Michelangelo, Game Master TMT 0118 · common
Michelangelo, Game Master · {2}{G} · Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle · Disappear — At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Michelangelo. · Power / toughness: 3/3 · "A teacher must be ready to accept responsibility for the student, especially when the student is a weirdo." —Splinter
- Price
- from $0.171 printing
- Win rate
- 54.9% GIH 18,582 instances · Premier Draft
Mar 3–Apr 4, 2026 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickGrows at your end step if a permanent left under your control this turn. Save a token sacrifice for a turn where it adds another counter.
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 10,193 wins in 18,582 card-in-hand instances.
17,087 distinct games · 5,954 distinct drafts · games recorded Mar 3–Apr 4, 2026.
17Lands file dated Apr 8, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Grows at your end step if a permanent left under your control this turn. Save a token sacrifice for a turn where it adds another counter.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Build a steady creature curve, turn disposable tokens into disappear growth, and use larger creatures to make damage spells effective.
- What to take next
- With Michelangelo present, sacrifice a spare artifact during your turn. His end-step counter improves future Tenderize damage.
- Wrong pick
- A Mutagen or Food still costs mana to activate. Include that cost when planning both the sacrifice and your main spell.
- 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
- Grows at your end step if a permanent left under your control this turn. Save a token sacrifice for a turn where it adds another counter.
- Sealed vs Draft
- Grows at your end step if a permanent left under your control this turn. Save a token sacrifice for a turn where it adds another counter.
Draft data
−1.9 pp vs 56.8% average · 18,582 instances
Premier Draft · Mar 3–Apr 4, 2026 · average from 180,204 games
#131 of 191 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 5.5 on average (86,081 packs).
18 of 27 green cards · 5 of 10 green common cards.
17,202.9 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 53.0% · 7,161 instances
● Drawn later 56.0% · 11,421 instances
In hand 54.9% · 18,582 instances
Unseen in deck 52.7% · 22,621 instances
+2.1 percentage points when drawn
Compared with green 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
Green–White GW56.3% ◌128 instancesDisappear BG54.4%2,016 instancesMutagen UG50.7%970 instancesRed–Green RG43.2%37 instances · under 100Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (54.9% · 18,582 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.
Frog Butler24,301 games with both in the deckTenderize22,599 games with both in the deckRagamuffin Raptor20,915 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 32% 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 Michelangelo · Turtle Team-Up · Turtle Team-Up Case | $0.17 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · Play Booster | $0.25 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 14 packs (7.25%) · 59.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 100 packs (1.00%) · 26.0% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 7 packs (14.09%) · 98.9% 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 commons | 100% per position | Traditional foil commons |
Wizards · Collecting Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ↗ · Oct 29, 2026
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Pauper · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Eilene Cherie, TMT 118 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Red–Green cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Collecting Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗