The deck's core engine revolves around generating massive quantities of Food tokens, then leveraging token-creation payoffs like Doubling Season and Academy Manufactor to flood the battlefield with artifacts and trigger Leonardo's counter-distribution ability, growing the entire creature army with each new token. Michelangelo fuels this loop by rewarding attacks with both Food tokens and +1/+1 counters, while counter-doubling and amplifying effects stack exponentially on key threats like Banquet Guests and Feasting Hobbit to create enormous creatures. The deck wins by overwhelming opponents through combat with a team of outsized, keyword-granted creatures, while Mechanized Production offers an alternate path by copying Food tokens until eight identical artifacts trigger its game-winning condition.

Leonardo, the Balance & Michelangelo, the Heart decklist

• Academy Manufactor
• Anchovy & Banana Pizza
• Arcade Cabinet
• Ash Barrens
• Banquet Guests
• Bebop, Skull & Crossbones
• Big Apple, 3 a.m.
• Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
• Black Market Connections
• Breeding Pool
• Bury in Books
• Cinder Glade
• City of Brass
• Coin of Mastery
• Command Tower
• Compulsive Research
• Continue?
• Dimension X Pizzasaur
• Donatello, the Brains
• Doubling Season
• Dragonskull Summit
• Escape Tunnel
• Everything Pizza
• Evolving Wilds
• Exotic Orchard
• Experimental Confectioner
• Fabled Passage
• Farseek
• Feasting Hobbit
• 3× Forest
• Game Over
• Gilded Goose
• Grand Coliseum
• Guac & Marshmallow Pizza
• Here Comes a New Hero!
• Hidden Hideout
• High Score
• Hinterland Harbor
• Irma, Part-Time Mutant
• 2× Island
• Knuckles the Echidna
• Krark-Clan Ironworks
• Level Up
• Lucky the Pizza Dog
• Mazemind Tome
• Mechanized Production
• Mona Lisa, Science Geek
• 2× Mountain
• Murmuring Volume
• Ninja Pizza
• Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
• Omni-Cheese Pizza
• Overgrown Tomb
• Party Dude
• Path of Ancestry
• Peregrin Took
• Pizza Face, Gastromancer
• 2× Plains
• Rain-Slicked Copse
• Raphael, the Muscle
• Rhystic Study
• Rise and Shine
• Roadkill Rodney
• Rocksteady, Mutant Marauder
• Rootbound Crag
• Rosie Cotton of South Lane
• Smoldering Marsh
• Smothering Tithe
• Sodden Verdure
• Special Move
• Spicy Oatmeal Pizza
• Spire Garden
• Study the Classics
• Sunken Hollow
• Super Combo
• 2× Swamp
• Tempestra, Dame of Games
• Temple Garden
• The Book of Exalted Deeds
• The Cabbage Merchant
• The Underworld Cookbook
• Tireless Provisioner
• Tome of Legends
• Turtle Lair
• Undergrowth Stadium
• Vernal Fen
• Vibrant Cityscape
• Bake into a Pie
• Pawpatch Formation
• Deadly Precision
• The Battle of Bywater
• Tamiyo's Journal