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The world's beloved pizza-eating heroes are arriving to Magic: The Gathering. The popular trading card game's company, the game's creators, revealed a highly anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion during a exclusive panel hosted at NYCC. Could this be a radical addition or yet another Universes Beyond cash grab? We'll let you decide.

Take a look here at everything announced from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, including key background. Everything listed here launches on March 6, 2026, with one exception — a special Pizza Bundle drops a few weeks later on March 27th.

MTG x TMNT: Core Set Cards

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

Let's unpack a couple of shell-shocking features. First, a new gameplay mechanic called Sneak Attack, inspired by the pre-existing Ninjutsu ability, where players can cheat powerful creatures into the battlefield when an attacking creature isn’t blocked. The big difference here is that Sneak can affect non-creature spells too. The designers also used this chance to refine the ability a little (It counts as playing a spell, unlike the older mechanic). Ninjutsu isn't going away, but it's more likely we'll see the new mechanic in upcoming expansions moving forward.

Should we go back to Kamigawa, it’s possible we’d use Ninjutsu because that plane is it originated and it is iconic to that,” an experienced designer explained. “But on other planes, since the mechanics are smoother and Sneak is what's going to 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 set by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles original artist the co-creator.

Additionally, if you're shocked by the card text on Turtles Forever, which allows playing game cards outside of your deck, so was I. Yet according to the developers, that's now a legal card in all formats of Magic.

Anyway, here are the highly unusual full-art lands from this set:

Following Wizards of the Coast's existing guidelines, all these cards are fully legal in Magic’s Standard format. Developers state they took care to make sure the new cards and mechanics meshed well with current Standard expansions such as Edge of Eternities.

“I led the development for over a year and we were aware it would be in standard and which sets were going to be near it in standard,” the designer says. “Our goal was to make sure that they work well with some of those sets including Edge of Eternities.”

For example, each of TMNT and Edge of Eternities include a Izzet archetype built around artifact cards.

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

Commander Deck: Turtle Power

After declining to design any Commander precons for the Spider-Man set 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 pair them (five cards have a special partner ability named “Character Select” that lets you start with two of them in the command area rather than just one). Take a look below:

The Turtle Power deck is set at $69.99, though the price may rise due to demand. Wizards indicated that it contains 43 brand-new cards altogether, which translates to an additional thirty-seven TMNT-themed cards besides the six legendary commanders pictured above. (Doing some rough math, that also means about 20 reprints if we estimate the precon comes with 37 lands.)

What will the TMNT edition of Sol Ring look like? Fans must wait and find out.

TMNT Bundle (Regular)

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

• 9 Standard Boosters
• Fifteen Traditional foil basic lands
• Fifteen Regular land cards
• 2 Reference cards
• 1 Foil promo card
• One Large life tracker
• One storage box

Pizza-Themed Bundle

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

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

If you’re wondering what a “Pizza Bundle promo card” is, it’s basically a reprint of an older card with brand-new Turtle-themed art. Wizards revealed an example for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual depicting Splinter adding toppings onto a pizza. There are six distinct Pizza Bundle promo cards in total.

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

Draft Bundle

This special bundle is designed for a four-player draft and costs $119.99. That will get you:

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

Turtle Team-Up

Finally, the developers are introducing a new concept with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as in line with 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 to face a “Boss” enemy deck that pilots itself.

The concept here that every Boss card gives 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|