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Everyone's favorite pizza-loving heroes are arriving to the popular trading card game. The popular trading card game's publisher, the game's creators, announced a much-awaited Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion at a exclusive event hosted at NYCC. Could this be a radical new set or yet another crossover cash grab? Let you be the judge.

Take a look here at all the details revealed from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, along with key background. All items listed here launches on March 6, 2026, except for one item — the Pizza Bundle drops a few weeks later on March 27.

MTG x TMNT: Core Set Cards

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

Let's unpack a few shell-shocking features. First, a new gameplay mechanic named Sneak Attack, which is a riff on the already established Ninjutsu ability, where gamers can play big creatures into the game field whenever an attacking creature isn’t blocked. The big difference here is that this new ability can apply to spells that aren’t creatures too. Wizards also used this chance to clean up the ability a little (It is treated as playing a spell, unlike the older mechanic). The original ability isn't going away, but it's more likely we'll see Sneak in future sets from now on.

“If we ever go back to Kamigawa, it’s possible we’d use the original ability because that's where it originated and it’s a hallmark of that world,” an experienced designer explained. “However in other settings, since the rules are cleaner and Sneak is what's going to be in standard, it's more likely that we'd use Sneak.”

Another version of Leonardo, Sewer Samurai, is one of four special cards with special art created specifically for the expansion by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman.

Additionally, if you're shocked by the card text on Turtles Forever card, which allows playing game cards outside of your main deck, many players were. But according to Wizards, it’s now a official card in all formats of Magic.

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

As per Wizards of the Coast's current policy, all these cards are fully legal in Magic’s Standard play. The designers say they were careful to make sure the cards and gameplay elements meshed well with other Standard sets like Edge of Eternities.

“I led the design for over a year and we were aware it was going to be in standard and what other 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.”

As an instance, each of TMNT and Edge of Eternities include a blue-red archetype built around artifact cards.

“They mesh together to provide the components for a enjoyable Standard deck,” he says.

Commander Deck: Turtle Power

Following a decision to design any pre-constructed Commander decks for Spider-Man and the forthcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, Wizards is changing direction with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only one precon, but it includes six different legendary creatures who could work as your Commander depending on how you pair them (five cards have a special Partner mechanic named “Character Select” that lets you start with two commanders in the command area rather than only one). Check them out below:

The Turtle Power precon is set at $69.99, although that could easily go up due to demand. Wizards told that it includes 43 brand-new cards in total, which translates to an additional thirty-seven Turtle-themed game cards besides the six legendary creatures pictured earlier. (Doing some rough math, that also means about 20 reprinted cards if we estimate the deck includes 37 land cards.)

What will the Turtles edition of Sol Ring look like? Fans must wait and see.

Standard Bundle (Regular)

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

• Nine Play Boosters
• Fifteen Traditional foil land cards
• Fifteen Non-foil basic lands
• 2 helper cards
• 1 Foil promotional card
• 1 Oversized life tracker
• One storage box

Pizza-Themed Bundle

Here’s a unique concept for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, primarily because it is packaged in a box resembling a pizza box. Each pizza-themed bundle costs $99.99 and includes the items below:

• 9 Standard Boosters
• One Collector Booster
• 25 Regular pizza lands
• Five Traditional foil pizza basic lands
• Two Traditional foil pizza bundle promo cards
• Two Reference cards
• 1 Oversized spindown life counter
• 1 storage box

If you’re wondering what a “pizza bundle promo” is, it’s basically a reprinted older card with brand-new Turtle-themed art. The team revealed one for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual depicting master Splinter sprinkling toppings on a pizza. There are six different pizza promos available.

This special 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 is priced at $119.99. That will get you:

• Twelve Play Boosters (the perfect amount a group of four to draft)
• One Collector Booster (aka, the prize for coming in first)
• 90 Non-foil basic lands (for building your deck)
• Ten Non-foil double-sided tokens
• 1 Draft insert (a one-sheet instruction sheet to drafting this expansion)

Cooperative Play Set

Lastly, the developers are doing something new with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as part of its ongoing effort to develop Magic game products aimed at beginners. Here, the cooperative set is a unique product of decks that let you and a friend join forces to face a “Boss” enemy deck that plays automatically.

The general idea here that every Boss card grants special abilities to the creature cards contained in the Boss deck. The Boss automatically casts one other card each turn, and players begin fighting {one Boss|