The second wave of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles previews wrapped Tuesday afternoon, closing out a spoiler season that delivered the four named legendaries, a handful of high-priced cycle pieces, and a common slot that the Limited community has already begun flagging as unusually strong.
The named four
The four Turtles each got a mythic. Leonardo, Sewer Samurai drew the most pre-order interest, both for the headliner printing and the Commander applications. The other three Turtles received less attention in constructed channels and more in the casual Commander discussion threads.
Wizards previewed three printings of Leonardo: the base printing, a borderless universes-beyond treatment, and the chase headliner. The headliner is foil-only and is currently the third-most-expensive single in the set's preorder market.
The common slot
The biggest non-mythic story of the spoiler season was Action News Crew. The card sits at common and reads as a build-around, but several Limited players have already called it the format's defining 3-drop. Three mana for a 2/3 with vigilance and a channel-and-trigger package is a high floor for a common, and the early reads suggest it punches well above its rarity.
We will see how that plays out on the prerelease weekend.
Notable Commander spice
The set's Commander applications go beyond the Turtles. The cycle of "April O'Neil" reporter-themed legendaries adds Aikido-style political tools to multiplayer games, and the equipment subtheme inherits a refresher pack that should slot into existing decks.
The set is on a normal release cadence: prerelease the weekend of March 1, paper release March 6, MTGO and Arena the following Tuesday.
