
Splinter, the Mentor
Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Rat
Menace
Whenever Splinter or another nontoken creature you control leaves the battlefield, create a Mutagen token.
Partner—Character select (You can have two commanders if both have this ability.)
"We choose what holds us back."
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Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Boomerang, Blade Flinger
- H.E.R.B.I.E., Lovable Robot
- White Widow, Yelena Belova
- Captain America's Shield
- Black Widow, Super Spy
- Shredder's Technique
- Rat King, Pale Piper
- Read the Bones
- Swift Demise
- Foot Chopper
- Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
- Bloodline Recollector
- The Cloning of Shredder
- Shark Shredder, Killer Clone
- Hero's Downfall
- Ninja Teen
- South Wind Avatar
- Metallic Mimic
- Okiba-Gang Shinobi
- Throat Slitter
- Bastion of Remembrance
- Agent Venom
- Ogre Slumlord
- Doomed Necromancer
- Memorial to Folly
- Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
- Exploding Barrel
- Bebop, Skull & Crossbones
- Splinter, Hamato Yoshi
- Dimension X Pizzasaur
- Game Over
- Shredder's Revenge
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Shredder, Shadow Master
- Bloodghast
- Rise of the Dark Realms
- Weather Maker
- Vampiric Rites
- Technodrome
- The Ooze
- Madame Null, Power Broker
- Savanti Romero, Time's Exile
- Armaggon, Future Shark
- Wedding Invitation
- Bone Harvest
- Priest of Forgotten Gods
- Rat King, Verminister
- Forever Young
- Gravepurge
- Super Shredder
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Sol Ring
- Swamp
- Arcane Signet
- Read the Bones
- Boomerang, Blade Flinger
- H.E.R.B.I.E., Lovable Robot
- White Widow, Yelena Belova
- Black Widow, Super Spy
- Captain America's Shield
- Village Rites
- Deadly Dispute
- Bastion of Remembrance
- Victimize
- Night's Whisper
- Dark Ritual
- Sign in Blood
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Rat King, Pale Piper
- Shredder's Technique
- Reassembling Skeleton
- Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
- Mind Stone
- Ashnod's Altar
- Hero's Downfall
- Witch's Cottage
- Ogre Slumlord
- Feed the Swarm
- Go for the Throat
- Rise of the Dark Realms
- Phyrexian Arena
- Bloodghast
- Viscera Seer
- Plaguecrafter
- Morbid Opportunist
- Foot Chopper
- Swift Demise
- Ninja Teen
- The Cloning of Shredder
- Bloodline Recollector
- Shark Shredder, Killer Clone
- South Wind Avatar
- Infernal Grasp
- Burglar Rat
- Priest of Forgotten Gods
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Withering Torment
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Blood Artist
- Fleshbag Marauder
- Throat Slitter
Format legality
Rulings
- 2026-01-27
An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.
- 2026-01-27
Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
- 2026-01-27
If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
- 2026-01-27
If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can only include cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders' combined color identities. If Donatello, the Brains and Splinter, the Mentor are your commanders, your deck may contain cards with blue and/or black in their color identity, but not cards with red, green, or white. (If Leonardo, the Balance is one of your commanders, your deck may contain cards with any color or combination of colors in their color identity, regardless of who your other commander is.)
- 2026-01-27
Mutagen tokens are a kind of predefined token. Each one is a colorless artifact with the artifact subtype Mutagen and the ability "
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, Sacrifice this token: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery."
- 2026-01-27
Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won't have to pay an additional
the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined.
- 2026-01-27
Some spells and abilities that create Mutagen tokens require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. The Mutagen token won't be created.
- 2026-01-27
To have two commanders, both must have appropriate partner abilities as the game begins. Losing the ability during the game doesn't cause either to cease to be your commander.
- 2026-01-27
You can have two commanders if each one has "Partner—Character select." You can't mix and match them with cards that have other partner abilities.