  • 1 Burglar Rat
  • 1 Chrome Dome
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cryptic Caves
  • 1 Dark Leo & Shredder
  • 1 Death in the Family
  • 1 Dimensional Exile
  • 1 Endless Foot Assault
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Foot Chopper
  • 1 Foot Elite
  • 1 Foot Headquarters
  • 1 Foot Mystic
  • 1 Foot Ninjas
  • 1 Grounded for Life
  • 1 Henchbots
  • 1 Hidden Grotto
  • 1 Jennika, Bad Apple Big Sister
  • 1 Karai's Technique
  • 1 Karai, Future of the Foot
  • 1 Karametra's Blessing
  • 1 Leonardo, Big Brother
  • 1 Leonardo, Leader in Blue
  • 1 Lord Skitter's Butcher
  • 1 Make Your Move
  • 1 Mighty Mutanimals
  • 1 Mukotai Ambusher
  • 1 Nezumi Informant
  • 1 Nezumi Prowler
  • 1 Ninja Teen
  • 1 Oroku Saki, Shredder Rising
  • 1 Orzhov Locket
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Paramecia Coloniex
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Practiced Tactics
  • 1 Quintessential Katana
  • 1 Rancid Rats
  • 1 Rank Rat
  • 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
  • 1 Rat King, Verminister
  • 1 Rat Out
  • 1 Ravenous Rats
  • 1 Refuse to Yield
  • 1 Resolute Strike
  • 1 Revenge of the Rats
  • 1 Roadkill Rodney
  • 1 Shark Shredder, Killer Clone
  • 1 Shredder's Armor
  • 1 Shredder's Revenge
  • 1 Shredder's Technique
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Shredder, Unrelenting
  • 1 Skateboard
  • 1 Splinter, Hamato Yoshi
  • 1 Splinter, the Mentor
  • 1 Stomped by the Foot
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Demise
  • 1 Technodrome
  • 1 The Last Ronin's Technique
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Throatseeker
  • 1 Tunnel Rats
  • 1 Turncoat Kunoichi
  • 1 Turtle Lair
  • 1 Uneasy Alliance
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Weather Maker
  • 1 Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion