The world's favorite pizza-loving superheroes are coming to the popular trading card game. The well-known trading card game's company, Wizards of the Coast, announced a highly anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion during a exclusive panel hosted at New York Comic Con. Could this be a exciting addition or simply another Universes Beyond cash grab? Let you be the judge.
Take a look below at everything revealed from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, including some useful background. All items mentioned here launches on March 6th, 2026, with one exception — the Pizza Bundle arrives a couple of weeks after on March 27th.
Before diving into all the various unique products and collections on offer, we’ll examine at the full lineup from the main Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set unveiled by the developers. Standard booster packs for the expansion are set at $6.99 each, while Collector Boosters are priced at $37.99 per booster.
Let's unpack a few surprising features. First, a new gameplay mechanic called Sneak Attack, inspired by the already established Ninjutsu, where players can play powerful creatures into the game field when an attacking creature goes unblocked. The key change in this case is that Sneak can affect non-creature spells too. Wizards also took the opportunity to refine the ability a bit (It counts as playing a spell, as opposed to the older mechanic). The original ability is staying, but it's more likely we'll see Sneak in future sets from now on.
“If we ever were to return to Kamigawa, it’s possible we’d use the original ability since that plane is it originated and it is iconic to that,” an experienced game designer explained. “But on other planes, since the rules are cleaner and Sneak will be Standard-legal, it’s probable that we'd use the updated version.”
Another version of Leonardo, Sewer Samurai card, is one of four cards with special art created exclusively for the set by TMNT original artist Kevin Eastman.
Oh, and, if you're shocked by the card text on Turtles Forever card, which lets you play cards outside of your deck, many players were. But according to Wizards, it’s now a official card in every format of Magic.
Anyway, here are the highly unusual full-art lands from this set:
As per the company’s current policy, all these cards are all legal in Magic’s Standard play. The designers state they took care to ensure the new cards and gameplay elements meshed well with current Standard expansions such as Edge of Eternities.
“I headed the design for 15 months and we were aware it would be Standard-legal and what other sets would be near it in Standard,” a lead designer commented. “Our goal was to make sure that they work well with certain expansions including Edge of Eternities.”
For example, each of TMNT and Edge of Eternities include a Izzet strategy focused on artifacts.
“They combine to offer the components for a fun Standard-legal deck,” the designer says.
After declining to create any Commander precons for the Spider-Man set and the upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, Wizards is reversing course with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only one precon, but it includes six distinct legendary cards that can serve as your Commander based on how you pair them (five of the cards include a unique Partner mechanic named “Character Select” that allows starting with two of them in the command zone rather than just one). Take a look below:
This Commander deck is priced at $69.99, though that could easily go up due to popularity. Sources told that it contains 43 brand-new cards in total, which translates to an additional thirty-seven Turtle-themed game cards besides the six legendary creatures shown earlier. (Doing some rough math, this suggests about 20 reprinted cards if we estimate the deck comes with 37 lands.)
How will the Turtles version of the iconic Sol Ring appear? We’ll just have to wait and find out.
Typically, the company is selling a collection. It is priced at $69.99 and includes the listed items:
Here’s a unique concept for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration, primarily because it comes in a box resembling a pizza box. Each pizza-themed bundle costs $99.99 and includes the following:
For those curious what a “Pizza Bundle promo card” means, it’s basically a reprint of an older card featuring all-new TMNT art. Wizards revealed an example for the popular Magic card Dark Ritual depicting Splinter sprinkling black licorice pieces on a pizza. There are six distinct pizza promos in total.
The Pizza Bundle launches a couple of weeks later than the main set on March 27, 2026.
This special bundle is designed for a four-person draft and is priced at $119.99. That will get you:
Finally, the developers are doing something new with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as part of its ongoing effort to create Magic game products specifically for beginners. In this case, Turtle Team-Up is a unique product of prebuilt decks that allow two players team up to face a “Boss” deck that pilots itself.
The general idea here that every Boss card grants special abilities to the creature cards contained in the boss deck. The Boss automatically plays an additional card per turn, and players begin battling {one Boss|
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