Splinter, Aging Champion

About Splinter, Aging Champion

Splinter, Aging Champion, Legendary creature — mutant ninja rat, designed by Thomas Chamberlain-Keen first released in Feb, 2026 in the set Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 11.70.

Splinter, Aging Champion fits best in white midrange or blink/value decks that can repeatedly exile and return creatures (like with Ephemerate, Teleportation Circle, or Restoration Angel), since re-triggering the enter-the-battlefield destruction turns it into steady removal, while sacrifice or blink synergies can also control when you get the leave-the-battlefield card draw; it’s especially solid in Commander where political draw (“you and another target player”) can build alliances, and in slower Standard/Pioneer-style midrange shells that want flexible interaction stapled to a body. That said, at three mana and only destroying a *tapped* creature, it’s weaker than staples like Skyclave Apparition (hits any nonland permanent with mana value ≤4), Brutal Cathar (repeatable creature removal in aggressive shells), or even classic removal like Fateful Absence, so competitively it would likely be fringe unless the metagame is very combat-focused and tap-heavy; overall it’s playable in syne