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The world's favorite pizza-loving heroes are making their way to the popular trading card game. The popular trading card game's company, the game's creators, announced a highly anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion at a exclusive panel held at NYCC. Could this be a radical addition or yet another crossover cash grab? We'll let you be the judge.

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

MTG x TMNT: Main Set Reveals

Before diving into all the various unique products and bundles on offer, let’s take a look at the full lineup from the core Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion that were revealed by the developers. Standard booster packs for the set are priced at $6.99 each, while premium boosters should run $37.99 per pack.

Let's unpack a couple of surprising details. First, there's a new mechanic called Sneak Attack, which is a riff on the already established Ninjutsu, where gamers can play powerful creatures onto the battlefield whenever an attacking creature isn’t blocked. The key change in this case is that Sneak can affect spells that aren’t creatures as well. Wizards also used this chance to refine the ability a little (Sneak counts as playing a spell, as opposed to Ninjutsu). Ninjutsu is staying, but it's more likely players will encounter the new mechanic in future sets from now on.

“If we ever go back to the Kamigawa plane, it’s possible we’d use Ninjutsu because that plane is it was developed and it’s a hallmark to that,” an experienced game designer stated. “However on other planes, because the mechanics are smoother and Sneak is what's going to be Standard-legal, it's more likely we’ll use the updated version.”

Another version of the leader Turtle, Sewer Samurai card, is one of four special cards with unique artwork created exclusively for the set by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator the co-creator.

Oh, and, should you be surprised by the rules text on Turtles Forever card, which allows playing cards that aren't in your deck, many players were. But according to Wizards, it’s now a official card in every format of Magic.

Anyway, here are the extremely bizarre land cards with full art from the TMNT set:

Following Wizards of the Coast's current policy, all these cards are fully legal in Magic’s Standard format. The designers say they took care to ensure the new cards and mechanics meshed well with other Standard sets such as Edge of Eternities.

“I led the design for over a year and we knew it would be Standard-legal and what other sets were going to be near it in standard,” a lead designer says. “Our goal was to make sure that there's synergy with certain expansions like Edge of Eternities.”

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

“They mesh together to offer the components for a enjoyable Standard-legal deck,” the designer says.

Commander Deck: Turtle Power

Following a decision to create any Commander precons for Spider-Man and the forthcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, Wizards is reversing course with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only one precon, but it includes six different legendary cards that can serve as your Commander depending on how you combine them (five of the cards have a special Partner mechanic named “Character Select” that allows starting with two of them in the command area instead of just one). Take a look for yourself:

The Turtle Power precon is priced at $69.99, although that could easily go up due to demand. Sources indicated that it contains 43 new cards altogether, which means an additional thirty-seven TMNT-themed cards in addition to the six legendary creatures pictured earlier. (Doing some rough math, that also means approximately 20 reprints if we assume the precon comes with 37 land cards.)

How will the TMNT version of the iconic Sol Ring appear? We’ll just have to wait and see.

Standard Bundle (Standard Edition)

Typically, the company is selling a collection. This one is priced at $69.99 and includes the listed items:

• Nine Play Boosters
• 15 Traditional foil land cards
• 15 Regular land cards
• Two Reference cards
• 1 Foil promo card
• One Large life tracker
• One Card-storage box

Pizza Bundle

Here’s a unique concept for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, primarily because it is packaged in a box resembling a pizza delivery box. Every pizza-themed bundle is priced at $99.99 and comes with the following:

• Nine Play Boosters
• One Premium Booster
• Twenty-five Regular pizza-themed lands
• 5 Traditional foil pizza basic lands
• Two Foil Pizza Bundle promotional cards
• Two Reference cards
• 1 Large life tracker
• 1 storage box

If you’re wondering what a “Pizza Bundle promo card” is, it’s basically a reprint of an older card featuring brand-new Turtle-themed art. Wizards revealed one for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual depicting Splinter adding toppings on a pizza slice. There are six distinct pizza promos available.

The Pizza Bundle releases a few weeks after the main set on March 27, 2026.

Draft Bundle

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

• 12 Play Boosters (ideal for four people to play draft)
• One Premium Booster (also known as, the prize for coming in first)
• Ninety Non-foil land cards (for building your deck)
• 10 Non-foil token cards
• 1 drafting guide (a single-page instruction sheet to drafting this expansion)

Turtle Team-Up

Lastly, Wizards are doing something new with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as part of its continued initiative to create Magic products aimed at new players. In this case, Turtle Team-Up is a unique product of prebuilt decks that allow two players team up against a “Boss” enemy deck that plays automatically.

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