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Donatello, the Brains

· Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal (TMC)

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Times Brought

355

Decks Running

147

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Donatello, the Brains

Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle

If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus a Mutagen token are created instead. Partner—Character select (You can have two commanders if both have this ability.)

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal (TMC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Jason Rainville

Final zone distribution

77 instances

1.3%

Library

46.8%

Battlefield

22.1%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Leonardo, the Balance 81 decks
2 Heroes in a Half Shell 45 decks
3 Michelangelo, the Heart 12 decks
4 Splinter, Radical Rat 3 decks
5 Jodah, the Unifier 2 decks
6 Lonis, Genetics Expert 2 decks
7 April O'Neil, Live on the Scene 1 decks
8 Arzakon 1 decks
9 Bard, King of Dale 1 decks
10 Breya, Etherium Shaper 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

356 brought · 155 players

Brought to game

356

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 71% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=36) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=207).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=15).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +8.3pp; 95% confidence interval -0.2pp to +16.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=92

15%

24%

17%

11%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 41% (22 / 92 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.