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The world's beloved pizza-eating superheroes are arriving to Magic: The Gathering. The well-known trading card game's publisher, Wizards of the Coast, revealed a much-awaited Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration during a special event hosted at New York Comic Con. Could this be a radical addition or simply another crossover marketing move? We'll let you be the judge.

Check out below at all the details revealed from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, along with some useful background. Everything listed here releases on March 6th, 2026, with one exception — the Pizza Bundle arrives a couple of weeks after on March 27th.

Magic x TMNT: Core Set Cards

Before we get into all the various unique products and bundles 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 expansion are set at $6.99 per pack, while premium boosters are priced at $37.99 per pack.

Let’s explore a couple of surprising features. First, there's a new mechanic named Sneak Attack, inspired by the already established Ninjutsu, where gamers can play powerful creatures onto the battlefield when an attacker goes unblocked. The big difference here is that Sneak can affect non-creature spells too. The designers also used this chance to clean up the mechanic a bit (It is treated as casting, as opposed to the older mechanic). The original ability is staying, but chances are players will encounter Sneak in upcoming expansions from now on.

Should we go back to the Kamigawa plane, it’s possible we’d use the original ability since that's where it originated and it is iconic of that world,” a senior designer stated. “However on other planes, since the mechanics are smoother and Sneak is what's going to be in standard, it’s probable we’ll use the updated version.”

That second variant of Leonardo, Sewer Samurai, is among four cards with special art designed specifically for the expansion by TMNT original artist Kevin Eastman.

Additionally, should you be surprised by the card text on Turtles Forever, which lets you play cards outside of your deck, so was I. Yet as per the developers, that's now a legal card in every format of Magic.

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

As per Wizards of the Coast'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 meshed well with other Standard sets such as Edge of Eternities.

“I headed the design for 15 months and we were aware it was going to be Standard-legal and what other sets were going to be alongside it in standard,” a lead designer says. “Our goal was to make sure that there's synergy with certain expansions like Edge of Eternities.”

For example, each of TMNT and Edge of Eternities include a blue-red strategy focused on artifact cards.

“They mesh together to provide the pieces for a fun Standard deck,” the designer added.

Preconstructed Commander: Turtle Power

After declining to create any Commander precons for the Spider-Man set and the forthcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, Wizards is reversing course with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only one precon, but it does come with six different legendary creatures that can serve as your commander depending on how you pair them (five of the cards have a special partner ability named “Character Select” that allows starting with two commanders in the command area instead of only one). Take a look below:

The Turtle Power precon is priced at $69.99, although that could easily go up due to popularity. Sources indicated that it contains 43 new cards altogether, which means an additional 37 Turtle-themed cards besides the six legendary commanders pictured earlier. (Calculating roughly, that also means approximately 20 reprinted cards if we estimate the deck comes with 37 lands.)

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

TMNT Bundle (Regular)

As per usual, Wizards is offering a bundle. It costs $69.99 and contains the following:

• Nine Play Boosters
• Fifteen Traditional foil land cards
• Fifteen Regular land cards
• Two Reference cards
• One Foil promo card
• 1 Oversized spindown life counter
• 1 Card-storage box

Pizza-Themed Bundle

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

• 9 Standard Boosters
• One Premium Booster
• Twenty-five Regular pizza lands
• Five Traditional foil pizza-themed lands
• 2 Foil pizza bundle promotional cards
• 2 helper cards
• One Large spindown life counter
• 1 Card-storage box

If you’re wondering what a “Pizza Bundle promo card” means, it’s essentially a reprinted older card featuring all-new Turtle-themed art. Wizards showed an example for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual featuring art of Splinter sprinkling black licorice pieces onto a pizza slice. There are six different Pizza Bundle promo cards available.

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

Draft Bundle

This special bundle is designed for a four-player draft and costs $119.99. It includes:

• Twelve Standard Boosters (the perfect amount a group of four to play draft)
• One Collector Booster (aka, the reward for coming in first)
• 90 Non-foil basic lands (to build your deck)
• Ten Non-foil token cards
• One drafting guide (a one-sheet guide 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 game products aimed at beginners. In this case, Turtle Team-Up is a special set of prebuilt decks that let you and a friend join forces against a “Boss” deck that plays automatically.

The concept here that each Boss card grants special abilities to the creature cards contained in the boss deck. Each Boss automatically plays an additional card per turn, and players begin fighting {one Boss|