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The world's favorite pizza-eating heroes are coming to Magic: The Gathering. The well-known TCG's publisher, Wizards of the Coast, announced a highly anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion at a exclusive panel hosted at NYCC. Could this be a radical new set or yet another Universes Beyond marketing move? Let you be the judge.

Take a look here at everything announced from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, including key context. All items listed below launches on March 6, 2026, with one exception — a special Pizza Bundle drops a couple of weeks after on March 27.

Magic x TMNT: Core Set Cards

Before we get into all the various unique products and collections available, we’ll examine at the full lineup from the core Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set unveiled by Wizards. Standard booster packs for the set are set at $6.99 each, while premium boosters are priced at $37.99 per booster.

Let's unpack a couple of surprising details. To begin, there's a new mechanic called Sneak, inspired by the already established Ninjutsu ability, in which gamers can play powerful creatures onto the game field whenever an attacking creature isn’t blocked. The big difference here is that this new ability can affect non-creature spells as well. The designers also used this chance to clean up the mechanic a bit (It counts as casting, unlike Ninjutsu). Ninjutsu is staying, but chances are we'll see the new mechanic in future sets moving forward.

“If we ever were to return to the Kamigawa plane, it’s possible we’d use Ninjutsu since that plane is it was developed and it is iconic of that world,” a senior designer stated. “But on other planes, because the rules are cleaner and Sneak will be in standard, it’s probable we’ll use Sneak.”

Another version of Leonardo, Sewer Samurai card, is one of four special cards with unique artwork designed exclusively 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 allows playing cards that aren't in your deck, so was I. But as per Wizards, it’s now a official card in every format of Magic.

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

As per Wizards of the Coast's existing guidelines, all these cards are all legal in Magic’s Standard play. Developers say they took care to make sure the new cards and mechanics worked smoothly with current Standard expansions such as Edge of Eternities.

“I led the development for over a year and we were aware it was going to be in standard and which sets would be alongside it in Standard,” the designer commented. “Our goal was to ensure that there's synergy with certain expansions including Edge of Eternities.”

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

“They combine to offer the components for a fun Standard deck,” the designer added.

Preconstructed Commander: Turtle Power

Following a decision to design any pre-constructed Commander decks for Spider-Man and the forthcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender collaborations, Wizards is reversing course with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only a single precon, but it includes six distinct legendary cards who could work as your Commander based on how you combine them (five of the cards include a unique Partner mechanic named “Character Select” that lets you start with two of them in the command zone instead of just one). Check them out below:

This Commander deck is priced at $69.99, though that could easily go up based on popularity. Sources indicated that it contains 43 new cards altogether, which means an additional 37 Turtle-themed game cards besides the six legendary creatures shown earlier. (Doing some rough math, this suggests about 20 reprinted cards if we assume the precon includes 37 land cards.)

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

TMNT Bundle (Regular)

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

• Nine Standard Boosters
• 15 Foil basic lands
• 15 Non-foil basic lands
• Two helper cards
• 1 Foil promo card
• 1 Large spindown life counter
• 1 Card-storage box

Pizza-Themed Bundle

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

• Nine Standard Boosters
• One Collector Booster
• 25 Non-foil pizza-themed lands
• 5 Traditional foil pizza-themed lands
• 2 Traditional foil pizza bundle promo cards
• 2 helper cards
• One Oversized life tracker
• One Card-storage box

For those curious what a “Pizza Bundle promo card” means, it’s essentially a reprint of an older card with brand-new Turtle-themed art. Wizards revealed one for the popular Magic card Dark Ritual depicting master Splinter sprinkling toppings on a pizza. In total, there are six different Pizza Bundle promo cards available.

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

Draft Night

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

• 12 Standard Boosters (the perfect amount four people to draft)
• One Premium Booster (also known as, the reward for coming in first)
• Ninety Regular land cards (for building your draft deck)
• Ten Non-foil token cards
• One drafting guide (a one-sheet guide to drafting the set)

Cooperative Play Set

Lastly, the developers are doing something new with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as in line with its ongoing effort to develop Magic products specifically for new players. In this case, Turtle Team-Up is a unique product of prebuilt decks that let you and a friend join forces against a “Boss” deck that plays automatically.

The concept is that each Boss card gives unique powers to the creature cards contained in the Boss deck. The Boss automatically plays an additional card each turn, and players begin fighting {one Boss|