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Dark Leo & Shredder

Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle Human

Sneak {W}{B}
Attacking Ninjas you control have deathtouch.
Whenever Dark Leo & Shredder deal combat damage to a player, create a 1/1 black Ninja creature token. Then if you control five or more Ninjas, that player loses half their life, rounded up.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{W}{B}
Color identity
BW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Price
$7.03
EDHREC rank
#10078
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Dark Leo & Shredder card art
Dark Leo & Shredder doubles every life-loss trigger on the board, which means it stacks brutally with Bloodletter of Aclazotz and turns any drain effect into a clock. The four-mana price of admission is fair for an enchantment that warps combat math and punishes fetch lands, shocks, and opponent cantrips without any additional investment. Splinter, Radical Rat decks include it at over 85% — that rate says everything.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Splinter, Radical Rat

Splinter, Radical Rat

85.1% of decks · synergy 0.81

Dark Leo & Shredder shows up in 85% of Splinter, Radical Rat decks because Splinter's discard-to-deal-damage engine hits opponents for life loss that Dark Leo & Shredder immediately doubles, compressing the clock by a full turn or more every time Splinter connects.

02
Leonardo, the BalanceMichelangelo, the Heart

Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart

28.0% of decks · synergy 0.26

Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart runs Dark Leo & Shredder as a force-multiplier for the life-payment and life-loss subtheme baked into the Turtle Commander's design, where doubling incidental drain off spells and abilities converts steady attrition into a fast kill.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Dark Leo & Shredder earns its slot in any black deck that cares about life loss — fetch lands, pain lands, and Phyrexian mana costs are everywhere, and the doubling effect punishes all of them simultaneously. Outside of Commander, Dark Leo & Shredder is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but four mana for a static enchantment with no immediate board impact is a steep ask in 60-card formats where the game is often over before the doubling pays off. Commander is where this card actually lives.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Dark Leo & Shredder's doubling effect is unusual enough that there's no true budget clone, but Wound Reflection does the same job at instant-speed resolution for a higher mana cost and is worth running alongside it rather than instead of it. If the goal is simply draining opponents faster, Underworld Dreams and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse cover different angles of life loss without the doubling — functional overlap, but not a replacement.

Price Context

Current price

$7.03 mid tier

At $7.03, Dark Leo & Shredder sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a real purchase, cheap enough that a single high-synergy Commander slot justifies it easily. Given its 85%+ inclusion rate in the most popular shell, this price is likely to hold.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.