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Everyone's beloved pizza-eating heroes are making their way to Magic: The Gathering. The well-known TCG's company, Wizards of the Coast, revealed a highly anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration at a special event held at NYCC. Is this a exciting addition or simply another Universes Beyond marketing move? Let you decide.

Take a look here at all the details announced from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, along with some useful background. Everything listed below releases on March 6th, 2026, except for one item — the Pizza Bundle arrives a couple of weeks after on March 27.

MTG x TMNT: Core Set Cards

Before diving into all the various special decks and collections on offer, we’ll examine at all the cards from the core Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion that were revealed by the developers. Standard booster packs for the expansion are set at $6.99 per pack, while premium boosters should run $37.99 per pack.

Let's unpack a few surprising details. First, a new gameplay mechanic called Sneak Attack, inspired by the already established Ninjutsu, where players can play powerful creatures onto the battlefield when an attacking creature isn’t blocked. The big difference in this case is that Sneak can apply to non-creature spells too. Wizards also used this chance to clean up the ability a little (It is treated as casting, as opposed to Ninjutsu). Ninjutsu is staying, but it's more likely players will encounter Sneak in upcoming expansions from now on.

Should we were to return to the Kamigawa plane, it’s possible we’d use the original ability since that's where it was developed and it’s a hallmark to that,” an experienced designer explained. “But on other planes, since the mechanics are smoother and Sneak is what's going to be in standard, it's more likely we’ll use Sneak.”

Another version of the leader Turtle, Sewer Samurai, is among four cards with special art created specifically for the expansion by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles original artist the co-creator.

Additionally, should you be surprised by the card text on Turtles Forever card, which lets you play cards that aren't in your main deck, many players were. Yet as per Wizards, it’s now a legal card in every format of Magic.

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

Following the company’s existing guidelines, these cards are all legal in Magic’s Standard play. The designers say they were careful to ensure the cards and mechanics worked smoothly with other Standard sets such as Edge of Eternities.

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

As an instance, each of TMNT and Edge of Eternities feature a blue-red strategy focused on artifact cards.

“They combine to offer the components for a enjoyable 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 upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender collaborations, the company is changing direction with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only a single precon, but it does come with six distinct legendary creatures that can serve as your commander based on how you combine them (five cards include a unique partner ability named “Character Select” that allows starting with two of them in the command zone rather than just one). Check them out for yourself:

This Commander deck is priced at $69.99, although the price may rise due to demand. Wizards told that it includes 43 brand-new cards in total, which means an additional 37 TMNT-themed game cards besides the six legendary commanders shown earlier. (Calculating roughly, that also means about 20 reprints if we assume the deck includes 37 lands.)

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

Standard Bundle (Regular)

Typically, Wizards is offering a bundle. This one costs $69.99 and includes the listed items:

• 9 Play Boosters
• 15 Foil basic lands
• Fifteen Non-foil basic lands
• Two Reference cards
• 1 Traditional foil promo card
• 1 Large life tracker
• 1 Card-storage box

Pizza Bundle

This is a special idea for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, mostly in that it comes in a box resembling a pizza box. Every pizza-themed bundle costs $99.99 and includes the items below:

• 9 Play Boosters
• One Premium Booster
• Twenty-five Non-foil pizza lands
• Five Traditional foil pizza basic lands
• 2 Traditional foil Pizza Bundle promo cards
• 2 helper cards
• 1 Large spindown life counter
• 1 storage box

If you’re wondering about the “Pizza Bundle promo card” is, it’s basically a reprint of an older card featuring all-new Turtle-themed artwork. The team showed one for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual depicting master Splinter sprinkling toppings onto a pizza slice. In total, there are six different Pizza Bundle promo cards available.

The Pizza Bundle launches a couple of weeks later than the main set on March 27, 2026.

Draft Bundle

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

• Twelve Play Boosters (the perfect amount four people to draft)
• One Collector Booster (aka, the reward for winning)
• Ninety Regular land cards (to build your draft deck)
• 10 Regular double-sided tokens
• One drafting guide (a single-page instruction sheet to drafting this expansion)

Turtle Team-Up

Lastly, the developers are doing something new with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as part of its ongoing effort to create Magic game products specifically for beginners. Here, the cooperative set is a special set of decks that allow two players team up against a “Boss” enemy deck that plays automatically.

The concept is that every Boss card grants unique powers to the creatures included in the boss deck. The Boss automatically plays one other card each turn, and players begin fighting {one Boss|