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Everyone's beloved pizza-eating superheroes are coming to Magic: The Gathering. The well-known TCG's company, the game's creators, announced a much-awaited Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration at a exclusive panel hosted at New York Comic Con. Could this be a radical new set or yet another crossover cash grab? 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 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.

MTG x TMNT: Main Set Reveals

Before diving into all the various unique products and collections available, we’ll examine at the full lineup from the main Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion unveiled by the developers. Standard booster packs for the expansion are priced at $6.99 per pack, while premium boosters are priced at $37.99 per booster.

Let’s explore a couple of surprising details. To begin, there's a new mechanic called Sneak Attack, inspired by the pre-existing Ninjutsu, in which players can play powerful creatures onto the game field when an attacker isn’t blocked. The key change here is that this new ability can affect spells that aren’t creatures as well. The designers also took the opportunity to clean up the mechanic a bit (It counts as playing a spell, as opposed to Ninjutsu). Ninjutsu is staying, but it's more likely players will encounter Sneak in upcoming expansions from now on.

“If we ever were to return to the Kamigawa plane, it’s possible we’d use the original ability because that's where it originated and it’s a hallmark to that,” an experienced game designer stated. “However on other planes, since the mechanics are smoother and the new ability will be Standard-legal, it’s probable we’ll use the updated version.”

That second variant of Leonardo, Sewer Samurai, is one of four special cards with special art designed specifically for the set by TMNT original artist the co-creator.

Oh, and, should you be surprised by the rules text on Turtles Forever, which lets you play cards that aren't in your main deck, so was I. Yet as per the developers, it’s now a legal card in all formats of Magic.

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

Following Wizards of the Coast's existing guidelines, all these cards are fully legal in Magic’s Standard format. Developers state they were careful to make sure the new cards and mechanics worked smoothly with other Standard sets like Edge of Eternities.

“I led the development for 15 months and we knew it was going to be in standard and which sets would be alongside it in Standard,” a lead designer commented. “Our goal was to ensure that they work well with some of those sets like Edge of Eternities.”

As an instance, both TMNT and Edge of Eternities include a blue-red strategy built around artifacts.

“They combine to provide the pieces for a enjoyable Standard deck,” the designer says.

Preconstructed Commander: Turtle Power

After declining to design any Commander precons for the Spider-Man set and the upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, the company is reversing course with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only a single precon, but it does come with six different legendary creatures that can serve as your Commander depending on how you pair them (five cards include a unique partner ability called “Character Select” that allows starting with two of them in the command area rather than only one). Check them out below:

This Commander deck is set at $69.99, although that could easily go up due to demand. Sources told that it includes 43 brand-new cards in total, which means an extra 37 TMNT-themed game cards besides the six legendary creatures shown above. (Doing some rough math, this suggests approximately 20 reprints if we assume the precon includes 37 lands.)

What will the TMNT edition of Sol Ring appear? We’ll just have to wait and see.

TMNT Bundle (Standard Edition)

Typically, the company is selling a collection. It is priced at $69.99 and includes the following:

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

Pizza-Themed Bundle

Here’s a unique concept for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, mostly in that it is packaged in what looks like a pizza box. Every Pizza Bundle is priced at $99.99 and comes with the following:

• Nine Play Boosters
• 1 Premium Booster
• Twenty-five Regular pizza-themed lands
• Five Traditional foil pizza-themed lands
• Two Foil Pizza Bundle promotional cards
• Two helper cards
• One Oversized spindown life counter
• One storage box

If you’re wondering about the “Pizza Bundle promo card” means, it’s basically a reprint of an older card with brand-new Turtle-themed artwork. The team showed an example for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual depicting Splinter sprinkling toppings on a pizza. There are six different pizza promos available.

The Pizza Bundle launches a few weeks after the core set on March 27, 2026.

Draft Night

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

• 12 Standard Boosters (ideal for a group of four to play draft)
• 1 Collector Booster (aka, the reward for coming in first)
• Ninety Regular land cards (for building your deck)
• 10 Regular token cards
• One Draft insert (a one-sheet instruction sheet to drafting the set)

Cooperative Play Set

Lastly, the developers are doing something new with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as in line with its continued initiative to develop Magic products specifically for new players. In this case, Turtle Team-Up is a special set of prebuilt decks that allow two players join forces against a “Boss” enemy deck that pilots itself.

The general idea here that each Boss card gives unique powers to the creatures contained in the boss deck. The Boss automatically casts one other card each turn, and players begin battling {one Boss|