Sneak Into Design with Magic: The Gathering® | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Mana Forge Digest

We're diving into Magic: The Gathering's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set, focusing on the ninjutsu mechanic and its design choices, including white-black color pairing for heroic Ninjas and the Foot Clan.

Key points

• Ninjutsu is a key mechanic in this set, inspired by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.
• White and black colors are used to represent both heroic Ninja Turtles and the evil Foot Clan.
• The set features a mutation mechanic called Evolve or adapt?
• It includes student/master training mechanic Training?

What you get

• A unique ninjutsu mechanic inspired by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• White-black color pairing for heroic Ninjas and evil Foot Clan characters
• Evolve or adapt? mutation mechanic
• Training student/master training mechanic
• X/1 colorless artifact Robot Mouse, Treasure, Clue, and Blood tokens

Why it matters

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Details

The very first mechanic we considered for this set was ninjutsu! It has a direct connection to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.

Leonardo, who is white-aligned in Magic, becomes a white-black character in this set due to his involvement with ninjutsu and his championship wins.

The set's design process began sixteen months before its release, with ninjutsu being one of the first mechanics considered.

Good to know

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Read the original on Wizards (https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/sneak-into-design-with-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles) • Source: Wizards of the Coast