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I Like Turtles
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Commander

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Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

As long as Archelos is tapped, other permanents enter tapped. As long as Archelos is untapped, other permanents enter untapped.

Creature
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic (cmr) 268

Commander

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Instant

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Absorb Identity

Return target creature to its owner's hand. You may have Shapeshifters you control become copies of that creature until end of turn.

Instant
Absorb Identity (khm) 383
Aetherspouts

For each attacking creature, its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Instant
Aetherspouts (m15) 44
Bladebrand

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Bladebrand (m20) 86
Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Growth Spiral (rna) 178
Murder

Destroy target creature.

Instant
Murder (m20) 109
Naturalize

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Naturalize (gtc) 127
Plummet

Destroy target creature with flying.

Instant
Plummet (m12) 187
Return to Nature

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard.

Instant
Return to Nature (war) 175

Instant

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (c20) 237
Birthing Boughs

{4}, {T}: Create a 2/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It has every creature type.)

Artifact
Birthing Boughs (plst) MH1-221
Dimir Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Artifact
Dimir Signet (gk1) 22
Golgari Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Artifact
Golgari Signet (gk1) 73
Icon of Ancestry

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {3}, {T}: Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card of the chosen type from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Artifact
Icon of Ancestry (m20) 229
Maskwood Nexus

Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. {3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)

Artifact
Maskwood Nexus (khm) 240
Simic Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Artifact
Simic Signet (gk2) 130
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (c19) 221
Springleaf Drum

{T}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Springleaf Drum (bng) 162

Artifact

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Land

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Botanical Sanctum

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Botanical Sanctum (otj) 267
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (eld) 333
Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (c20) 270
Dimir Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dimir Guildgate (grn) 245
Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dismal Backwater (m20) 245
Festering Gulch

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Festering Gulch (otj) 257
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (bfz) 273
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (iko) 272
Foul Orchard

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Foul Orchard (rix) 188
Golgari Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Golgari Guildgate (grn) 248
Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (gk1) 74
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (bfz) 259
Jungle Hollow

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Jungle Hollow (m20) 248
Jwar Isle Refuge

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Jwar Isle Refuge (znc) 133
Lumbering Falls

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. {2}{G}{U}: This land becomes a 3/3 green and blue Elemental creature with hexproof until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Lumbering Falls (c21) 299
Lush Oasis

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Lush Oasis (otj) 261
Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (c20) 289
Mutavault

{T}: Add {C}. {1}: This land becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Mutavault (pgpx) 2018
Opulent Palace

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.

Land
Opulent Palace (c20) 295
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (khc) 117
Quandrix Campus

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. {4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Land
Quandrix Campus (stx) 271
Rimewood Falls

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Rimewood Falls (khm) 266
Secluded Courtyard

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

Land
Secluded Courtyard (neo) 275
Simic Growth Chamber

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (gk2) 131
Simic Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Simic Guildgate (cma) 274
Soured Springs

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Soured Springs (otj) 264
Submerged Boneyard

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Submerged Boneyard (znc) 141
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (cm2) 294
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m20) 271
Temple of Mystery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (m20) 255
Thornwood Falls

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Thornwood Falls (iko) 256
Woodland Stream

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Woodland Stream (rix) 191

Land

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Creature

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Adaptive Automaton

As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Creature Artifact
Adaptive Automaton (sld) 1109
Aegis Turtle

Creature
Aegis Turtle (iko) 39
Ancient Lumberknot

Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Creature
Ancient Lumberknot (vow) 230
Angler Turtle

Hexproof Creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able.

Creature
Angler Turtle (g18) GP2
Archetype of Finality

Creatures you control have deathtouch. Creatures your opponents control lose deathtouch and can't have or gain deathtouch.

Creature Enchantment
Archetype of Finality (bng) 58
Archetype of Imagination

Creatures you control have flying. Creatures your opponents control lose flying and can't have or gain flying.

Creature Enchantment
Archetype of Imagination (bng) 32
Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Creature
Beast Whisperer (grn) 123
Bedrock Tortoise

During your turn, creatures you control have hexproof. Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Creature
Bedrock Tortoise (lci) 176
Bloodline Pretender

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As this creature enters, choose a creature type. Whenever another creature you control of the chosen type enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature Artifact
Bloodline Pretender (khm) 235
Calcite Snapper

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Creature
Calcite Snapper (wwk) 25
Colossal Skyturtle

Flying, ward {2} Channel — {2}{G}, Discard this card: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Channel — {1}{U}, Discard this card: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature Enchantment
Colossal Skyturtle (neo) 216
Daring Thunder-Thief

Flash This creature enters tapped.

Creature
Daring Thunder-Thief (otj) 41
Dragon Turtle

Flash Drag Below — When this creature enters, tap it and up to one target creature an opponent controls. They don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

Creature
Dragon Turtle (afr) 56
Fecund Greenshell

Reach As long as you control ten or more lands, creatures you control get +2/+2. Whenever this creature or another creature you control with toughness greater than its power enters, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Creature
Fecund Greenshell (blb) 171
Giant Tortoise

This creature gets +0/+3 as long as it's untapped.

Creature
Giant Tortoise (ema) 52
Gorex, the Tombshell

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of creature cards from your graveyard. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Deathtouch Whenever Gorex attacks or dies, choose a card at random exiled with Gorex and put that card into its owner's hand.

Creature
Gorex, the Tombshell (mic) 58
Hexbane Tortoise

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) Enlist (As this creature attacks, you may tap a nonattacking creature you control without summoning sickness. When you do, add its power to this creature's until end of turn.)

Creature
Hexbane Tortoise (dmu) 166
Horned Turtle

Creature
Horned Turtle (m10) 55
Kappa Cannoneer

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Ward {4} Whenever this creature or another artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and it can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact
Kappa Cannoneer (nec) 50
Kappa Tech-Wrecker

Ninjutsu {1}{G} This creature enters with a deathtouch counter on it. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a deathtouch counter from it. When you do, exile target artifact or enchantment that player controls.

Creature
Kappa Tech-Wrecker (neo) 348
Meandering Towershell

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Whenever this creature attacks, exile it. Return it to the battlefield under your control tapped and attacking at the beginning of the declare attackers step on your next turn.

Creature
Meandering Towershell (plst) KTK-141
Mistford River Turtle

Whenever this creature attacks, another target attacking non-Human creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Mistford River Turtle (eld) 56
Mistwalker

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Flying {1}{U}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Mistwalker (khm) 68
Moritte of the Frost

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) You may have Moritte enter as a copy of a permanent you control, except it's legendary and snow in addition to its other types and, if it's a creature, it enters with two additional +1/+1 counters on it and has changeling.

Creature
Moritte of the Frost (khm) 328
Quandrix Cultivator

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Quandrix Cultivator (stx) 218
Riptide Turtle

Flash Defender

Creature
Riptide Turtle (thb) 61
Scuttlegator

Defender {6}{G/U}{G/U}: Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.) As long as this creature has a +1/+1 counter on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature
Scuttlegator (rna) 218
Steelbane Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {2}{G}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Steelbane Hydra (eld) 322
Thriving Turtle

When this creature enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay {E}{E}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Thriving Turtle (kld) 66
Thunderous Snapper

Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, draw a card.

Creature
Thunderous Snapper (eld) 215
Tidepool Turtle

{2}{U}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Tidepool Turtle (dmu) 69
Turtleshell Changeling

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {1}{U}: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

Creature
Turtleshell Changeling (lrw) 94
Vintara Snapper

This creature has shroud as long as you control no untapped lands. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature
Vintara Snapper (pcy) 132
Wandering Tombshell

Creature
Wandering Tombshell (dtk) 127

Creature

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Sorcery

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Circuitous Route

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Circuitous Route (grn) 125
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (c19) 159
Disentomb

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Disentomb (m11) 94
In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (c19) 121
Open the Gates

Search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Open the Gates (rna) 133
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Preordain (cmr) 84
Villainous Wealth

Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library. You may cast any number of spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.

Sorcery
Villainous Wealth (2x2) 550
Walk the Plank

Destroy target non-Merfolk creature.

Sorcery
Walk the Plank (xln) 130
Wash Out

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Wash Out (cma) 43

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Enchantment

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Assault Formation

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. {G}: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. {2}{G}: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Assault Formation (ima) 155
Beastmaster Ascension

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. As long as this enchantment has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

Enchantment
Beastmaster Ascension (plst) CMA-92
Frozen Aether

Artifacts, creatures, and lands your opponents control enter tapped.

Enchantment
Frozen Aether (plc) 54
Reflections of Littjara

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, copy that spell. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Enchantment
Reflections of Littjara (khm) 73
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (sld) 478
The Bears of Littjara

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. II — Any number of target Shapeshifter creatures you control have base power and toughness 4/4. III — Choose up to one target creature or planeswalker. Each creature with power 4 or greater you control deals damage equal to its power to that permanent.

Enchantment
The Bears of Littjara (khm) 205

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Maybeboard

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Blossoming Tortoise

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, mill three cards, then return a land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Activated abilities of lands you control cost {1} less to activate. Land creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature
Blossoming Tortoise (woe) 163
Brass Herald

As this creature enters, choose a creature type. When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all creature cards of the chosen type revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Creatures of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Creature Artifact
Brass Herald (cmr) 301
Hedge Maze

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Hedge Maze (mkm) 262
Loam Dryad

{T}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Loam Dryad (soi) 216
Restless Cottage

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. {2}{B}{G}: This land becomes a 4/4 black and green Horror creature until end of turn. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, create a Food token and exile up to one target card from a graveyard.

Land
Restless Cottage (woe) 258
Restless Vinestalk

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. {3}{G}{U}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 5/5 green and blue Plant creature with trample. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, up to one other target creature has base power and toughness 3/3 until end of turn.

Land
Restless Vinestalk (woe) 261
Scene of the Crime

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color. {2}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Artifact Land
Scene of the Crime (mkm) 267
Shell Shield

Kicker {1} (You may pay an additional {1} as you cast this spell.) Target creature you control gets +0/+3 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, that creature also gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Shell Shield (znr) 79
The Pride of Hull Clade

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control. Defender {2}{U}{U}: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature
The Pride of Hull Clade (mkm) 172
Twisted Image

Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Twisted Image (a25) 75
Twisted Reflection

Choose one — • Target creature gets -6/-0 until end of turn. • Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn. Entwine {B} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant
Twisted Reflection (mh1) 74
Undercity Sewers

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270
Underground Mortuary

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Underground Mortuary (mkm) 271

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{"ops":[{"insert":"No win con. This deck is pretty weak to be completely honest. As the deck name suggests though, I like turtles and that is why this deck exists. If you came looking for a turtle tribal deck, you have arrived lol\n"}]}
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