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Everyone's favorite pizza-eating heroes are coming to the popular trading card game. The well-known trading card game's publisher, the game's creators, unveiled a highly anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion during a special panel held at NYCC. Could this be a radical new set or yet another crossover cash grab? Let you be the judge.

Check out below at all the details announced from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, including key background. Everything listed below releases on March 6, 2026, with one exception — a special Pizza Bundle drops a couple of weeks after on March 27.

MTG x TMNT: Main Set Cards

Before we get into the many unique products and bundles available, let’s take a look at the full lineup from the core Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set unveiled by the developers. Standard booster packs for the set are priced at $6.99 per pack, while premium boosters should run $37.99 per pack.

Let's unpack a few shell-shocking features. To begin, a new gameplay mechanic called Sneak, inspired by the pre-existing Ninjutsu ability, where gamers can play big creatures into the game field whenever an attacker isn’t blocked. The big difference here is that Sneak can apply to non-creature spells as well. Wizards also used this chance to refine the ability a bit (Sneak counts as playing a spell, unlike the older mechanic). Ninjutsu isn't going away, but it's more likely players will encounter Sneak in upcoming expansions from now on.

Should we were to return to Kamigawa, we might use the original ability because that plane is it was developed and it is iconic of that world,” a senior designer explained. “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 Leonardo, Sewer Samurai, is among four special cards with unique artwork created specifically for the expansion by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles original artist the co-creator.

Oh, and, if you're shocked by the card text on Turtles Forever, which lets you play cards that aren't in your main deck, many players were. But according to Wizards, that's now a official card in all formats of Magic.

In any case, here are the highly unusual full-art lands from this set:

As per the company’s existing guidelines, all these cards are all legal in Magic’s Standard play. The designers state they were careful to ensure the new cards and gameplay elements worked smoothly with current Standard expansions such as Edge of Eternities.

“I headed the design for 15 months and we knew it would be in standard and which sets were going to be alongside it in Standard,” the designer says. “We designed to ensure that there's synergy with some of those sets like Edge of Eternities.”

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

“They mesh together to offer the pieces for a enjoyable Standard deck,” he added.

Commander Deck: Turtle Power!

Following a decision to create any Commander precons for Spider-Man and the forthcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, Wizards is changing direction with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This time it’s just one precon, but it includes six different legendary cards who could work as your Commander based on how you combine them (five cards have a special Partner mechanic named “Character Select” that allows starting with two commanders in the command zone instead of only one). Check them out below:

This Commander precon is set at $69.99, although the price may rise due to demand. Sources indicated that it contains 43 brand-new cards in total, which means an extra thirty-seven Turtle-themed game cards besides the six legendary commanders pictured above. (Doing some rough math, this suggests about 20 reprinted cards if we assume the precon includes 37 lands.)

How will the TMNT edition of the iconic Sol Ring appear? Fans must wait and find out.

Standard Bundle (Standard Edition)

As per usual, Wizards is offering a collection. This one is priced at $69.99 and includes the following:

• 9 Play Boosters
• 15 Traditional foil land cards
• Fifteen Regular basic lands
• Two helper cards
• 1 Foil promo card
• 1 Oversized life tracker
• 1 Card-storage box

Pizza Bundle

Here’s a special idea for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, mostly in that it is packaged in what looks like a pizza box. Every Pizza Bundle is priced at $99.99 and comes with the items below:

• Nine Standard Boosters
• One Collector Booster
• Twenty-five Non-foil pizza-themed lands
• 5 Foil pizza basic lands
• Two Foil pizza bundle promo cards
• 2 Reference cards
• One Large life tracker
• One storage box

For those curious what a “pizza bundle promo” means, it’s essentially a reprinted older card with all-new Turtle-themed art. The team showed an example for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual featuring art of Splinter adding black licorice pieces onto a pizza. In total, there are six different pizza promos available.

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

Draft Bundle

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

• 12 Standard Boosters (ideal for a group of four to play draft)
• 1 Premium Booster (aka, the prize for winning)
• 90 Non-foil land cards (for building your draft deck)
• Ten Regular double-sided tokens
• 1 Draft insert (a single-page instruction sheet to drafting this expansion)

Cooperative Play Set

Finally, the developers are doing something new with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as part of its continued initiative to develop Magic game products specifically for new players. In this case, the cooperative set is a unique product of prebuilt decks that allow two players join forces to face a “Boss” deck that pilots itself.

The general idea here that each Boss card gives unique powers to the creatures included in the boss deck. The Boss automatically casts an additional card each turn, and players begin fighting {one Boss|