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The world's beloved pizza-eating heroes are arriving to Magic: The Gathering. The well-known trading card game's company, the game's creators, unveiled a highly anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion during a special event held at New York Comic Con. Could this be a exciting addition or simply another crossover cash grab? Let you be the judge.

Take a look here at all the details revealed from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, along with key background. All items mentioned here releases on March 6, 2026, with one exception — a special Pizza Bundle arrives a few weeks later on March 27th.

Magic x TMNT: Core Set Cards

Before diving into the many special decks and bundles on offer, let’s take a look at the full lineup from the main Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set that were revealed by Wizards. Play boosters for the expansion are priced at $6.99 each, while Collector Boosters are priced at $37.99 per booster.

Let’s explore a couple of shell-shocking details. First, a new gameplay mechanic named Sneak Attack, inspired by the already established Ninjutsu, where gamers can play big creatures into the battlefield when an attacker isn’t blocked. The big difference in this case is that Sneak can affect non-creature spells as well. The designers also used this chance to clean up the ability a little (Sneak counts as playing a spell, unlike the older mechanic). Ninjutsu is staying, but chances are players will encounter Sneak in upcoming expansions moving forward.

Should we were to return to Kamigawa, we might use Ninjutsu because that's where it was developed and it’s a hallmark of that world,” a senior game designer stated. “However on other planes, since the rules are cleaner and the new ability will be in standard, it's more likely that we'd use the updated version.”

That second variant of Leonardo, Sewer Samurai, is among four cards with unique artwork designed exclusively for the expansion by TMNT original artist the co-creator.

Additionally, should you be surprised by the rules text on Turtles Forever card, which lets you play game cards that aren't in your deck, many players were. But according to Wizards, that's now a legal card in all formats of Magic.

Anyway, here are the highly unusual land cards with full art from this set:

As per Wizards of the Coast's current policy, these cards are all legal in Magic’s Standard format. The designers state they were careful to make sure the new cards and gameplay elements meshed well with current Standard expansions like Edge of Eternities.

“I headed the development for 15 months and we knew it was going to be Standard-legal and what other sets were going to be near it in Standard,” the designer says. “We designed to make sure that there's synergy with some of those sets like Edge of Eternities.”

For example, both TMNT and Edge of Eternities include a Izzet strategy focused on artifact cards.

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

Preconstructed Commander: Turtle Power

Following a decision to design any Commander precons for Spider-Man and the forthcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, Wizards is changing direction with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only one precon, but it includes six distinct legendary cards that can serve as your commander based on how you combine them (five of the cards have a special Partner mechanic named “Character Select” that lets you start with two of them in the command zone rather than just one). Take a look below:

This Commander deck is priced at $69.99, although that could easily go up due to demand. Sources indicated that it includes 43 new cards in total, which translates to an additional thirty-seven Turtle-themed cards besides the six legendary creatures shown above. (Calculating roughly, this suggests approximately 20 reprinted cards if we estimate the precon comes with 37 land cards.)

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

TMNT Bundle (Standard Edition)

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

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

Pizza-Themed Bundle

Here’s a special idea for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, primarily because it is packaged in what looks like a pizza delivery box. Every pizza-themed bundle costs $99.99 and comes with the items below:

• Nine Standard Boosters
• 1 Collector Booster
• Twenty-five Non-foil pizza lands
• 5 Foil pizza basic lands
• Two Foil Pizza Bundle promo cards
• 2 helper cards
• 1 Large life tracker
• 1 storage box

If you’re wondering about the “pizza bundle promo” is, it’s essentially a reprinted older card with all-new Turtle-themed artwork. Wizards showed an example for the popular Magic card Dark Ritual depicting Splinter sprinkling toppings on a pizza. There are six different Pizza Bundle promo cards available.

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

Draft Night

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

• 12 Play Boosters (the perfect amount a group of four to play draft)
• 1 Collector Booster (aka, the prize for coming in first)
• Ninety Regular basic lands (to build your draft deck)
• Ten Non-foil double-sided tokens
• One drafting guide (a single-page instruction sheet 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 products aimed at beginners. In this case, Turtle Team-Up is a unique product of prebuilt decks that let you and a friend join forces against a “Boss” enemy deck that plays automatically.

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