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Everyone's beloved pizza-eating heroes are coming to Magic: The Gathering. The popular TCG's company, Wizards of the Coast, unveiled a highly anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion at a exclusive event hosted at NYCC. Is this a exciting addition or yet another crossover cash grab? Let you be the judge.

Take a look below 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, except for one item — a special Pizza Bundle drops a couple of weeks after on March 27.

Magic x TMNT: Core Set Reveals

Before diving into the many unique products and collections on offer, 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 per pack, while premium boosters should run $37.99 per pack.

Let's unpack a couple of surprising details. First, there's a new mechanic called Sneak, which is a riff on the pre-existing Ninjutsu, in which gamers can cheat powerful creatures onto the battlefield whenever an attacker goes unblocked. The big difference in this case is that this new ability can affect non-creature spells too. Wizards also took the opportunity to clean up the mechanic a bit (It is treated as playing a spell, unlike Ninjutsu). Ninjutsu isn't going away, but it's more likely players will encounter the new mechanic in upcoming expansions from now on.

Should we go back to the Kamigawa plane, we might use Ninjutsu because that plane is it originated and it is iconic of that world,” an experienced designer stated. “However in other settings, because the rules are cleaner and Sneak is what's going to be Standard-legal, it's more likely that we'd use the updated version.”

That second variant of the leader Turtle, Sewer Samurai, is among four cards with special art designed exclusively for the set by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles original artist Kevin Eastman.

Additionally, if you're shocked by the rules text on Turtles Forever card, which lets you play game cards outside of your main deck, many players were. But as per the developers, it’s now a official card in all formats of Magic.

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

Following Wizards of the Coast's existing guidelines, all these cards are fully legal in Magic’s Standard format. The designers say they took care to ensure the new cards and gameplay elements worked smoothly with other Standard sets like Edge of Eternities.

“I led the design for over a year and we were aware it would be Standard-legal and which sets would be alongside it in standard,” a lead designer says. “Our goal was to make sure that there's synergy with certain expansions like Edge of Eternities.”

As an instance, each of TMNT and Edge of Eternities include a Izzet strategy built around artifacts.

“They combine to provide the components for a fun Standard deck,” he says.

Commander Deck: Turtle Power

Following a decision to create any pre-constructed Commander decks for the Spider-Man set and the forthcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, the company is changing direction with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only a single precon, but it does come with six different legendary cards who could work as your commander based on how you pair them (five of the cards include a unique partner ability named “Character Select” that allows starting with two commanders in the command zone rather than only one). Check them out below:

The Turtle Power precon is set at $69.99, although the price may rise due to demand. Sources told that it includes 43 brand-new cards in total, which translates to an extra 37 Turtle-themed game cards in addition to the six legendary creatures shown earlier. (Doing some rough math, that also means approximately 20 reprinted cards if we assume the deck comes with 37 land cards.)

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

TMNT Bundle (Regular)

Typically, the company is offering a collection. This one is priced at $69.99 and includes the listed items:

• Nine Standard Boosters
• Fifteen Foil land cards
• Fifteen Non-foil land cards
• 2 Reference cards
• One Foil promotional card
• 1 Oversized spindown life counter
• 1 storage box

Pizza Bundle

This is a unique concept for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, primarily because it comes in what looks like a pizza box. Each Pizza Bundle is priced at $99.99 and comes with the items below:

• 9 Standard Boosters
• 1 Collector Booster
• 25 Regular pizza-themed lands
• Five Traditional foil pizza-themed lands
• Two Foil Pizza Bundle promotional cards
• Two helper cards
• One Oversized spindown life counter
• One Card-storage box

For those curious about the “pizza bundle promo” is, it’s basically a reprinted older card with all-new TMNT art. Wizards showed an example for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual depicting master Splinter adding toppings onto a pizza. There are six distinct Pizza Bundle promo cards available.

This special bundle releases a few weeks after the core set on March 27, 2026.

Draft Bundle

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

• 12 Play Boosters (ideal for four people to draft)
• One Premium Booster (also known as, the prize for coming in first)
• 90 Regular basic lands (to build your deck)
• Ten Regular double-sided tokens
• 1 drafting guide (a single-page guide to drafting the set)

Cooperative Play Set

Lastly, Wizards are introducing a new concept with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as in line with its continued initiative to develop Magic game products aimed at beginners. Here, Turtle Team-Up is a unique product of prebuilt decks that allow two players join forces against a “Boss” enemy deck that pilots itself.

The concept is that each Boss card grants unique powers to the creature cards included in the boss deck. Each Boss automatically casts one other card per turn, and you’ll start off battling {one Boss|