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Donatello, Mutant Mechanic
Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle
{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.
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“Animate artifacts, load them with counters, sacrifice for value, repeat.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm, Combo
Tokens, Sacrifice, Counters
Strategy
Donatello turns your artifacts into an army of growing creatures while rewarding you for sacrificing them. The core gameplan is to animate cheap artifacts with +1/+1 counters, then sacrifice them to various outlets (like Ashnod's Altar or Viscera Seer) while moving those counters onto other permanents—effectively going infinite with the right pieces. This creates a snowball effect where each artifact death makes your remaining board bigger and harder to stop. You win by turning artifacts into massive threats, then swinging for commander damage or token swarms, or by assembling a sacrifice combo that generates infinite mana and tokens.
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Key Synergies
Budget Build
Replace pricey mana rocks like Mox Diamond with simple ones like Cursecatcher or Hedron Archive; use Viscera Seer instead of pricey tutors to enable sacrifice loops.
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