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Everyone's beloved pizza-eating heroes are coming to the popular trading card game. The popular trading card game's company, the game's creators, unveiled a much-awaited Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion during a special event hosted at New York Comic Con. Could this be a radical addition or yet another Universes Beyond cash grab? We'll let you decide.

Check out below at everything revealed from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, including some useful background. All items mentioned below launches on March 6, 2026, with one exception — a special Pizza Bundle drops a few weeks later on March 27.

MTG x TMNT: Core Set Reveals

Before diving into the many special decks and bundles available, let’s take a look at the full lineup from the core Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set that were revealed by Wizards. Play boosters for the set are set at $6.99 each, while premium boosters should run $37.99 per booster.

Let's unpack a few shell-shocking details. To begin, there's a new mechanic named Sneak, which is a riff on the already established Ninjutsu ability, where gamers can cheat big creatures onto the game field when an attacking creature goes unblocked. The key change in this case is that this new ability can affect spells that aren’t creatures too. The designers also used this chance to clean up the mechanic a bit (It counts as playing a spell, as opposed to the older mechanic). Ninjutsu isn't going away, but it's more likely we'll see the new mechanic in future sets moving forward.

“If we ever were to return to Kamigawa, it’s possible we’d use Ninjutsu because that's where it originated and it is iconic to that,” a senior designer stated. “But in other settings, since the rules are cleaner and the new ability will be Standard-legal, it’s probable that we'd use the updated version.”

Another version of the leader Turtle, Sewer Samurai card, is one of 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 allows playing game cards that aren't in your deck, so was I. Yet as per Wizards, that's now a official card in every format of Magic.

Anyway, here are the highly unusual full-art lands from this set:

Following the company’s current policy, these cards are all legal in Magic’s Standard play. The designers state they were careful to make sure the new cards and mechanics worked smoothly with other Standard sets like Edge of Eternities.

“I headed the development for over a year and we knew it was going to be Standard-legal and which sets were going to be near it in standard,” the designer commented. “Our goal was to make sure that there's synergy with certain expansions including Edge of Eternities.”

As an instance, both TMNT and Edge of Eternities feature a Izzet archetype built around artifacts.

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

Commander Deck: Turtle Power

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

This Commander deck is priced at $69.99, though the price may rise due to demand. Sources told that it includes 43 new cards in total, which translates to an additional 37 Turtle-themed cards in addition to the six legendary creatures pictured above. (Doing some rough math, that also means approximately 20 reprints if we estimate the deck includes 37 lands.)

What will the TMNT edition of Sol Ring appear? Fans must wait and see.

Standard Bundle (Standard Edition)

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

• Nine Standard Boosters
• 15 Traditional foil basic lands
• Fifteen Non-foil land cards
• Two helper cards
• 1 Traditional foil promo card
• One Oversized spindown life counter
• One Card-storage box

Pizza-Themed Bundle

Here’s a special idea for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, mostly in that it comes in a box resembling a pizza delivery box. Each pizza-themed bundle is priced at $99.99 and comes with the items below:

• Nine Standard Boosters
• 1 Premium Booster
• Twenty-five Non-foil pizza lands
• Five Foil pizza-themed lands
• 2 Foil pizza bundle promo cards
• 2 Reference cards
• One Oversized life tracker
• One storage box

For those curious what a “pizza bundle promo” means, it’s basically a reprint of an older card with brand-new TMNT art. Wizards showed one for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual featuring art of master Splinter sprinkling black licorice pieces onto a pizza. In total, there are six distinct Pizza Bundle promo cards available.

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

Draft Bundle

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

• 12 Play Boosters (the perfect amount four people to draft)
• One Premium Booster (aka, the reward for winning)
• 90 Regular basic lands (to build your draft deck)
• Ten Non-foil token cards
• One Draft insert (a single-page instruction sheet to drafting the set)

Cooperative Play Set

Finally, Wizards are introducing a new concept with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as part of its ongoing effort to develop Magic game products aimed at beginners. In this case, Turtle Team-Up is a special set of prebuilt decks that allow two players team up to face a “Boss” deck that pilots itself.

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