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Everyone's beloved pizza-eating heroes are coming to Magic: The Gathering. The well-known TCG's company, Wizards of the Coast, revealed a highly anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration at a exclusive event hosted at New York Comic Con. Is this a radical addition or simply another crossover cash grab? Let you decide.

Take a look here at all the details announced from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, including some useful context. All items mentioned here launches on March 6, 2026, except for one item — the Pizza Bundle drops a couple of weeks after on March 27th.

MTG x TMNT: Core Set Cards

Before diving into all the various unique products and bundles on offer, let’s take a look at all the cards from the core Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set unveiled by Wizards. Play boosters for the set are priced at $6.99 each, while Collector Boosters are priced at $37.99 per booster.

Let’s explore a few shell-shocking details. First, a new gameplay mechanic called Sneak Attack, inspired by the pre-existing Ninjutsu ability, in which players can cheat big creatures onto the game field when an attacker goes unblocked. The big difference in this case is that Sneak can apply to non-creature spells too. Wizards also used this chance to clean up the ability a bit (It counts as casting, unlike the older mechanic). Ninjutsu is staying, but it's more likely players will encounter the new mechanic in upcoming expansions from now on.

Should we go back to the Kamigawa plane, we might use Ninjutsu since that's where it was developed and it’s a hallmark to that,” a senior game designer stated. “But on other planes, since the rules are cleaner and Sneak will be Standard-legal, it's more likely we’ll use Sneak.”

That second variant of the leader Turtle, Sewer Samurai card, is among four cards with special art created exclusively for the expansion by TMNT original artist the co-creator.

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

In any case, below are the extremely bizarre land cards with full art from the TMNT set:

As per the company’s existing guidelines, all these cards are all legal in Magic’s Standard play. Developers state they took care to ensure the cards and mechanics worked smoothly with other Standard sets like Edge of Eternities.

“I led the development for over a year and we were aware it was going to be in standard and what other sets would be alongside it in Standard,” a lead designer commented. “We designed to make sure that they work well with certain expansions including Edge of Eternities.”

As an instance, each of TMNT and Edge of Eternities feature a blue-red strategy focused on artifact cards.

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

Commander Deck: Turtle Power

Following a decision to create any Commander precons for the Spider-Man set and the upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, Wizards is changing direction with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This time it’s just a single precon, but it does come with six distinct legendary cards that can serve as your commander based on how you combine them (five cards include a unique partner ability named “Character Select” that allows starting with two of them in the command zone instead of only one). Check them out below:

This Commander deck is priced at $69.99, though that could easily go up due to popularity. Sources indicated that it contains 43 new cards altogether, which means an additional thirty-seven TMNT-themed game cards besides the six legendary commanders shown earlier. (Doing some rough math, that also means about 20 reprinted cards if we assume the deck includes 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, Wizards is selling a collection. It is priced at $69.99 and includes the following:

• 9 Play Boosters
• Fifteen Traditional foil land cards
• Fifteen Non-foil land cards
• Two helper cards
• One Foil promo card
• One Large spindown life counter
• 1 storage box

Pizza-Themed Bundle

Here’s a special idea for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, primarily because it is packaged in a box resembling a pizza delivery box. Every Pizza Bundle costs $99.99 and includes the items below:

• Nine Play Boosters
• One Collector Booster
• Twenty-five Non-foil pizza-themed lands
• Five Foil pizza basic lands
• Two Traditional foil pizza bundle promo cards
• 2 helper cards
• One Large life tracker
• One storage box

If you’re wondering about the “Pizza Bundle promo card” is, it’s basically a reprinted older card with brand-new Turtle-themed artwork. Wizards showed an example for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual featuring art of master Splinter sprinkling black licorice pieces on a pizza. 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 unique product is made for a four-person draft and costs $119.99. That will get you:

• 12 Standard Boosters (ideal for four people to play draft)
• 1 Collector Booster (aka, the reward for winning)
• Ninety Regular basic lands (to build your draft deck)
• Ten 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 in line with its ongoing effort to create Magic game products aimed at new players. In this case, the cooperative set is a unique product of prebuilt decks that let you and a friend join forces to face a “Boss” enemy deck that plays automatically.

The concept is that every Boss card gives special abilities to the creature cards included in the Boss deck. Each Boss automatically casts one other card per turn, and players begin battling {one Boss|