Donatello, Way with Machines TMT 0038 · uncommon
Donatello, Way with Machines · {2}{U} · Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle · Flying Whenever an artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Donatello. · Power / toughness: 1/2 · "Unfortunately, the lowly turtle has been saddled by society with the stereotype of being velocity challenged."
- Price
- from $0.192 printings
- Win rate
- 57.1% GIH 11,263 instances · Premier Draft
Mar 3–Apr 4, 2026 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickEvery artifact you create adds a counter to this flyer. Mutagen provides one counter on entering and can supply another when sacrificed.
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 6,427 wins in 11,263 card-in-hand instances.
10,703 distinct games · 3,785 distinct drafts · games recorded Mar 3–Apr 4, 2026.
17Lands file dated Apr 8, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Every artifact you create adds a counter to this flyer. Mutagen provides one counter on entering and can supply another when sacrificed.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Use white’s extra bodies and blue’s artifact creatures to hold the ground, then grow a flyer with artifact entries.
- What to take next
- Cavalry’s Robot triggers Donatello while providing another blocker. Commando’s Mutagen adds another artifact and can later improve the flyer.
- Wrong pick
- This color combination has no official archetype label in the verified guide. Use the overlap only if the artifact payoffs and early bodies are present.
- Mana & splash
- Keep the colored sources needed for early spells. A synergy payoff does not automatically justify a splash.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.
More
- One-pick Draft
- Every artifact you create adds a counter to this flyer. Mutagen provides one counter on entering and can supply another when sacrificed.
- Sealed vs Draft
- Every artifact you create adds a counter to this flyer. Mutagen provides one counter on entering and can supply another when sacrificed.
Draft data
+0.3 pp vs 56.8% average · 11,263 instances
Premier Draft · Mar 3–Apr 4, 2026 · average from 180,204 games
#104 of 191 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 3.7 on average (20,131 packs).
16 of 30 blue cards · 4 of 8 blue uncommon cards.
2,939 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Mar 3–Apr 4, 2026. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 56.6% · 4,348 instances
● Drawn later 57.4% · 6,915 instances
In hand 57.1% · 11,263 instances
Unseen in deck 54.9% · 13,722 instances
+2.1 percentage points when drawn
Compared with blue cards
Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.
Best decks for it
no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum
Machines UR59.1%5,233 instancesWhite–Blue WU53.5% ◌114 instancesMutagen UG52.6% ◌424 instancesBlue–Black UB51.4%74 instances · under 100Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (57.1% · 11,263 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Usually played with
Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.
Donatello, Turtle Techie16,391 games with both in the deckSewer-veillance Cam14,993 games with both in the deckBuzz Bots14,924 games with both in the deckHow to read this
Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.
At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.
Where it sits in the set
Above 46% of 191 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Mar 3–Apr 4, 2026
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | Play Booster · Theme Deck Donatello · Turtle Team-Up · Turtle Team-Up Case | $0.19 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · Play Booster | $0.31 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 23 packs (4.41%) · 41.8% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 292 packs (0.34%) · 9.8% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 22 packs (4.45%) · 74.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play Booster | Legendary Turtle | 100% | Legendary Turtle |
| Play Booster | Wildcard of any rarity | 100% | Wildcard of any rarity |
| Play Booster | Traditional foil of any rarity | 100% | Traditional foil of any rarity |
| Collector Booster | Traditional foil uncommons | 100% per position | Traditional foil uncommons |
Wizards · Collecting Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ↗ · Oct 29, 2026
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Svetlin Velinov, TMT 38 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- White–Blue cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Collecting Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗