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The world's favorite pizza-loving heroes are arriving to Magic: The Gathering. The well-known trading card game's publisher, Wizards of the Coast, revealed a highly anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion during a exclusive panel held at NYCC. Could this be a exciting new set or simply another crossover marketing move? We'll let you be the judge.

Take a look below at everything announced from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, including key context. Everything listed here launches on March 6th, 2026, except for one item — the Pizza Bundle arrives a couple of weeks after on March 27th.

Magic x TMNT: Core Set Cards

Before diving into all the various unique products and bundles on offer, we’ll examine at the full lineup from the core Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion unveiled by the developers. Play boosters for the expansion are set at $6.99 per pack, while premium boosters are priced at $37.99 per pack.

Let’s explore a few surprising details. To begin, a new gameplay mechanic named Sneak, inspired by the pre-existing Ninjutsu, where players can play big creatures onto the game field when an attacker goes unblocked. The key change here is that this new ability can apply to spells that aren’t creatures as well. Wizards also used this chance to clean up the mechanic a little (Sneak is treated as casting, unlike the older mechanic). The original ability isn't going away, but it's more likely we'll see Sneak in future sets moving forward.

“If we ever were to return to Kamigawa, we might use Ninjutsu since that's where it was developed and it’s a hallmark to that,” an experienced designer stated. “However in other settings, since the rules are cleaner and the new ability is what's going to be in standard, it’s probable that we'd use Sneak.”

That second variant of Leonardo, Sewer Samurai card, is one of four special cards with unique artwork created specifically for the set by TMNT co-creator the co-creator.

Oh, and, should you be surprised by the card text on Turtles Forever card, which lets you play cards that aren't in your deck, so was I. But according to the developers, that's now a legal card in every format of Magic.

Anyway, 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 all legal in Magic’s Standard format. Developers state they took care to ensure the new cards and gameplay elements meshed well with current Standard expansions like Edge of Eternities.

“I headed the design for 15 months and we were aware it was going to be Standard-legal and what other sets were going to be alongside it in Standard,” a lead designer commented. “We designed to make sure that there's synergy with certain expansions like Edge of Eternities.”

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

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

Preconstructed Commander: Turtle Power!

Following a decision to create any Commander precons for the Spider-Man set and the forthcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender collaborations, Wizards is changing direction with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This time it’s just a single precon, but it includes six distinct legendary cards that can serve as your Commander based on how you combine them (five of the 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 set at $69.99, though the price may rise based on popularity. Sources told that it contains 43 brand-new cards altogether, which means an extra 37 TMNT-themed cards in addition to the six legendary creatures pictured above. (Calculating roughly, that also means about 20 reprinted cards if we estimate the deck comes with 37 lands.)

What will the Turtles edition of the iconic Sol Ring appear? We’ll just have to wait and find out.

TMNT Bundle (Regular)

Typically, the company is offering a collection. This one is priced at $69.99 and contains the following:

• 9 Standard Boosters
• 15 Foil basic lands
• Fifteen Non-foil basic lands
• 2 Reference cards
• One Foil promo card
• 1 Oversized life tracker
• 1 storage box

Pizza 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 is priced at $99.99 and includes the items below:

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

If you’re wondering what a “Pizza Bundle promo card” is, it’s basically a reprint of an older card featuring all-new Turtle-themed art. The team showed one for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual depicting master Splinter sprinkling toppings onto a pizza slice. There are six distinct Pizza Bundle promo cards in total.

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

Draft Night

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

• 12 Standard Boosters (the perfect amount four people to draft)
• 1 Premium Booster (aka, the prize for winning)
• Ninety Non-foil land cards (to build your draft deck)
• 10 Non-foil token cards
• 1 drafting guide (a single-page instruction sheet to drafting this expansion)

Cooperative Play Set

Lastly, Wizards are doing something new with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as part of its ongoing effort to create Magic game products specifically for new players. In this case, Turtle Team-Up is a unique product of prebuilt decks that let you and a friend join forces to face a “Boss” deck that pilots itself.

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