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The world's beloved pizza-eating superheroes are coming to the popular trading card game. The well-known TCG's publisher, Wizards of the Coast, announced a highly anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion during a exclusive panel hosted at NYCC. Is this a exciting new set or simply another Universes Beyond cash grab? Let you be the judge.

Check out here at all the details revealed from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, including key background. Everything listed below launches on March 6, 2026, except for one item — the Pizza Bundle arrives a couple of weeks after on March 27.

Magic x TMNT: Core Set Cards

Before we get into the many special decks and bundles on offer, we’ll examine at the full lineup from the main Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion that were revealed by the developers. Play boosters for the set are set at $6.99 each, while premium boosters should run $37.99 per booster.

Let's unpack a few shell-shocking details. First, a new gameplay mechanic called Sneak, which is a riff on the already established Ninjutsu, where gamers can play powerful creatures into the battlefield when an attacker goes unblocked. The big difference here is that Sneak can affect non-creature spells as well. Wizards also used this chance to refine the ability a bit (Sneak is treated as playing a spell, unlike Ninjutsu). Ninjutsu is staying, but chances are players will encounter the new mechanic in future sets moving forward.

“If we ever go back to Kamigawa, we might use Ninjutsu because that's where it originated and it is iconic to that,” a senior designer explained. “However on other planes, since the mechanics are smoother and Sneak is what's going to be in standard, it’s probable we’ll use the updated version.”

Another version of the leader Turtle, Sewer Samurai card, is one of four cards with unique artwork designed specifically for the set by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator the co-creator.

Oh, and, should you be surprised by the rules text on Turtles Forever card, which lets you play cards outside of your deck, many players were. Yet as per the developers, that's now a legal card in all formats of Magic.

Anyway, below are the highly unusual land cards with full art from the TMNT set:

Following the company’s existing guidelines, these cards are all legal in Magic’s Standard play. Developers say they were careful to make sure the new cards and gameplay elements worked smoothly with other Standard sets like Edge of Eternities.

“I headed the design for 15 months and we knew it would be in standard and what other sets were going to be alongside it in Standard,” a lead designer commented. “Our goal was to ensure that they work well with certain expansions like Edge of Eternities.”

For example, each of TMNT and Edge of Eternities include a blue-red strategy built around artifact cards.

“They combine to provide the pieces for a fun Standard-legal deck,” the designer says.

Commander Deck: Turtle Power!

Following a decision to create any pre-constructed Commander decks for Spider-Man and the upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, Wizards is reversing course with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This time it’s just one precon, but it does come with six different legendary cards that can serve as your Commander based on how you combine them (five of the cards include a unique partner ability named “Character Select” that allows starting with two of them in the command zone rather than only one). Take a look below:

This Commander precon is set at $69.99, though the price may rise due to popularity. Sources told that it contains 43 new cards in total, which means an additional thirty-seven TMNT-themed cards in addition to the six legendary creatures pictured above. (Doing some rough math, this suggests approximately 20 reprints if we assume the precon includes 37 lands.)

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

TMNT Bundle (Regular)

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

• Nine Standard Boosters
• Fifteen Foil basic lands
• 15 Regular land cards
• Two Reference cards
• One Traditional foil promotional card
• One Large spindown life counter
• One storage box

Pizza Bundle

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

• 9 Standard Boosters
• 1 Premium Booster
• Twenty-five Regular pizza lands
• 5 Foil pizza basic lands
• 2 Foil Pizza Bundle promotional cards
• Two Reference cards
• One Oversized spindown life counter
• One Card-storage box

If you’re wondering what a “pizza bundle promo” means, it’s basically a reprinted older card featuring brand-new Turtle-themed artwork. The team revealed an example for the popular Magic card Dark Ritual featuring art of Splinter adding black licorice pieces onto a pizza slice. There are six distinct Pizza Bundle promo cards available.

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

Draft Night

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

• Twelve Standard Boosters (the perfect amount a group of four to play draft)
• One Collector Booster (aka, the prize for coming in first)
• 90 Regular land cards (for building your draft deck)
• 10 Regular token cards
• One drafting guide (a single-page instruction sheet to drafting this expansion)

Cooperative Play Set

Lastly, Wizards are introducing a new concept with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as in line with its ongoing effort to develop Magic game products specifically for beginners. Here, Turtle Team-Up is a special set of decks that let you and a friend join forces to face a “Boss” enemy deck that pilots itself.

The concept is that each Boss card gives special abilities to the creatures included in the boss deck. Each Boss automatically plays one other card per turn, and you’ll start off fighting {one Boss|