Dark Leo & Shredder
TMT · mythic · Released 2026-03-06
Power
Tier shown as baseline → best-case (in its ideal shell).
Derived from the 7 atoms below.
above rate
minor value alone
wants support
can take over a game
multiple modes
broadly useful
easily answered
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Rationale
Dark Leo & Shredder is a 2cmc legendary Ninja lord that grants deathtouch to attacking Ninjas (strong evasion/combat deterrent), generates 1/1 Ninja tokens on combat damage, and has a powerful payoff at 5+ Ninjas: halving an opponent's life (rounded up). The Sneak mechanic enables surprise attacks by re-entering tapped and attacking. Signature in Ninja tribal aggro, scales toward a near-instant-win life-drain in Brawl where one opponent's life total is only 25.
Learnings (3)
The 'half their life rounded up' trigger at 5+ Ninjas is a near-instant kill in Brawl at 25 life (deals ~13 each trigger), making this dramatically stronger in 1v1 than multiplayer Commander where opponents start at 40 life.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
The static deathtouch-grant applies to ALL attacking Ninjas you control, not just this creature, making a wide board of even 1/1 Ninja tokens extremely dangerous to block.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
Sneak's alt-cost returns one of your currently unblocked attackers to hand mid-combat, so Dark Leo & Shredder can be 'sneaked in' repeatedly each combat after the initial cast, re-triggering its combat damage ability.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
Popularity
- EDHREC rank: #9,475