COWABUNGA! The heroes in a half shell are heading into the world’s premier collectible card game! Magic: The Gathering® | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brings decades of turtle power to your games of Magic. The development team behind the Hasbro-owned tabletop card game showed off a handful of cards from the Nickelodeon Universes Beyond set at New York Comic Con, which featured cards from the main set and its Commander deck. Now, WotC are taking these reveals beyond New York City (and its sewers) and straight to you!
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The team up marks the latest for Magic and Nickelodeon, which launched a SpongeBob SquarePants Secret Lair collaboration earlier this year and is set to launch an Avatar: The Last Airbender collaboration in November.
Per Wizards of the Coast’s description for the upcoming set, which will debut next March: “The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise spans generations, both in its media and in its fans. With this set, we’re reaching out to players both new and old to offer them a new style of Magic. Whether you’re a die-hard fan of Kevin Eastman’s art or a Turtles superfan who adores their recent animated incarnations, there’s a card in this set for you. This set draws from the entire history of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles media and offers a wide range of products to match. Brand-new offerings like the Turtle Team-Up product are perfect for playing across generations. If you grew up watching the adventures of Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo, you can share those stories with a new generation of Magic players.”
The initial reveal included a single preconstructed Commander deck featuring all four turtles, with a unique Partner ability called Character Select, which will allow players using the deck to mix and match their lead characters at will. The panel showed off a number of cards that span the pantheon of TMNT history, from the original Mirage Comics designs, multiple TV series, several films, all to The Last Ronin. Cards for all four turtles were also revealed, along with an exclusive look at the Villains in the set, including Super Shredder and the Foot Clan, Krang, and Bebop & Rocksteady as their own singular card together. Not to mention famous allies like Splinter, April O'Neil, and Casey Jones.
The MTG TMNT set will include Play Boosters, Collector Boosters, and a new Draft Night bundle for four-player drafts. There will also be a special Pizza Bundle on March 27, with Play Boosters, a Collector Booster, and more items contained in a TMNT-themed pizza box.
TMNT will also introduce a new product to Magic, the Turtle Team-Up co-op experience, where 2-4 players can team up with decks themed around each turtle and take on multiple villains from TMNT history who are represented as Boss cards. Baxter Stockman, Shredder, Rat King, and Krang were shown as examples of Boss cards included in the kit.
Main Features
- Showcase Scene cards, which combine to form a stunning scene that looks like it came straight out of the comic book or the animated series
- Join forces with the Turtles with the interchangeable Turtle Power! Commander decks
- An exclusive Pizza Bundle to grab a slice from! Wizards of the Coast is cooking up six cards from Magic's past, topping them with pizza-themed artwork, and serving them as part of the Pizza Bundle
- Borderless Headliner Cards with Art by Kevin Eastman, the original illustrator of TMNT. These cards feature original borderless artwork complete with a shiny stamp of Kevin's signature
- Borderless Source Material Cards take cards from Magic's history and trick them out with turtle-tastic artwork. Source material cards from Magic: The Gathering | TMNT feature artwork from throughout the TMNT franchise
- Turtle Team Up: Form your own team of heroes in a half shell with this brand new two-to-four player co-op experience
- Borderless Pixel Cards that reimagine cards from the Turtle Power! Commander deck in the pixel card treatment. Each card features a video game-themed font and pixel art by Kirokaze
- New mechanics and ways to play such as Pick-Two Draft
- Full-Art Pizza Basic Lands: The Turtles' love of pizza is so strong that we're bringing it to the set's basic lands. These full-art pizza basic lands feature a hearty helping of pizza toppings across all five basic lands
Like every other set release, MTG | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles introduces new (and returning) mechanics to the tabletops of Magic: the Gathering. While previous set spoiler seasons have given fans a taste of what the bonus sheet would look like (with Avatar: The Last Airbender, Final Fantasy: Through The Ages, and Spider-Man‘s Marvel Universe Bonus Sheets), WOTC’s reveal today is all about TMNT, mechanics, and multiple art treatments for card designs that fans of the series will be thrilled with. Like with past Universes Beyond, a Bonus Sheet for TMNT has been prepared, and it features artwork from the Turtles’ storied history.
Magic: The Gathering – New & Returning Mechanics in TMNT
