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Everyone's beloved pizza-eating superheroes are making their way to Magic: The Gathering. The well-known TCG's publisher, the game's creators, revealed a much-awaited Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion at a exclusive panel held at NYCC. Could this be a radical new set or simply another crossover cash grab? We'll let you be the judge.

Check out here at everything revealed from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, including some useful context. Everything listed below launches on March 6th, 2026, except for one item — a special Pizza Bundle drops a few weeks later on March 27.

Magic x TMNT: Main Set Cards

Before diving into all the various special decks and collections on offer, we’ll examine at all the cards from the core Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set that were revealed by Wizards. Standard booster packs for the expansion are set at $6.99 per pack, while Collector Boosters are priced at $37.99 per pack.

Let's unpack a few surprising details. First, a new gameplay mechanic called Sneak Attack, inspired by the pre-existing Ninjutsu, where players can play powerful creatures into the game field whenever an attacker goes unblocked. The big difference in this case is that this new ability can apply to spells that aren’t creatures as well. The designers also took the opportunity to clean up the mechanic a little (Sneak is treated as playing a spell, as opposed to Ninjutsu). Ninjutsu isn't going away, but chances are players will encounter the new mechanic in upcoming expansions from now on.

“If we ever go back to Kamigawa, it’s possible we’d use the original ability since that plane is it originated and it is iconic to that,” a senior designer stated. “But in other settings, because the mechanics are smoother and Sneak will be in standard, it's more likely that we'd use Sneak.”

That second variant of the leader Turtle, Sewer Samurai, is among four cards with unique artwork designed exclusively for the set by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles original artist the co-creator.

Additionally, if you're shocked by the rules text on Turtles Forever card, which allows playing cards outside of your main deck, so was I. Yet according to the developers, that's now a legal card in every format of Magic.

In any case, below are the extremely bizarre full-art lands from this set:

Following Wizards of the Coast's current policy, all these cards are all legal in Magic’s Standard format. The designers state they were careful to ensure the cards and mechanics worked smoothly with current Standard expansions like Edge of Eternities.

“I led the development for 15 months and we were aware it was going to be in standard and which sets were going to be alongside it in standard,” a lead designer commented. “We designed to ensure that they work well with some of those sets like Edge of Eternities.”

As an instance, both TMNT and Edge of Eternities include a Izzet strategy built around artifacts.

“They mesh together to offer the components for a fun Standard deck,” he added.

Commander Deck: Turtle Power

After declining to create any Commander precons for Spider-Man and the upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, the company is reversing course with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only a single precon, but it does come with six distinct legendary cards that can serve as your commander depending on how you combine them (five cards include a unique partner ability named “Character Select” that allows starting with two of them in the command area instead of only one). Check them out below:

This Commander precon is set at $69.99, though the price may rise due to demand. Sources told that it includes 43 new cards altogether, which translates to an extra 37 TMNT-themed cards besides the six legendary commanders shown earlier. (Calculating roughly, that also means approximately 20 reprints if we assume the deck includes 37 lands.)

What will the Turtles version of Sol Ring appear? Fans must wait and see.

TMNT Bundle (Regular)

Typically, Wizards is offering a bundle. This one costs $69.99 and contains the following:

• 9 Play Boosters
• Fifteen Traditional foil basic lands
• 15 Non-foil basic lands
• 2 Reference cards
• 1 Foil promotional card
• One Oversized life tracker
• 1 Card-storage box

Pizza-Themed Bundle

Here’s a special idea for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, mostly in that it is packaged in what looks like a pizza box. Each pizza-themed bundle is priced at $99.99 and includes the items below:

• 9 Play Boosters
• One Collector Booster
• Twenty-five Regular pizza lands
• Five Foil pizza basic lands
• Two Traditional foil Pizza Bundle promo cards
• Two Reference cards
• 1 Large life tracker
• 1 Card-storage box

If you’re wondering about the “pizza bundle promo” means, it’s basically a reprint of an older card with all-new Turtle-themed artwork. Wizards revealed one for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual depicting master Splinter adding toppings on a pizza slice. In total, there are six distinct pizza promos available.

The Pizza Bundle launches a couple of weeks later than the core set on March 27, 2026.

Draft Bundle

This unique product is made for a four-person draft and is priced at $119.99. It includes:

• Twelve Play Boosters (the perfect amount four people to play draft)
• 1 Collector Booster (also known as, the prize for winning)
• 90 Regular basic lands (to build your draft deck)
• 10 Non-foil token cards
• 1 Draft insert (a single-page guide to drafting this expansion)

Turtle Team-Up

Finally, the developers are doing something new with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as part of its continued initiative to create Magic products specifically for new players. Here, Turtle Team-Up is a unique product of prebuilt decks that allow two players join forces to face a “Boss” deck that plays automatically.

The general idea is that every Boss card gives unique powers to the creature cards included in the Boss deck. Each Boss automatically plays one other card per turn, and you’ll start off fighting {one Boss|