{"id":374970,"date":"2026-03-08T23:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/374970\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T23:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:38:14","slug":"the-mtg-ninja-turtle-skateboard-is-showing-up-in-decks-for-one-of-the-games-strongest-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/374970\/","title":{"rendered":"The MTG Ninja Turtle Skateboard is showing up in decks for one of the game’s strongest formats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cowabunga! I don’t know what was on your bingo card for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle<\/strong> Magic: the Gathering<\/strong> set, but a skateboard powerful enough to be viable in Legacy certainly wasn’t on mine. This crossover has already given us a whole sewer stuffed full of legendary creatures<\/a>, pixel art cards<\/a>, and some truly disgusting pizzas<\/a>. Now it’s on track to shake up one of Magic’s most powerful formats.<\/p>\n

Legacy is a Magic: the Gathering format<\/a> where most of the cards printed since the game began in 1993 are legal. The format does enforce some bans, including everything in the infamous Power 9<\/a> and other busted cards. Have a read of our guide to the banlists of different MTG formats<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

Because of its massive card pool, it’s difficult for new cards to break through and see any play in Legacy. Nevertheless, the Skateboard<\/strong> from the Ninja Turtle expansion has hurtled its way into the format.<\/p>\n

Skateboard is a one mana piece of equipment that taps a permanent when it enters play. It can be equipped, also for one mana, granting the creature it is attached to +1\/+0 and haste.<\/p>\n

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Skateboard put up results in a recent Legacy tournament on Magic: the Gathering Online (Magic’s old, but still reliable, digital client before that new whippersnapper Arena<\/a> upstaged it in 2019). The top eight of this tournament<\/a> contained two separate decks, that both ran a single copy of the card.<\/p>\n

Both of these decks are artifact heavy combo builds that use the skateboard in conjunction with the cards Goblin Welder<\/strong> and fellow Ninja Turtle card Sewer-veillance Cam<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Goblin Welder can be tapped to sacrifice an artifact in order to swap it with another artifact from the graveyard. Sewer-veilance Cam is an artifact that taps or untaps a creature as it enters and leaves play, untapping the Welder and allowing its ability to be looped an infinite number of times.<\/p>\n

The skateboard taps a land, or a potentially problematic permanent, down as it enters the battlefield, preventing the opponent from disrupting the plan. It can then grant Goblin Welder haste, allowing the combo to kick off a turn early, or be sacrificed to a Welder that’s already online to fetch a Sewer-veilance Cam that’s already in the graveyard.<\/p>\n

There are then a variety of ways to close out the game once Goblin Welder has started up. The opponent’s life can be depleted by repeatedly fetching the burn card Legion Extruder<\/strong>, or infinite mana can be generated by grabbing, tapping, and sacrificing the mana rock Mox Opal<\/strong> over and over again.<\/p>\n

What are your thoughts on skateboards entering one of Magic’s most prestigious formats? Is this totally radical, or completely cringe? Let us know your views on the Wargamer Discord<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking to learn more about the history of the game, have a browse of our timeline of all MTG sets in order<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowabunga! I don’t know what was on your bingo card for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Magic: the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[65011,18,19,17,78442,16821,82,78443],"class_list":["post-374970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-card-game","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-magic-the-gathering","tag-strategy","tag-technology","tag-wizards-of-the-coast"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116196193272646545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}