Unlocking MTG Arena’s Cheesy Hidden TMNT Emote

Last updated on March 6, 2026

Arena TMNT Easter Egg Location

MTG Arena has introduced an exclusive emote available to players who interact with the special board released alongside Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Pizza Time emote can be obtained for free as long as you follow the simple cheat code to win an arcade game!

How To Unlock Pizza Time Emote on MTG Arena

Everything Pizza | Illustration by James Bousema

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hit Arena this past Tuesday, and it hid a wonderful emote among the debris scattered around the Arena background designed for the set—a bit of a mess, but what else can you expect from a bunch of teenagers? As pointed out by @MTGNerdGirl, there’s a hidden emote concealed in the background.

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When you queue into a game of TMT Limited, or randomly when playing other formats, you can get this Arena background. It has multiple interactive features, but we’re interested in the arcade machine in the top right corner, right above where your opponent’s pet appears and the stack shows up. The first step to obtaining the emote is clicking rapidly on the controls, circled here:

After you click about 10 times, a red GAME OVER screen flashes, with an image of Shredder:

But don’t let it fool you! The game is far from over. Keep clicking, and you’ll eventually hit a YOU WIN screen:

It takes very little time to complete this mini-task; you can do it while your opponent takes their turn. After you win the arcade game, you’ll get an email in your Arena inbox that lets you claim the emote:

If you don’t claim it right away, don’t worry—Arena automatically clears your inbox and gives you any unclaimed rewards after about a week, so you’ll end up with this emote either way:

How To Equip the Emote

Equipping emotes and other unlockables on Arena is pretty simple. First, click on the Profile tab at the top of the client:

This page contains a bunch of information, like your current Constructed and Limited ranks, your avatar, etc. Below your avatar is a list of additional tabs you can open; here, we want the emote tab:

Once there, you’ll see this screen that includes stickers and phrases:

All you need to do is click Pizza Time! You can only have ten stickers set at a time, so you might need to remove one if you want to use this new sticker.

Arena’s Second Interactive Reward

This Pizza Time emote isn’t the first reward Arena has offered players for interacting with the board. Avatar: the Last Airbender players were treated to a cabbage companion they received for completing a similar task: Destroying The Cabbage Merchant’s cart that appeared near their opponent’s avatar:

Lorwyn Eclipsed didn’t have any surprise cosmetics like this, so it might be a treat reserved for Universes Beyond sets. While two sets isn’t enough to mark a pattern, it’s a reason to keep an eye out for what might lurk around the edges of games played with future sets. Marvel Super Heroes will likelU+0079 receive the Through the Omenpaths treatment so it might not have anything, but I’d bet a wildcard or two that The Hobbit board will have a pile of gold to riffle through—or perhaps it’ll be modeled after the Shire, and we can pilfer Bilbo’s pantry like the dwarves.