What should you cut from the Turtle Power! precon?
Turtle Power! is the Heroes in a Half Shell precon, released on March 6, 2026. We ran the stock deck through EDHTuner at bracket 2, the same check the tool runs on a deck you paste.
EDHTuner names no card to cut from this deck. EDHREC's data says other Heroes in a Half Shell decks often play the cards that looked weakest, so it leaves them in.
The deck is short on ramp and card advantage. The tool suggests cards to add there. This page shows no adds.
How this deck works
Heroes in a Half Shell leads a +1/+1 counters deck that also leans on combat damage. Its main plan to win is to go wide and attack. Its 100 cards include 39 lands, 9 ramp, 10 card advantage and 11 targeted disruption.
What bracket is it?
By Wizards' bracket rules, the Turtle Power! precon is bracket 1 or higher. It runs no Game Changers, mass land denial, extra-turn cards or two-card infinite combos.
The rules also ask how fast a deck wins and what it's built to do, and that part is for you and your table. The bracket checker page says how EDHTuner reads each rule.
How its counts compare
Each row counts the cards that do that job. The medians come from 18,414 public Commander decks on Moxfield, collected in July and November 2026. Moxfield puts 4,822 of them at brackets 1 and 2 and 6,057 at bracket 3. The deck numbers page says what each row counts. See how many lands Commander decks run, from the decks we counted.
| Turtle Power! | EDHTuner aims for | Median, brackets 1-2 | Median, bracket 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lands | 39 | Playtested in the tool | 36 | 35 |
| Ramp | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Card advantage | 10 | 12 | 9 | 10 |
| Targeted disruption | 11 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
| Mass disruption | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Protection | 0 | No set number | 2 | 3 |
Mass disruption: 1 covers a deck built on its own creatures.
Themes EDHTuner finds in it
EDHTuner reads a deck's themes from the rules text on its cards. These are the themes it shows for Turtle Power!.
- Combat damage
- +1/+1 counters
All 100 cards
These are the precon's cards, grouped by what EDHTuner counts them as. One card shows in more than one group, because it fits more than one of them.
Show the 100 cards
Commander
| Heroes in a Half Shell |
Lands, 39 cards
| Card | Copies |
|---|---|
| Ash Barrens | 1 |
| Big Apple, 3 a.m. | 1 |
| Cinder Glade | 1 |
| City of Brass | 1 |
| Command Tower | 1 |
| Dragonskull Summit | 1 |
| Escape Tunnel | 1 |
| Evolving Wilds | 1 |
| Exotic Orchard | 1 |
| Fabled Passage | 1 |
| Forest | 4 |
| Grand Coliseum | 1 |
| Hidden Hideout | 1 |
| Hinterland Harbor | 1 |
| Island | 2 |
| Mountain | 2 |
| Path of Ancestry | 1 |
| Plains | 2 |
| Rain-Slicked Copse | 1 |
| Rootbound Crag | 1 |
| Smoldering Marsh | 1 |
| Sodden Verdure | 1 |
| Spire Garden | 1 |
| Sunken Hollow | 1 |
| Swamp | 2 |
| Thriving Grove | 1 |
| Thriving Isle | 1 |
| Thriving Moor | 1 |
| Turtle Lair | 1 |
| Undergrowth Stadium | 1 |
| Vernal Fen | 1 |
| Vibrant Cityscape | 1 |
Ramp, 9 cards
| Arcane Signet | Chromatic Lantern | Coin of Mastery |
| Cultivate | Everything Pizza | Exploding Barrel |
| Lessons from Life | Mona Lisa, Science Geek | Sol Ring |
Card advantage, 10 cards
| April O'Neil, Live on the Scene | Bebop, Skull & Crossbones | Foot Chopper |
| Harmonize | Here Comes a New Hero! | Heroes in a Half Shell |
| High Score | Level Up | Rat King, Pale Piper |
| Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior |
Targeted disruption, 11 cards
| Acidic Slime | Assassin's Trophy | Dimension X Pizzasaur |
| Double Jump // Flying Kick | Electric Seaweed | Shellshock |
| Special Move | Steelbane Hydra | Super Combo |
| Swift Demise | Voracious Hydra |
Mass disruption, 4 cards
| Blasphemous Act | Game Over | Vanquish the Horde |
| Wave Goodbye |
Everything else, 27 cards
| Arcade Cabinet | Baxter, Fly in the Ointment | Big Mother Mouser |
| Biogenic Ooze | Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute | Continue? |
| Corpsejack Menace | Donatello, the Brains | Endless Foot Assault |
| Fast Forward | Irma, Part-Time Mutant | Krang, the All-Powerful |
| Leatherhead, Iron Gator | Leonardo, the Balance | Lita, Little Orphan Amphibian |
| Michelangelo, the Heart | Mole Module | Ninja Pizza |
| Raphael, the Muscle | Roadkill Rodney | Rocksteady, Mutant Marauder |
| Shredder, Shadow Master | Splinter, the Mentor | Tempestra, Dame of Games |
| Together Forever | Tokka & Rahzar, Unsupervised | Vigor |
Run it yourself
The tool opens in a new tab and runs the stock deck at bracket 2. There you also get the cards it would add.
The Heroes in a Half Shell page shows what public Heroes in a Half Shell decks on Moxfield run. The guide to cutting cards shows how EDHTuner picks cuts. The precons page has every other precon EDHTuner checked.
Checked on November 9, 2026 with EDHTuner v0.248.0. The tool reads EDHREC's data each time it runs, and that data changes, so it can name different cuts than this page does. The precon's cards come from MTGJSON (MIT license). Card data comes from Scryfall and play data from EDHREC.