Donatello, Mutant Mechanic
Mana Cost:
Type: Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle
Oracle Text:
{T}: Put three +1/+1 counters on target artifact you control. If it isn't a creature, it becomes a 0/0 Robot creature in addition to its other types. Activate only as a sorcery.
Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on up to one target artifact or creature you control.
Power/Toughness: 3/5
Rarity: mythic
Prints: View all prints (3) →
Expansion: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Price ( USD): $1.43
USD: $1.43 · EUR: €2.17
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Character Background
Donatello, Mutant Mechanic reads like a blueprint for an artifact-value or midrange combo deck: his tap ability turns inert gear into beefy Robot creatures and seeds them with +1/+1 counters, and his redistribution trigger preserves that investment when artifacts die, enabling modular-style recursion rather than raw aggro. Thematically he’s the tinkerer who allies tech and body — mechanically he rewards careful sequencing and sacrifice synergies. Best used in a value/combo shell rather than pure tempo (the tap is sorcery-speed), Donatello excels with cards that care about counters or sacrifice engines: Walking Ballista and Hardened Scales scale explosively from his three-counter bursts, while outlets like Ashnod’s Altar or Krark-Clan Ironworks let you cash in artifacts repeatedly and move counters to a finisher. Build to protect him and prioritize cheap, reusable artifacts (cheap Thopters, Myr, or Arcbound pieces) and ways to recur Donatello so you can continually animate, stack counters, and funnel them into a win condition.
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