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Everyone's beloved pizza-loving heroes are making their way to Magic: The Gathering. The popular TCG's company, Wizards of the Coast, revealed a much-awaited Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion at a special event held at NYCC. Could this be a exciting new set or simply another crossover marketing move? Let you decide.

Take a look below at everything revealed from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, including key context. Everything mentioned below releases on March 6th, 2026, with one exception — a special Pizza Bundle drops a couple of weeks after on March 27.

MTG x TMNT: Main Set Reveals

Before diving into all the various unique products and collections on offer, let’s take a look at all the cards from the core Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set unveiled by Wizards. Standard booster packs for the expansion are priced at $6.99 per pack, while Collector Boosters are priced at $37.99 per pack.

Let's unpack a couple of surprising details. To begin, there's a new mechanic called Sneak Attack, which is a riff on the pre-existing Ninjutsu ability, in which players can play powerful creatures into the battlefield when an attacking creature goes unblocked. The big difference here is that Sneak can apply to non-creature spells as well. The designers also took the opportunity to refine the ability a little (It is treated as casting, unlike Ninjutsu). The original ability isn't going away, but it's more likely we'll see the new mechanic in upcoming expansions from now on.

Should we go back to the Kamigawa plane, we might use the original ability since that's where it originated and it is iconic to that,” an experienced game designer stated. “But in other settings, since the rules are cleaner and the new ability will 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 special art created exclusively for the expansion by TMNT original artist Kevin Eastman.

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, so was I. Yet according to Wizards, it’s now a legal card in every format of Magic.

In any case, below are the extremely bizarre land cards with full art from this set:

As per the company’s current policy, all these cards are fully legal in Magic’s Standard format. Developers say they took care to ensure the new cards and mechanics worked smoothly with other Standard sets such as Edge of Eternities.

“I headed the development for over a year and we were aware it would be in standard and which sets would be alongside it in standard,” a lead designer says. “We designed to make sure that there's synergy with certain expansions including Edge of Eternities.”

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

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

Commander Deck: Turtle Power

After declining to create any Commander precons for Spider-Man and the upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, Wizards is changing direction with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only one precon, but it does come with six different legendary creatures who could work as your Commander depending on how you combine them (five cards have a special partner ability named “Character Select” that allows starting with two of them in the command area rather than just one). Check them out for yourself:

The Turtle Power precon is priced at $69.99, though that could easily go up due to demand. Sources told that it contains 43 new cards altogether, which means an additional 37 TMNT-themed game cards in addition to the six legendary commanders pictured above. (Doing some rough math, this suggests approximately 20 reprinted cards if we assume the precon comes with 37 land cards.)

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

Standard Bundle (Standard Edition)

As per usual, the company is selling a collection. It costs $69.99 and includes the listed items:

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

Pizza Bundle

Here’s a unique concept for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, primarily because it is packaged in a box resembling a pizza delivery box. Each Pizza Bundle costs $99.99 and includes the following:

• Nine Standard Boosters
• 1 Premium Booster
• 25 Non-foil pizza-themed lands
• Five Foil pizza basic lands
• Two Foil pizza bundle promo cards
• Two Reference cards
• 1 Large spindown life counter
• One Card-storage box

For those curious what a “pizza bundle promo” is, it’s essentially a reprinted older card featuring all-new TMNT artwork. The team showed one for the popular Magic card Dark Ritual depicting Splinter sprinkling toppings onto a pizza. There are six different pizza promos available.

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

Draft Bundle

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

• 12 Standard Boosters (the perfect amount four people to draft)
• 1 Premium Booster (also known as, the prize for winning)
• Ninety Regular land cards (for building your deck)
• Ten Regular double-sided tokens
• One Draft insert (a single-page instruction sheet to drafting this expansion)

Turtle Team-Up

Lastly, the developers are introducing a new concept with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as in line with its ongoing effort to create Magic game products aimed at beginners. Here, Turtle Team-Up is a special set of prebuilt decks that allow two players team up against a “Boss” deck that plays automatically.

The concept is that each Boss card grants unique powers to the creatures contained in the boss deck. The Boss automatically plays an additional card each turn, and players begin battling {one Boss|