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The world's favorite pizza-eating heroes are coming to the popular trading card game. The popular TCG's publisher, the game's creators, revealed a much-awaited Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration at a special event held at NYCC. Could this be a exciting new set or yet another Universes Beyond cash grab? We'll let you decide.

Check out here at everything revealed from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, including key background. All items listed below releases on March 6th, 2026, except for one item — the Pizza Bundle arrives a couple of weeks after on March 27.

Magic x TMNT: Core Set Cards

Before we get into the many unique products and collections on offer, we’ll examine at the full lineup from the core Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion that were revealed by Wizards. Standard booster packs for the set are set at $6.99 each, while Collector Boosters should run $37.99 per booster.

Let’s explore a few surprising features. First, there's a new mechanic named Sneak, which is a riff on the pre-existing Ninjutsu, in which players can play powerful creatures onto the game field whenever an attacker isn’t blocked. The big difference in this case is that Sneak can apply to non-creature spells as well. The designers also took the opportunity to clean up the mechanic a little (Sneak is treated as casting, unlike Ninjutsu). The original ability is staying, but it's more likely players will encounter Sneak in upcoming expansions from now on.

“If we ever were to return to Kamigawa, it’s possible we’d use Ninjutsu because that's where it was developed and it is iconic of that world,” a senior game designer stated. “But in other settings, since the rules are cleaner and Sneak is what's going to be Standard-legal, it's more likely we’ll use Sneak.”

Another version of the leader Turtle, Sewer Samurai card, is one of four special cards with unique artwork designed specifically for the expansion by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman.

Additionally, if you're shocked by the rules text on Turtles Forever, which lets you play game cards outside of your deck, so was I. Yet as per Wizards, that's now a legal card in all formats of Magic.

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

As per the company’s existing guidelines, these cards are fully legal in Magic’s Standard play. Developers say they took care to make sure the cards and mechanics worked smoothly with current Standard expansions like Edge of Eternities.

“I led the development for 15 months and we were aware it would be in standard and what other sets were going to be near it in Standard,” the designer commented. “Our goal was to ensure that they work well with some of those sets including Edge of Eternities.”

For example, both TMNT and Edge of Eternities feature a Izzet archetype focused on artifacts.

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

Commander Deck: Turtle Power

Following a decision to design any Commander precons for Spider-Man and the upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, the company is changing direction with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only one precon, but it does come with six distinct legendary creatures that can serve as your Commander depending on how you pair them (five cards include a unique partner ability named “Character Select” that allows starting with two commanders in the command zone instead of just one). Take a look for yourself:

This Commander precon is priced at $69.99, though the price may rise based on demand. Wizards indicated that it includes 43 new cards altogether, which means an additional thirty-seven Turtle-themed cards in addition to the six legendary creatures pictured above. (Calculating roughly, that also means about 20 reprinted cards if we estimate the precon includes 37 land cards.)

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

TMNT Bundle (Standard Edition)

As per usual, Wizards is offering a collection. This one costs $69.99 and contains the listed items:

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

Pizza Bundle

This is a unique concept for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, primarily because it comes in a box resembling a pizza delivery box. Each pizza-themed bundle costs $99.99 and comes with the items below:

• Nine Play Boosters
• One Premium Booster
• Twenty-five Non-foil pizza lands
• Five Traditional foil pizza-themed lands
• Two Foil Pizza Bundle promo cards
• Two Reference cards
• One Large life tracker
• 1 Card-storage box

For those curious what a “pizza bundle promo” is, it’s essentially a reprinted older card with all-new TMNT artwork. The team showed one for the popular Magic card Dark Ritual depicting Splinter adding black licorice pieces onto a pizza. There are six distinct pizza promos available.

This special bundle releases a few weeks after the main set on March 27, 2026.

Draft Bundle

This unique product is made for a four-person draft and is priced at $119.99. That will get you:

• Twelve Play Boosters (ideal for a group of four to draft)
• 1 Premium Booster (also known as, the reward for winning)
• 90 Non-foil land cards (for building your deck)
• Ten Non-foil token cards
• One Draft insert (a one-sheet instruction sheet to drafting the set)

Turtle Team-Up

Finally, the developers are doing something new with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as in line with its ongoing effort to develop Magic products specifically for beginners. In this case, the cooperative set is a unique product of decks that let you and a friend team up against a “Boss” deck that plays automatically.

The general idea is that every Boss card grants special abilities to the creatures contained in the Boss deck. Each Boss automatically casts one other card each turn, and players begin battling {one Boss|