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Leonardo, Sewer Samurai
Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle Samurai · {3}{W} · White commander
What Leonardo, Sewer Samurai actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Static ability · restrictionDuring your turn, you may cast creature spells with power or toughness 1 or less from your graveyard. If you cast a spell this way, that creature enters with a finality counter on it.
- Keyword · sneaksneak
- Keyword · double strikedouble strike
What a Leonardo, Sewer Samurai deck needs
Plays as graveyard. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
- small creatures (power 1 or less — its text only counts them)
- cheap evasive creatures that connect unblocked (sneak's cost is an unblocked attacker)
The Leonardo, Sewer Samurai deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 14× A 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield
- 17× A creature under the commander's power cap — its text only counts them
- 10× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Leonardo, Sewer Samurai
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
A 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield
- Gingerbrute1 mana
- Soltari Foot Soldier1 mana
- Skrelv, Defector Mite1 mana
- Signal Pest1 mana
- Ornithopter0 mana
- Beloved Princess1 mana
- Prehistoric Pet1 mana
- Goldmeadow Dodger1 mana
A creature under the commander's power cap — its text only counts them
- Walking Ballista0 mana
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Mother of Runes1 mana
- Soul Warden1 mana
- Soul's Attendant1 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Spirited Companion2 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
- Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
- Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
- Sequestered Stash0 mana
- Excavated Wall1 mana
- Wand of Vertebrae1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
- Angelic Ascension2 mana
- You Cannot Pass!1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Templar Knight2 mana
- Idyllic Tutor3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Loyal Tutor1 mana
- Recruiter of the Guard3 mana
- Search for Glory3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
- No Witnesses4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Caretaker's Talent3 mana
- Enduring Innocence3 mana
- Mentor of the Meek3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Leonardo, Sewer Samurai
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Leonardo, Sewer Samurai is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Leonardo, Sewer Samurai + Solemnity + Phyrexian Altar96 decks
- Leonardo, Sewer Samurai + Solemnity + Ashnod's Altar + Ornithopter60 decks
- Leonardo, Sewer Samurai + Solemnity + Phyrexian Altar + Ornithopter53 decks
- Leonardo, Sewer Samurai + Solemnity + Ashnod's Altar + Memnite52 decks
- Leonardo, Sewer Samurai + Solemnity + Phyrexian Altar + Memnite46 decks
- Leonardo, Sewer Samurai + Solemnity + Blasting Station + Ornithopter39 decks
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