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The world's beloved pizza-eating heroes are arriving to the popular trading card game. The popular TCG's publisher, the game's creators, announced a much-awaited Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion during a exclusive panel held at NYCC. Is this a exciting addition or simply another crossover marketing move? Let you decide.

Check out below at all the details revealed from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, including key context. All items listed below launches on March 6, 2026, with one exception — the Pizza Bundle drops a few weeks later on March 27th.

MTG x TMNT: Core Set Cards

Before diving into the many special decks and collections available, let’s take a look at the full lineup 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 premium boosters are priced at $37.99 per booster.

Let's unpack a few shell-shocking details. To begin, a new gameplay mechanic called Sneak, which is a riff on the already established Ninjutsu, where players can cheat big creatures into the game field when an attacker isn’t blocked. The key change here is that this new ability can apply to non-creature spells too. The designers also took the opportunity to clean up the mechanic a little (It counts as casting, unlike the older mechanic). The original ability is staying, but chances are players will encounter the new mechanic in upcoming expansions moving forward.

Should we go back to the Kamigawa plane, we might use Ninjutsu because that's where it was developed and it is iconic to that,” a senior designer stated. “However on other planes, because the rules are cleaner and the new ability is what's going to be Standard-legal, it's more likely that we'd use the updated version.”

Another version of the leader Turtle, Sewer Samurai, is among four special cards with unique artwork designed specifically for the set by TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman.

Additionally, should you be surprised by the rules text on Turtles Forever, which allows playing game cards outside of your main deck, many players were. Yet as per Wizards, it’s now a legal card in all formats of Magic.

Anyway, here are the extremely bizarre full-art lands from this set:

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

“I headed the design for over a year and we were aware it was going to be Standard-legal and which sets were going to be alongside it in Standard,” the designer commented. “Our goal was to ensure that there's synergy with certain expansions like Edge of Eternities.”

As an instance, both TMNT and Edge of Eternities include a blue-red archetype focused on artifacts.

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

Commander Deck: Turtle Power!

After declining to design any Commander precons for Spider-Man and the upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender collaborations, Wizards is reversing course with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only a single precon, but it includes six distinct legendary cards that can serve as your Commander based on how you combine them (five cards include a unique Partner mechanic called “Character Select” that allows starting with two of them in the command area rather than only one). Take a look below:

This Commander precon is priced at $69.99, though that could easily go up due to popularity. Sources indicated that it includes 43 new cards in total, which means an extra thirty-seven TMNT-themed game cards in addition to the six legendary commanders shown earlier. (Doing some rough math, this suggests about 20 reprints if we estimate the deck includes 37 land cards.)

What will the Turtles edition of the iconic Sol Ring appear? Fans must wait and find out.

TMNT Bundle (Regular)

Typically, Wizards is selling a bundle. This one is priced at $69.99 and contains the listed items:

• Nine Standard Boosters
• Fifteen Traditional foil land cards
• 15 Non-foil land cards
• 2 Reference cards
• One Foil promotional card
• One Oversized spindown life counter
• 1 Card-storage box

Pizza-Themed Bundle

This is a special idea for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, mostly in that it is packaged in what looks like a pizza box. Every pizza-themed bundle costs $99.99 and comes with the items below:

• Nine Play Boosters
• One Collector Booster
• 25 Regular pizza lands
• Five Traditional foil pizza-themed lands
• Two Foil Pizza Bundle promotional cards
• 2 Reference cards
• 1 Large life tracker
• One Card-storage box

For those curious what a “Pizza Bundle promo card” is, it’s basically a reprint of an older card with all-new TMNT artwork. Wizards revealed one for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual depicting master Splinter sprinkling black licorice pieces on a pizza. There are six distinct Pizza Bundle promo cards available.

The Pizza Bundle launches a few weeks after the main set on March 27, 2026.

Draft Bundle

This special bundle is made for a four-person draft and is priced at $119.99. That will get you:

• Twelve Standard Boosters (ideal for four people to draft)
• One Collector Booster (also known as, the prize for coming in first)
• 90 Regular basic lands (for building your draft deck)
• Ten Regular double-sided tokens
• 1 Draft insert (a one-sheet guide to drafting the set)

Turtle Team-Up

Lastly, Wizards are introducing a new concept with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as part of its ongoing effort to create Magic game products specifically for beginners. Here, the cooperative set is a unique product of prebuilt decks that allow two players join forces against a “Boss” deck that pilots itself.

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