Everyone's favorite pizza-eating heroes are making their way to the popular trading card game. The well-known trading card game's publisher, Wizards of the Coast, revealed a much-awaited Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansion during a special panel held at New York Comic Con. Could this be a exciting new set or simply another Universes Beyond cash grab? Let you decide.
Take a look here at everything revealed from the Magic x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, including some useful context. All items mentioned below launches on March 6th, 2026, with one exception — the Pizza Bundle drops a few weeks later on March 27.
Before diving into all the various special decks and collections available, let’s take a look at the full lineup from the core Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set that were revealed by Wizards. Standard booster packs for the set are set at $6.99 per pack, while premium boosters should run $37.99 per booster.
Let’s explore a couple of surprising details. First, there's a new mechanic called Sneak, which is a riff on the pre-existing Ninjutsu ability, in which players can cheat big creatures into the game field when an attacking creature isn’t blocked. The key change here is that Sneak can affect non-creature spells as well. Wizards also took the opportunity to refine the mechanic a little (Sneak is treated as casting, unlike the older mechanic). Ninjutsu is staying, but it's more likely players will encounter Sneak in upcoming expansions moving forward.
“If we ever go back to the Kamigawa plane, it’s possible we’d use Ninjutsu because that's where it originated and it’s a hallmark to that,” an experienced designer explained. “But in other settings, because the rules are cleaner and Sneak will be Standard-legal, it’s probable that we'd use the updated version.”
That second variant of the leader Turtle, Sewer Samurai card, is one of four cards with special art designed specifically for the set by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman.
Additionally, should you be surprised by the rules text on Turtles Forever, which allows playing game cards outside of your deck, many players were. Yet according to Wizards, that's now a legal card in all formats of Magic.
Anyway, here are the highly unusual land cards with full art from this set:
As per Wizards of the Coast's existing guidelines, all these cards are all legal in Magic’s Standard format. The designers state they were careful to make sure the cards and mechanics meshed well with other Standard sets like Edge of Eternities.
“I led the development for 15 months and we were aware it was going to be in standard and which sets would be near it in Standard,” a lead designer commented. “Our goal was to ensure that there's synergy with some of those sets like Edge of Eternities.”
For example, each of TMNT and Edge of Eternities include a Izzet archetype focused on artifacts.
“They mesh together to offer the components for a enjoyable Standard-legal deck,” the designer says.
Following a decision to create any pre-constructed Commander decks for Spider-Man and the forthcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender expansions, the company is changing direction with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s only a single precon, but it does come with six distinct legendary cards who could work as your commander depending on how you pair them (five of the cards have a special Partner mechanic named “Character Select” that allows starting with two commanders in the command area instead of only one). Check them out below:
This Commander deck is priced at $69.99, although that could easily go up due to demand. Sources indicated that it contains 43 new cards in total, which means an extra 37 TMNT-themed game cards in addition to the six legendary commanders shown above. (Calculating roughly, that also means about 20 reprinted cards if we assume the deck comes with 37 lands.)
How will the Turtles version of Sol Ring appear? Fans must wait and find out.
Typically, Wizards is selling a collection. This one is priced at $69.99 and contains the listed items:
This is a special idea for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, primarily because it is packaged in what looks like a pizza delivery box. Each pizza-themed bundle is priced at $99.99 and comes with the items below:
If you’re wondering about the “Pizza Bundle promo card” means, it’s basically a reprinted older card featuring brand-new TMNT art. Wizards showed an example for the popular Magic card Dark Ritual depicting Splinter sprinkling black licorice pieces onto a pizza slice. There are six different Pizza Bundle promo cards available.
This special bundle releases a couple of weeks later than the main set on March 27, 2026.
This special bundle is made for a four-player draft and costs $119.99. That will get you:
Lastly, the developers are doing something new with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as in line with its continued initiative to develop Magic game products specifically for beginners. In this case, Turtle Team-Up is a unique product of prebuilt decks that allow two players join forces to face a “Boss” enemy deck that plays automatically.
The concept is that each Boss card grants special abilities to the creature cards contained in the Boss deck. The Boss automatically plays one other card each turn, and you’ll start off battling {one Boss|
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