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The world's beloved pizza-eating heroes are making their way to the popular trading card game. The popular TCG's company, the game's creators, revealed a much-awaited Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion during a special event held at New York Comic Con. Is this a exciting new set or simply another crossover marketing move? Let you decide.

Check out below at everything announced from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, including some useful context. All items listed here releases on March 6th, 2026, with one exception — a special Pizza Bundle arrives a few weeks later on March 27th.

MTG x TMNT: Core Set Cards

Before we get into all the various special decks and collections available, let’s take a look at all the cards from the core Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set unveiled by Wizards. Standard booster packs for the set are set at $6.99 each, while Collector Boosters should run $37.99 per pack.

Let's unpack a few shell-shocking details. First, there's a new mechanic called Sneak Attack, which is a riff on the pre-existing Ninjutsu ability, in which gamers can cheat big creatures onto the battlefield whenever an attacker goes unblocked. The big difference here is that this new ability can affect non-creature spells as well. The designers also took the opportunity to refine the mechanic a little (It counts as playing a spell, as opposed to Ninjutsu). The original ability isn't going away, but chances are players will encounter the new mechanic in upcoming expansions from now on.

Should we were to return to the Kamigawa plane, we might use the original ability since that's where it was developed and it’s a hallmark to that,” an experienced game designer stated. “However in other settings, since the rules are cleaner and the new ability is what's going to be Standard-legal, it’s probable we’ll use the updated version.”

That second variant of the leader Turtle, Sewer Samurai, is one of four cards with unique artwork created exclusively for the set by TMNT co-creator the co-creator.

Additionally, should you be surprised by the card text on Turtles Forever card, which allows playing game cards outside of your main deck, many players were. But according to the developers, that's now a legal card in every format of Magic.

In any case, below are the highly unusual land cards with full art from the TMNT set:

Following Wizards of the Coast's existing guidelines, these cards are fully legal in Magic’s Standard format. The designers say they were careful to make sure the new cards and mechanics meshed well with current Standard expansions like Edge of Eternities.

“I headed the design for 15 months and we were aware it was going to be Standard-legal and what other sets were going to be near it in Standard,” the designer commented. “We designed to make sure that there's synergy with certain expansions including Edge of Eternities.”

As an instance, both TMNT and Edge of Eternities feature a blue-red archetype focused on artifact cards.

“They mesh together to provide the pieces for a fun Standard-legal deck,” he added.

Commander Deck: Turtle Power

After declining to create any Commander precons for Spider-Man and the forthcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, the company is reversing course with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only one precon, but it includes six different legendary cards who could work as your Commander based on how you combine them (five cards include a unique Partner mechanic called “Character Select” that allows starting with two commanders in the command area instead of only one). Check them out below:

The Turtle Power deck is priced at $69.99, although that could easily go up due to popularity. Wizards indicated that it includes 43 new cards in total, which translates to an additional thirty-seven TMNT-themed cards besides the six legendary creatures shown above. (Calculating roughly, that also means about 20 reprints if we estimate the precon includes 37 lands.)

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

TMNT Bundle (Regular)

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

• Nine Play Boosters
• 15 Traditional foil land cards
• Fifteen Regular land cards
• Two helper cards
• 1 Foil promo card
• One Large life tracker
• One Card-storage box

Pizza-Themed Bundle

This is a special idea for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, mostly in that it is packaged in a box resembling a pizza box. Every pizza-themed bundle is priced at $99.99 and includes the following:

• Nine Play Boosters
• 1 Collector Booster
• 25 Regular pizza-themed lands
• Five Foil pizza basic lands
• Two Foil Pizza Bundle promotional cards
• 2 Reference cards
• 1 Oversized spindown life counter
• One Card-storage box

If you’re wondering what a “Pizza Bundle promo card” means, it’s essentially a reprint of an older card with brand-new TMNT artwork. The team revealed an example for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual depicting Splinter adding toppings on a pizza slice. There are six distinct pizza promos in total.

The Pizza Bundle releases a few weeks after the core set on March 27, 2026.

Draft Bundle

This unique product is designed for a four-person draft and costs $119.99. That will get you:

• 12 Play Boosters (the perfect amount four people to play draft)
• One Collector Booster (also known as, the reward for coming in first)
• 90 Non-foil basic lands (to build your draft deck)
• Ten Regular double-sided tokens
• One drafting guide (a one-sheet instruction sheet to drafting this expansion)

Turtle Team-Up

Finally, the developers are doing something new with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as in line with its continued initiative to develop Magic game products aimed at beginners. Here, the cooperative set is a special set of decks that allow two players team up against a “Boss” enemy deck that plays automatically.

The concept here that each Boss card gives special abilities to the creature cards included in the Boss deck. The Boss automatically plays one other card each turn, and you’ll start off battling {one Boss|