Donnie & April, Adorkable Duo
Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Human Turtle
When Donnie & April enter, choose one or both. Each mode must target a different player.
• Target player draws two cards.
• Target player returns an artifact, instant, or sorcery card from their graveyard to their hand.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal
- Price
- $0.52
- EDHREC rank
- #20516
Donnie & April, Adorkable Duo lands as a three-mana creature that generates meaningful value every time it flickers or blinks — pair it with Ghostly Flicker and you're triggering its ability on demand. The rate is real, and the ceiling in dedicated blink shells is high enough to make this an easy include.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the natural home for Donnie & April, Adorkable Duo — blink synergies, enter-the-battlefield chains, and the 100-card singleton format all let it reach critical mass in ways other formats simply don't support. Legacy and Vintage list it as legal, but three-mana creatures with incremental value have no competitive footing in either format. Oathbreaker is the one alternative worth a passing mention, where a blink-friendly planeswalker can create a similar loop environment.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Ghostly FlickerPeregrine DrakeDonnie & April, Adorkable Duo
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite blinking; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite untap of lands you control
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DisplacePeregrine DrakeDonnie & April, Adorkable Duo
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count; Infinite mana lands you control can produce; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite blinking; Infinite landfall triggers; Infinite untap of lands you control
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Illusionist's StratagemPeregrine DrakeDonnie & April, Adorkable Duo
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite blinking; Near-infinite landfall triggers; Near-infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite mana lands you control can produce; Near-infinite storm count; Near-infinite untap of lands you control
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DoppelgangDonnie & April, Adorkable Duo
Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite landfall triggers; Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand; Infinite copies of all permanents; Infinite mana permanents you control can produce
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Abdel Adrian, Gorion's WardGhostly FlickerDonnie & April, Adorkable Duo
Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite storm count; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite blinking of nonland permanents; Infinite magecraft triggers
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Current price
$0.52 bulk tier
At $0.52, Donnie & April, Adorkable Duo sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a four-of in any format or as a Commander staple without budget concern. As a licensed crossover card, print-run dynamics can be unpredictable, but at this price the entry cost is low enough that the question of value retention barely matters.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.