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The world's favorite pizza-loving heroes are coming to the popular trading card game. The well-known trading card game's publisher, Wizards of the Coast, announced a much-awaited Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion at a special panel hosted at NYCC. Is this a radical addition or simply another Universes Beyond marketing move? We'll let you decide.

Check out here at everything announced from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, along with some useful context. Everything listed below launches on March 6, 2026, with one exception — a special Pizza Bundle drops a few weeks later on March 27.

Magic x TMNT: Core Set Cards

Before diving into all the various special decks and bundles on offer, we’ll examine at all the cards from the main Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion unveiled by Wizards. Play boosters for the set are set at $6.99 each, while Collector Boosters are priced at $37.99 per booster.

Let's unpack a few surprising features. First, there's a new mechanic named Sneak Attack, inspired by the already established Ninjutsu ability, in which players can cheat powerful creatures into the battlefield when an attacking creature isn’t blocked. The key change in this case is that Sneak can affect spells that aren’t creatures as well. The designers also used this chance to refine the mechanic a little (Sneak is treated as playing a spell, unlike Ninjutsu). Ninjutsu is staying, but it's more likely we'll see Sneak in upcoming expansions moving forward.

“If we ever were to return to Kamigawa, we might use Ninjutsu since that's where it was developed and it is iconic of that world,” a senior designer stated. “But in other settings, because the mechanics are smoother and Sneak is what's going to be Standard-legal, it’s probable that we'd use the updated version.”

That second variant of Leonardo, Sewer Samurai, is among four cards with unique artwork created specifically for the set by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator the co-creator.

Additionally, should you be surprised by the card text on Turtles Forever card, which allows playing game cards that aren't in your main deck, so was I. But according to the developers, that's now a official card in every format of Magic.

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

As per the company’s current policy, all these cards are fully legal in Magic’s Standard format. The designers state they were careful to make sure the cards and gameplay elements meshed well with current Standard expansions like Edge of Eternities.

“I headed the development for 15 months and we were aware it was going to be in standard and what other sets were going to be near it in standard,” a lead designer commented. “We designed to ensure that they work well with some of those sets like Edge of Eternities.”

As an instance, each of TMNT and Edge of Eternities feature a Izzet strategy built around artifact cards.

“They mesh together to provide the pieces for a fun Standard deck,” the designer says.

Preconstructed Commander: Turtle Power

After declining to design any Commander precons for the Spider-Man set and the forthcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, the company is changing direction with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This time it’s just one precon, but it includes six different legendary creatures who could work as your commander depending on how you combine them (five of the cards include a unique partner ability called “Character Select” that lets you start with two commanders in the command zone instead of only one). Take a look for yourself:

This Commander deck is priced at $69.99, though the price may rise due to demand. Sources told that it includes 43 brand-new cards in total, which translates to an extra thirty-seven TMNT-themed game cards besides the six legendary commanders shown earlier. (Doing some rough math, that also means about 20 reprinted cards if we assume the precon includes 37 lands.)

What will the TMNT version of the iconic Sol Ring appear? We’ll just have to wait and find out.

TMNT Bundle (Regular)

As per usual, the company is offering a collection. It is priced at $69.99 and includes the listed items:

• 9 Standard Boosters
• Fifteen Foil land cards
• 15 Regular basic lands
• 2 helper cards
• One Foil promotional card
• One Oversized spindown life counter
• 1 Card-storage box

Pizza-Themed Bundle

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

• 9 Standard Boosters
• One Premium Booster
• 25 Non-foil pizza-themed lands
• Five Foil pizza-themed lands
• 2 Traditional foil pizza bundle promotional cards
• Two Reference cards
• 1 Oversized spindown life counter
• One Card-storage box

For those curious what a “pizza bundle promo” means, it’s essentially a reprinted older card featuring brand-new TMNT artwork. The team showed one for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual depicting Splinter adding toppings on a pizza. There are six distinct Pizza Bundle promo cards in total.

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

Draft Bundle

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

• Twelve Standard Boosters (the perfect amount a group of four to draft)
• One Collector Booster (also known as, the reward for winning)
• Ninety Regular basic lands (to build your deck)
• 10 Non-foil double-sided tokens
• One Draft insert (a single-page guide to drafting this expansion)

Cooperative Play Set

Finally, the developers are doing something new with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as part of its ongoing effort to develop Magic game products specifically for new players. In this case, the cooperative set is a unique product of prebuilt decks that let you and a friend join forces to face a “Boss” enemy deck that plays automatically.

The concept here that every Boss card gives unique powers to the creatures contained in the boss deck. The Boss automatically casts an additional card per turn, and players begin battling {one Boss|