Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMT)

In figures

• 180,204 games analysed
• On the play: 59.4% wins, against 54.2% on the draw
• A game lasts 9.4 turns on average

What players think

The format is seen as fairly slow unless Sneak gets going early, with a big gap between good cards and filler; five archetypes are supported, each with two two-color uncommons. The Sneak Ninjas () and the Robots and Machines () are put on top, with the Rebel Alliance () the best of the remaining supported decks, while Disappearing Mutants () is found slow and Mutagen Turtles () held back by a lack of enablers; red is said to have the weakest commons. Our measured games confirm the top: wins most often and stays near the top (third). Gaps: , which is not supported, places second, and the green-based decks championed as midrange sit from the middle to the lower part of our ranking.

Colour pairs

Win rate of the decks of each pair, from real games of online draft players.

Pair	Share of games	Win rate	Strong players	Over time
Sneak Ninjas	22.6 %	59.0 %	57.3 %	59.1 → 58.9 → 58.5
Robots and Machines	22.3 %	58.1 %	58.0 %	57.8 → 58.4 → 59.9
Disappearing Mutants	11.9 %	55.2 %	54.4 %	55.3 → 54.9 → 55.6
Rebel Alliance	9.6 %	55.9 %	54.2 %	55.9 → 56.2 → 55.0
Mutagen Turtles	8.8 %	53.2 %	52.5 %	52.8 → 53.7 → 55.4
	1.2 %	56.1 %	57.2 %	55.4 → 57.2 → —
	0.8 %	58.6 %	56.0 %	57.7 → 59.3 → —
	0.6 %	51.3 %	—	49.4 → 56.2 → —
	0.4 %	45.7 %	—	42.4 → 50.2 → —

Archetypes: the gold uncommons

• Sneak Ninjas

  59.0 % win rate22.6 % of games

  Sneak

  • 

    31. Karai, Future of the Foot

    7.0
  • 

    60. Karai's Technique

    6.2

• Robots and Machines

  58.1 % win rate22.3 % of games

  Robots and artifacts

  • 

    13. Baxter Stockman

    7.9
  • 

    16. Brilliance Unleashed

    7.6

• Disappearing Mutants

  55.2 % win rate11.9 % of games

  Disappear

  • 

    29. Tainted Treats

    7.0
  • 

    63. Pizza Face, Gastromancer

    6.2

• Rebel Alliance

  55.9 % win rate9.6 % of games

  Alliance

  • 

    99. The Neutrinos

    5.6
  • 

    131. Go Ninja Go

    4.8

• Mutagen Turtles

  53.2 % win rate8.8 % of games

  Mutagen

  • 

    53. Genghis Frog

    6.4
  • 

    32. Lessons from Life

    7.0

Mechanics of the set

• Sneak

  You may cast this spell for its sneak cost if, during the declare blockers step, you also return an unblocked attacker you control to hand; a creature cast this way enters tapped and attacking.

• Alliance

  An effect each time another creature enters the battlefield under your control.

• Disappear

  An effect at the beginning of your end step, or when the card enters, if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn.

• Mutagen

  A Mutagen token is an artifact: for one mana, tap and sacrifice it to put a +1/+1 counter on a creature, only any time you could cast a sorcery.

• Robots and artifacts

  Several cards create Robot tokens (1/1 colorless artifact creatures) or reward the artifacts you control.

The best cards

By colour

Rank by our rating, then rank by win rate when the card is in hand.

To remember

• Sneak needs an unblocked attacker to return to hand: keep cheap creatures that attack well, as more than twenty cards of the set mention it.
• Five common lands enter tapped, gain you a life and make two colours, one per main archetype: take the one for your pair.
• 73 cards are legendary: with two copies in play you keep only one; avoid playing the same one twice.
• Several commons are removal, such as Manhole Missile, Anchovy & Banana Pizza, Grounded for Life, Bot Bashing Time or Tenderize: take at least a few.