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The world's beloved pizza-loving heroes are coming to the popular trading card game. The popular TCG's publisher, Wizards of the Coast, unveiled a much-awaited Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration during a exclusive panel held at NYCC. Is this a exciting addition or yet another crossover cash grab? Let you decide.

Check out below at all the details revealed from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, along with some useful background. Everything mentioned here launches on March 6, 2026, except for one item — the Pizza Bundle arrives a few weeks later on March 27th.

MTG x TMNT: Main Set Reveals

Before we get into all the various special decks and collections available, let’s take a look at all the cards from the main Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion unveiled by Wizards. Play boosters for the expansion are priced at $6.99 each, while premium boosters should run $37.99 per pack.

Let's unpack a few surprising features. First, a new gameplay mechanic named Sneak Attack, which is a riff on the pre-existing Ninjutsu ability, in which gamers can cheat big creatures onto the game field when an attacker isn’t blocked. The key change in this case is that Sneak can apply to spells that aren’t creatures as well. The designers also used this chance to refine the mechanic a bit (It is treated as playing a spell, unlike Ninjutsu). The original ability isn't going away, but it's more likely players will encounter Sneak in future sets from now on.

Should we go back to Kamigawa, it’s possible we’d use the original ability since that's where it was developed and it is iconic to that,” a senior game designer explained. “But on other planes, because the mechanics are smoother and Sneak will be in standard, it’s probable that we'd use Sneak.”

That second variant of the leader Turtle, Sewer Samurai, is among four special cards with special art created exclusively for the set by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles original artist the co-creator.

Oh, and, if you're shocked by the card text on Turtles Forever, which lets you play cards outside of your deck, many players were. Yet as per the developers, it’s now a legal card in every format of Magic.

Anyway, here are the highly unusual land cards with full art from the TMNT set:

As per Wizards of the Coast's existing guidelines, all these cards are fully legal in Magic’s Standard play. Developers say they took care to make sure the new cards and mechanics worked smoothly with other Standard sets like Edge of Eternities.

“I headed the development for over a year and we were aware it would be Standard-legal and what other sets were going to be near it in Standard,” the designer says. “Our goal was to make sure that there's synergy with certain expansions like Edge of Eternities.”

For example, both TMNT and Edge of Eternities include a blue-red archetype focused on artifacts.

“They combine to offer the components for a enjoyable Standard-legal deck,” the designer added.

Commander Deck: Turtle Power

After declining to design any Commander precons for the Spider-Man set and the forthcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender collaborations, Wizards is reversing course with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only a single precon, but it includes six different legendary cards that can serve as your Commander based on how you pair them (five cards include a unique partner ability named “Character Select” that lets you start with two of them in the command area instead of only one). Take a look below:

This Commander precon is priced at $69.99, though that could easily go up based on popularity. Sources indicated that it includes 43 brand-new cards in total, which means an extra thirty-seven TMNT-themed cards besides the six legendary creatures shown above. (Calculating roughly, this suggests approximately 20 reprints if we estimate the precon comes with 37 lands.)

What will the TMNT version of the iconic Sol Ring look like? We’ll just have to wait and see.

Standard Bundle (Regular)

Typically, the company is selling a collection. This one costs $69.99 and contains the listed items:

• Nine Standard Boosters
• Fifteen Traditional foil land cards
• 15 Non-foil land cards
• Two helper cards
• 1 Traditional foil promotional card
• 1 Oversized life tracker
• 1 storage box

Pizza Bundle

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

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

If you’re wondering what a “pizza bundle promo” is, it’s basically a reprint of an older card featuring brand-new TMNT artwork. Wizards revealed one for the well-known Magic card Dark Ritual featuring art of master Splinter adding black licorice pieces on a pizza. There are six distinct Pizza Bundle promo cards in total.

The Pizza Bundle releases a couple of weeks later than the core set on March 27, 2026.

Draft Bundle

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

• 12 Standard Boosters (ideal for four people to draft)
• One Collector Booster (also known as, the reward for coming in first)
• Ninety Regular basic lands (for building your deck)
• 10 Non-foil double-sided tokens
• One drafting guide (a one-sheet instruction sheet to drafting this expansion)

Cooperative Play Set

Lastly, the developers are doing something new with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as part of its ongoing effort to develop Magic products aimed at beginners. In this case, the cooperative set is a special set of prebuilt decks that allow two players team up to face a “Boss” deck that plays automatically.

The general idea is that every Boss card gives unique powers to the creature cards contained in the Boss deck. The Boss automatically casts one other card per turn, and you’ll start off fighting {one Boss|