Donatello, Turtle Techie
Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle
When Donatello enters, if you control an artifact, draw a card.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #21080
Donatello, Turtle Techie turns every artifact you cast into card selection — a repeatable scry stapled to an evasive body is real value at four mana. The ceiling is high in artifact-dense shells; in anything else, he's just a 2/3 that doesn't do enough.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Donatello, Turtle Techie is most at home — artifact-heavy builds generate enough triggers to justify the slot, and the evasive body matters in a multiplayer game where chip damage accumulates. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, four mana for a 2/3 with a scry trigger is too slow against the format's threats, and dedicated artifact decks have faster, more explosive payoffs. Legacy and Vintage have access to the same issue amplified — the raw power level leaves Donatello irrelevant. Pauper plays at a different pace, but even there, four mana is a steep ask for a body this fragile without immediate impact. Play Donatello, Turtle Techie in Commander or leave it on the shelf.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Donatello, Turtle Techie is deep bulk — you're paying essentially nothing for a card that pulls real weight in the right artifact commander deck. Bulk rares rarely recover value unless a new commander breaks them wide open, so treat this as a gameplay pickup, not a hold.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.