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Everyone's beloved pizza-loving superheroes are arriving to Magic: The Gathering. The popular TCG's publisher, Wizards of the Coast, announced a highly anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion during a special panel held at New York Comic Con. Is this a exciting new set or yet another crossover cash grab? We'll let you decide.

Check out here at all the details announced from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, along with key background. Everything listed below launches on March 6, 2026, with one exception — a special Pizza Bundle arrives a few weeks later on March 27th.

Magic x TMNT: Core Set Cards

Before we get into the many special decks and collections on offer, let’s take a look at all the cards from the main Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion that were revealed by the developers. Standard booster packs for the expansion are priced at $6.99 per pack, while Collector Boosters should run $37.99 per booster.

Let’s explore a few shell-shocking features. First, a new gameplay mechanic called Sneak Attack, inspired by the already established Ninjutsu ability, where gamers can play powerful creatures onto the game field whenever an attacking creature goes unblocked. The key change in this case is that Sneak can apply to spells that aren’t creatures too. The designers also took the opportunity to refine the mechanic a bit (Sneak counts as casting, unlike the older mechanic). Ninjutsu 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 the Kamigawa plane, we might use the original ability because that's where it originated and it’s a hallmark of that world,” a senior designer stated. “But on other planes, since the mechanics are smoother and Sneak is what's going to be in standard, it’s probable that we'd use the updated version.”

Another version of the leader Turtle, Sewer Samurai, is one of four special cards with special art created exclusively for the set by TMNT co-creator the co-creator.

Additionally, if you're shocked by the card text on Turtles Forever, which allows playing cards that aren't in your main deck, many players were. But according to Wizards, it’s now a legal card in all formats of Magic.

Anyway, below are the extremely bizarre land cards with full art from the TMNT set:

Following Wizards of the Coast's existing guidelines, these cards are all legal in Magic’s Standard play. The designers say they took care to ensure the new cards and mechanics meshed well with current Standard expansions like Edge of Eternities.

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

For example, each of TMNT and Edge of Eternities feature a blue-red strategy focused on artifact cards.

“They combine to provide the pieces for a enjoyable Standard-legal deck,” he added.

Preconstructed Commander: Turtle Power

After declining to design any Commander precons for the Spider-Man set and the upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, the company is reversing course with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only a single precon, but it includes six distinct legendary creatures who could work as your Commander depending on how you pair them (five cards have a special Partner mechanic named “Character Select” that lets you start 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 that could easily go up based on demand. Sources told that it includes 43 new cards in total, which means an additional thirty-seven TMNT-themed game cards in addition to the six legendary commanders shown earlier. (Doing some rough math, that also means approximately 20 reprints if we estimate the deck comes with 37 lands.)

How will the Turtles version of Sol Ring look like? Fans must wait and see.

TMNT Bundle (Regular)

As per usual, the company is offering a bundle. This one costs $69.99 and includes the listed items:

• 9 Standard Boosters
• Fifteen Traditional foil land cards
• 15 Regular land cards
• Two Reference cards
• 1 Foil promo card
• One Oversized spindown life counter
• One storage box

Pizza-Themed Bundle

This is a special idea for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, primarily because it comes in what looks like a pizza box. Every Pizza Bundle is priced at $99.99 and includes the following:

• 9 Play Boosters
• 1 Premium Booster
• Twenty-five Non-foil pizza-themed lands
• 5 Foil pizza basic lands
• Two Foil pizza bundle promotional cards
• Two helper cards
• One Oversized spindown life counter
• 1 storage box

If you’re wondering about the “pizza bundle promo” means, it’s essentially a reprinted older card featuring brand-new Turtle-themed artwork. Wizards revealed one for the popular Magic card Dark Ritual featuring art of master Splinter adding black licorice pieces on a pizza slice. In total, there are six different Pizza Bundle promo cards in total.

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

Draft Night

This special bundle is made for a four-player draft and costs $119.99. It includes:

• 12 Play Boosters (ideal for a group of four to draft)
• 1 Premium Booster (aka, the prize for winning)
• Ninety Non-foil basic lands (to build your draft deck)
• Ten Non-foil double-sided tokens
• 1 Draft insert (a single-page instruction sheet to drafting this expansion)

Cooperative Play Set

Lastly, the developers are doing something new with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as in line with its continued initiative to develop Magic products specifically for beginners. Here, Turtle Team-Up is a unique product of prebuilt decks that let you and a friend join forces against a “Boss” deck that pilots itself.

The general idea here that each Boss card grants special abilities to the creature cards contained in the Boss deck. The Boss automatically casts an additional card each turn, and players begin fighting {one Boss|