Magic: The Gathering has a busy 2026 planned, but the last set to be revealed was a crossover with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Yes, it marks our second trip to New York in less than a year, thanks to last year's Spider-Man set (seriously, there are infinite dimensions we could travel to!), but the Heroes in a Half Shell are doing things a little differently.
Not only does it offer our first Universes Beyond Commander Deck since Final Fantasy, but there are some new product types to check out as well.
Here's everything you can currently preorder, ready for release day on March 6, alongside some handy previews for the new set as well.
MTG x TMNT Preorders in a Half Shell
As you can probably imagine, there are more products coming than you can shake a Bo Staff at launching on March 6, with pre-release ongoing now between February 27 to March 5.
The foundation, as expected, is Play Boosters, which you can currently preorder for $143.84 at Amazon. That's much lower than its initial $209.70 list price back when preorders first went live, but not as good as its low of $125 we saw just a few weeks back. It might be worth holding out to see if these drop any further after release day.
You can also grab the now-customary booster bundle, which includes a promo card, a series of nine Play Boosters, a storage box and a spindown life counter.
That’s dropped to $62.99 right now, making it an even more appealing gift option for a Turtle-loving Magic player in your life (there are dozens of us!).
We promised something new, and here it is: The Turtle Team-Up box, which offers co-op gameplay where "2-4 players battle for survival against an onslaught of villainous adversaries".
It's still $49.99 at Amazon, and includes four pre-built 60-card hero decks, one Enemy deck with 11 bosses, seventeen Event Cards, and four 14-card boosters.
Also new this time is a Pizza Bundle, which includes 9 Play Boosters, 1 Collector Booster, 25 non-foil Pizza lands (yes, really), five foil Pizza lands, 2 foil promo cards, and a spindown life counter.
Amazon had this for $99.99, but they're all gone – almost certainly because there's a single Collector Booster inside. TCGplayer has them for around $135 right now, but with Amazon restocking every so often, it's worth checking back to see if you can get a better deal.
Quite surprisingly, Collector Boosters are back in stock and are even discounted right now if you preorder from Amazon. Down to $413.94, it's still fairly expensive, but a bit better than the original $455.88 list price. The fact that these are even in stock is remarkable!
As a reminder, Collector Boosters include alternate art treatments and foils, but they're functionally the same cards. Buy them, or don't, but don't feel like you have to spend almost $500 for a box just to play this great card game.
Draft Night, a new boxed product that made its debut in January’s Lorwyn, is also included in the MTG x TMNT line up. It has a bunch of packs (twelve in total) to play sealed draft, and a Collector Booster for the winner to take home. It’s dropped to $98.04 recently, and now back in stock at Amazon.
TMNT is Getting a Commander Deck, Here's What's Included
Finally, Commander players can expect a return to precon decks… but just one. After being absent since Edge of Eternities, there’s a new precon coming, which is a five-color deck called Turtle Power! It’s currently up for preorder at $54.89, a fairly sizable $15 plus off its original list price. I'd snap this up at this price ASAP, as that's a great deal.
Wizards has the decklist live now, but the big focus is on teamwork, so you can have a pair of Heroes in a Half Shell to be your Commanders. We’ve not been able to see how the deck plays, but we do know that your Commander of choice can be any of the Turtles, two of them partnered up with the Partner ability, or all five with the Heroes in a Half Shell card.
There’s nothing truly revolutionary about this modular approach (swapping Commander precons to use other Legendary Creatures within them as their leader is part of the fun of the format), but having five options for Turtles means that no one is left behind.
That includes the likes of Splinter (who has the Partner mechanic, too), but also members of the TMNT’s rogues gallery like Baxter, Fly in the Ointment, Leatherhead, Iron Gator, and, of course, Shredder, Shadow Master.
There are also some fun nods to the gaming history of the awesome foursome. Electric Seaweed from the hard-as-nails NES game makes an appearance to strike fear into gamers of a certain age, while other cards reference the squad’s love of arcade machines, like High Score and, uh, Arcade Cabinet.
Will the deck play well? We’ll have to wait to find out, but in terms of cramming as much personality into a single precon as possible, I think Wizards of the Coast may have just nailed the assignment.
This TMNT Card Is a Dream for Artifact Creature Decks Like Warhammer 40K's Necron Dynasties
A few months ago, we pointed out a ridiculous combo between Sonic the Hedgehog and Warhammer 40K’s Winged Hive Tyrant, but we might just have something that matches it in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, launching this week.
Artifact Creatures in Magic: The Gathering are essentially just that – a blend of two card types. That means cards that affect Artifacts, and those that buff Creatures, will help power them up nicely.
We mention this because Krang, Utrom Warlord, could be quite ridiculous when paired with a deck focused on Artifact Creatures, like Necron Dynasties from the Warhammer 40K Universes Beyond Commander deck lineup.
Krang, Utrom Warlord is a nine-cost (expensive, yes), but has the keywords Flying, Trample, Indestructible, and Haste. Oh, and it’s a 9/9.
That’s a pain to deal with on its own, but the card also gives other Artifact Creatures you control Flying, Trample, Indestructible and Haste.
For context, almost every single creature in the Necron Dynasties deck is an Artifact Creature, so dropping Kang onto the battlefield alongside them could be a potential game-ender.
It feels like it’ll find a spot in a lot of decks based around that creature type, given it’s colorless, too, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see it climb in value somewhat.
As for Necron Dynasties, you’ll need to find it on the secondary market these days, but the mono-black deck was already plenty powerful already. We also featured another 40K deck in our Top 12 Most Powerful MTG Commander Decks breakdown, Tyranid Swarm.
Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He's a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife's dismay.
