{"ops":[{"insert":"HEROES IN A HALF SHELL! Michelangelo is a payoff commander that boosts the generation of your +1/+1 counters like the party dude that he is. You have over a dozen and a half cards that generate or create these counters through various means and several more other payoffs for doing so. To start the deck plays other cards similar to Michelangelo that boost your +1/+1 counter production like Hardened Scales, Benevolent Hydra, High Score, Kami of Whispered Hope and Loading Zone while also sporting Mowu who boosts the amount of +1/+1 counters placed on himself allowing him to get big real quick with some attention. Permanents like Thunderous Velocipede, Communal Brewing and Renata make creatures gain +1/+1 counters when they enter the battlefield, while Roaring Earth and Ride the Shoopuf are Landfall pieces that let you place +1/+1 counters on your creatures. Forgotten Ancient and Managorger Hydra both gain +1/+1 counters when "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"A "},{"insert":"player casts a spell. Auras like Forced Adaptation, Level Up and Hydra's Growth and creatures like Maester Seymour and Loyal Guardian produce +1/+1 counters during your turn phases. Fangs of Kalonia is basically Hydra's Growth in Sorcery form with an Overload. Duskshell Crawler is a +1/+1 counter on ETB that gives extra avoidance to creatures with counters. And finally you have a bunch of cards that can Proliferate such as Park Heights Maverick, Evolution Sage, Tromell, Karn's Bastion and Unnatural Restoration to add counters to Permanents that already have counters.\n\nTo facilitate your game plan to make counters, the deck runs a multitude of advantage and ramp engines and payoffs for making your creatures stronger. High Score and Thickest in the Thicket both draw cards on your end step if you control the creature with the highest power. Stocking the Pantry and Tributary Instructor are draw engines that let you draw after stocking counters or when a creature you control with a counter on it dies respectively. Ranger Class and Vizier of the Menagerie both let you top deck creatures onto the battlefield. Lifeblood Hydra draws cards and gains live based on power. Lifestream's Blessing is a Sorcery that draws cards based on power, Shamanic Revelation draws a card for each creature you control while gaining life for each strong creature you have, and Inspiring Call draws a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. For Ramp payoffs you have Mona Lisa, Topiary Lecturer and Gyre Sage who each produce mana based on how many counters or how strong they are. Fertilid can trade counters and mana for more land ramp. Rampant Rejuvenator produce's lands based on it's power when it dies. Fenrir is a versatile Saga that provides land ramp, produces counters and provides card advantage over three turns. And finally Rishkar is Cryptolith's Rite but for creatures you control with +1/+1 counters.\n\nThe deck also provides you with ways outside of card advantage and ramp to reward you for producing +1/+1 counters. The various Spikes let you trades +1/+1 counters for various effects such as lifegain, combat damage Fogs and more counter production. Evolution Witness recurs cards from your graveyard when it gains +1/+1 counters. Basking Broodscale, Herd Baloth and Scurrying Oak each produce tokens when they gain +1/+1 counters. Champion of Lambholdt and Gingerbrute are both evasive threats that benefit greatly from having +1/+1 counters put on them. The Ooze lets you create Mutagen tokens when creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them die. Vigor lets you turn incoming damage on your creatures into more +1/+1 counters. Steelbane Hydra and Leatherhead let you trade counters for ArtiChantment removal. \n"}]}