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The world's favorite pizza-eating heroes are coming to Magic: The Gathering. The popular TCG's company, the game's creators, unveiled a much-awaited Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion during a exclusive panel held at NYCC. Could this be a exciting new set or simply another Universes Beyond marketing move? We'll let you be the judge.

Check out here at everything revealed from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, along with key background. All items mentioned here releases on March 6, 2026, except for one item — the Pizza Bundle arrives a couple of weeks after on March 27th.

Magic x TMNT: Core Set Cards

Before we get into all the various special decks and collections on offer, let’s take a look at all the cards from the main Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set unveiled by the developers. Play boosters for the set are priced at $6.99 each, while premium boosters should run $37.99 per pack.

Let’s explore a couple of shell-shocking features. To begin, there's a new mechanic named Sneak, which is a riff on the already established Ninjutsu, in which gamers can play powerful creatures into the battlefield when an attacking creature goes unblocked. The key change here is that this new ability can affect non-creature spells too. The designers also used this chance to refine the ability a little (It is treated as casting, unlike the older mechanic). The original ability is staying, but it's more likely players will encounter Sneak in upcoming expansions from now on.

“If we ever go back to the Kamigawa plane, we might use Ninjutsu since that plane is it was developed and it’s a hallmark of that world,” a senior game designer explained. “However in other settings, because the rules are cleaner and Sneak will be in standard, it’s probable that we'd use the updated version.”

That second variant of Leonardo, Sewer Samurai card, is one of four cards with special art designed exclusively for the expansion by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles original artist Kevin Eastman.

Oh, and, if you're shocked by the card text on Turtles Forever, which allows playing game cards outside of your main deck, so was I. 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 the company’s current policy, all these cards are all legal in Magic’s Standard play. The designers say they took care to ensure the new cards and gameplay elements worked smoothly with current Standard expansions like Edge of Eternities.

“I headed the development for over a year and we were aware it would be Standard-legal and what other sets were going to be alongside it in standard,” the designer says. “We designed to make sure that they work well with certain expansions including Edge of Eternities.”

For example, each of TMNT and Edge of Eternities feature a blue-red strategy focused on artifact cards.

“They mesh together to provide the pieces for a enjoyable Standard deck,” he says.

Commander Deck: Turtle Power!

Following a decision to design any Commander precons for the Spider-Man set 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 does come with six different legendary creatures that can serve as your commander depending on how you pair them (five cards have a special Partner mechanic called “Character Select” that allows starting with two commanders in the command zone instead of only one). Check them out below:

This Commander precon is set at $69.99, though the price may rise based on popularity. Wizards told that it contains 43 new cards altogether, which translates to an additional 37 TMNT-themed cards besides the six legendary creatures shown earlier. (Doing some rough math, that also means approximately 20 reprinted cards if we assume the precon includes 37 lands.)

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

TMNT Bundle (Standard Edition)

As per usual, the company is offering a collection. This one costs $69.99 and contains the following:

• 9 Play Boosters
• Fifteen Foil basic lands
• 15 Non-foil land cards
• 2 helper cards
• 1 Foil promo card
• 1 Oversized life tracker
• 1 Card-storage box

Pizza Bundle

Here’s a unique concept for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, mostly in that it comes in what looks like a pizza box. Each Pizza Bundle costs $99.99 and comes with the items below:

• Nine Play Boosters
• 1 Collector Booster
• 25 Regular pizza-themed lands
• Five Foil pizza-themed lands
• 2 Foil Pizza Bundle promotional cards
• Two helper cards
• 1 Large spindown life counter
• 1 storage box

For those curious what a “pizza bundle promo” means, it’s essentially a reprinted older card featuring all-new TMNT art. The team revealed one for the popular Magic card Dark Ritual featuring art of master Splinter sprinkling toppings onto a pizza. In total, there are six different pizza promos in total.

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

Draft Night

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

• Twelve Standard Boosters (ideal for a group of four to play draft)
• One Collector Booster (aka, the prize for coming in first)
• 90 Non-foil basic lands (to build your draft deck)
• Ten Non-foil token cards
• 1 drafting guide (a one-sheet guide to drafting this expansion)

Turtle Team-Up

Lastly, 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 new players. In this case, the cooperative set is a unique product of decks that allow two players join forces against a “Boss” deck that pilots itself.

The concept is that each Boss card grants special abilities to the creature cards included in the boss deck. The Boss automatically casts an additional card each turn, and players begin fighting {one Boss|