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Everyone's beloved pizza-eating superheroes are arriving to the popular trading card game. The popular TCG's publisher, the game's creators, announced a highly anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion during a special panel hosted at New York Comic Con. Is this a radical addition or yet another crossover cash grab? Let you be the judge.

Check out here at everything announced from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, along with some useful background. Everything mentioned here launches on March 6th, 2026, with one exception — the Pizza Bundle arrives a couple of weeks after on March 27th.

Magic x TMNT: Core Set Reveals

Before we get into the many special decks and bundles available, let’s take a look at all the cards from the core Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set unveiled by the developers. Standard booster packs for the expansion are priced at $6.99 each, while Collector Boosters should run $37.99 per booster.

Let's unpack a couple of surprising details. To begin, a new gameplay mechanic named Sneak, inspired by the pre-existing Ninjutsu ability, where gamers can cheat powerful creatures into the game field when an attacker isn’t blocked. The key change here is that Sneak can apply to spells that aren’t creatures too. The designers also used this chance to clean up the ability a bit (Sneak is treated as casting, unlike Ninjutsu). Ninjutsu isn't going away, but chances are we'll see the new mechanic in upcoming expansions from now on.

Should we were to return to Kamigawa, we might use the original ability since that plane is it was developed and it is iconic to that,” a senior game designer explained. “However in other settings, because the mechanics are smoother and Sneak will be Standard-legal, it's more likely we’ll use the updated version.”

Another version of the leader Turtle, Sewer Samurai card, is among four special cards with unique artwork designed exclusively for the set by TMNT original artist Kevin Eastman.

Additionally, if you're shocked by the rules text on Turtles Forever card, which lets you play cards that aren't in your main deck, many players were. Yet as per the developers, it’s now a legal card in every format of Magic.

In any case, here are the highly unusual full-art lands from the TMNT set:

As per Wizards of the Coast's current policy, all these cards are fully legal in Magic’s Standard format. Developers state they took care to make sure the new cards and mechanics meshed well with current Standard expansions like Edge of Eternities.

“I headed the development for over a year and we knew it was going to be in standard and which sets were going to be alongside it in Standard,” a lead designer says. “We designed to make sure that they work well with some of those sets including Edge of Eternities.”

As an instance, each of TMNT and Edge of Eternities include a blue-red strategy focused on artifacts.

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

Commander Deck: Turtle Power

Following a decision to design any pre-constructed Commander decks for the Spider-Man set and the forthcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender collaborations, the company is reversing course with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This time it’s just one precon, but it does come with six different legendary cards that can serve as your Commander depending on how you combine them (five cards have a special Partner mechanic named “Character Select” that allows starting with two of them in the command zone rather than just one). Check them out below:

The Turtle Power precon is set at $69.99, although that could easily go up due to popularity. Sources told that it includes 43 brand-new cards in total, which translates to an additional thirty-seven Turtle-themed cards besides the six legendary commanders shown earlier. (Doing some rough math, this suggests approximately 20 reprints if we estimate the deck includes 37 lands.)

How will the TMNT version of the iconic Sol Ring appear? Fans must wait and find out.

Standard Bundle (Standard Edition)

Typically, Wizards is offering a bundle. This one costs $69.99 and contains the listed items:

• 9 Standard Boosters
• 15 Traditional foil basic lands
• 15 Regular land cards
• Two Reference cards
• One Foil promo card
• 1 Large spindown life counter
• One 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. Each pizza-themed bundle costs $99.99 and includes the items below:

• 9 Standard Boosters
• 1 Collector Booster
• Twenty-five Non-foil pizza lands
• 5 Foil pizza basic lands
• Two Traditional foil pizza bundle promotional cards
• 2 helper cards
• 1 Oversized life tracker
• One Card-storage box

For those curious what a “Pizza Bundle promo card” is, it’s essentially a reprint of an older card with all-new TMNT art. The team showed one for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual featuring art of Splinter adding toppings onto a pizza slice. In total, there are six different 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 designed for a four-player draft and is priced at $119.99. It includes:

• Twelve Standard Boosters (the perfect amount a group of four to draft)
• One Premium Booster (aka, the reward for coming in first)
• 90 Non-foil basic lands (for building your draft deck)
• 10 Non-foil double-sided tokens
• 1 Draft insert (a one-sheet guide to drafting the set)

Turtle Team-Up

Finally, the developers are introducing a new concept with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as part of its ongoing effort to create Magic game products aimed at beginners. Here, the cooperative set is a special set of decks that allow two players join forces against a “Boss” deck that pilots itself.

The concept here that each Boss card gives unique powers to the creature cards contained in the Boss deck. The Boss automatically plays an additional card per turn, and players begin fighting {one Boss|