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Don & Leo, Problem Solvers

Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle

Vigilance
At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target artifact you control and up to one target creature you control. Then return them to the battlefield under their owners' control.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{W/U}{W/U}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
rare
Set
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Price
$0.40
EDHREC rank
#16134
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Don & Leo, Problem Solvers card art
Don & Leo, Problem Solvers lands as a repeatable removal engine that scales with your artifact and creature count — the payoff is real, but it costs you a tap and a sacrifice from Infinite Guideline Station to get there. At three mana for the commander slot, that upfront investment pays off the moment you're looping sacrifices for value.

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

Commander is where Don & Leo, Problem Solvers does its best work — sacrifice and artifact synergies are deep enough in the format to support the engine, and the commander slot means you always have access to it. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it competes with faster, more focused sacrifice payoffs and rarely wins that comparison. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power density to make almost any synergy piece functional, but Don & Leo is too slow and too build-around for those formats' typical gameplans. Standard is legal but unlikely to be a priority pickup unless a sacrifice shell emerges around it.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.40 bulk tier

At $0.40, Don & Leo, Problem Solvers sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a throw-in, and the price reflects its narrow build-around nature rather than any lack of ceiling. If a dedicated sacrifice or artifact Commander deck pushes it into wider play, that floor could move, but right now it's a free include for the right list.

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