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Everyone's beloved pizza-loving superheroes are coming to Magic: The Gathering. The popular trading card game's publisher, the game's creators, revealed a much-awaited Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion at a exclusive panel held at New York Comic Con. Could this be a exciting addition or simply another Universes Beyond marketing move? Let you be the judge.

Take a look here at everything announced from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, along with some useful background. Everything mentioned here releases on March 6th, 2026, except for one item — the Pizza Bundle drops a few weeks later on March 27th.

Magic x TMNT: Main Set Cards

Before we get into the many unique products and bundles available, let’s take a look at all the cards from the core Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion unveiled by the developers. Play boosters for the set are set at $6.99 per pack, while premium boosters are priced at $37.99 per pack.

Let’s explore a few surprising features. To begin, there's a new mechanic named Sneak, which is a riff on the already established Ninjutsu, where gamers can cheat big creatures into the battlefield when an attacking creature 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 refine the ability a little (It is treated as playing a spell, as opposed to Ninjutsu). The original ability is staying, but chances are we'll see Sneak in future sets moving forward.

“If we ever go back to the Kamigawa plane, it’s possible we’d use the original ability since that's where it was developed and it’s a hallmark to that,” an experienced game designer explained. “But in other settings, since the mechanics are smoother and Sneak is what's going to be in standard, it's more likely that we'd use Sneak.”

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

Oh, and, should you be surprised by the rules text on Turtles Forever, which lets you play cards outside of your main deck, so was I. Yet according to Wizards, 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 this set:

As per Wizards of the Coast's current policy, all these cards are fully legal in Magic’s Standard play. The designers state they were careful to ensure the cards and gameplay elements worked smoothly with other Standard sets such as Edge of Eternities.

“I led the development for over a year and we were aware it would be Standard-legal and which sets were going to be near it in Standard,” a lead designer commented. “We designed to ensure that there's synergy 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 pieces for a fun Standard-legal deck,” the designer says.

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 creatures that can serve as your Commander based on how you pair them (five cards include a unique partner ability called “Character Select” that allows starting with two of them in the command zone rather than just one). Check them out for yourself:

This Commander deck is priced at $69.99, though that could easily go up due to demand. Sources indicated that it contains 43 new cards in total, which translates to an additional thirty-seven TMNT-themed cards in addition to the six legendary creatures shown above. (Calculating roughly, that also means about 20 reprinted cards if we estimate the precon comes with 37 lands.)

How will the Turtles edition of Sol Ring look like? We’ll just have to wait and see.

Standard Bundle (Regular)

Typically, the company is offering a bundle. It is priced at $69.99 and contains the following:

• Nine Standard Boosters
• Fifteen Foil land cards
• Fifteen Regular land cards
• Two Reference cards
• 1 Traditional foil promo card
• One Oversized life tracker
• 1 storage box

Pizza Bundle

This is a special idea for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, primarily because it comes in a box resembling a pizza delivery box. Each Pizza Bundle costs $99.99 and comes with the following:

• Nine Play Boosters
• One Collector Booster
• Twenty-five Non-foil pizza-themed lands
• 5 Foil pizza-themed lands
• Two Traditional foil pizza bundle promo cards
• 2 helper cards
• 1 Large life tracker
• One storage box

For those curious about the “pizza bundle promo” is, it’s basically a reprint of an older card with all-new TMNT artwork. The team showed one for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual featuring art of master Splinter sprinkling black licorice pieces on a pizza. There are six different Pizza Bundle promo cards in total.

This special bundle releases a couple of weeks later than the core set on March 27, 2026.

Draft Night

This special bundle is designed for a four-player draft and is priced at $119.99. It includes:

• Twelve Play Boosters (the perfect amount a group of four to draft)
• One Premium Booster (aka, the prize for coming in first)
• 90 Non-foil basic lands (for building your draft deck)
• 10 Non-foil token cards
• 1 Draft insert (a single-page guide to drafting the set)

Turtle Team-Up

Finally, Wizards are introducing a new concept with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as part of its ongoing effort 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 against a “Boss” deck that plays automatically.

The general idea here that each Boss card grants unique powers to the creatures contained in the Boss deck. Each Boss automatically casts one other card each turn, and players begin battling {one Boss|