25 cards in all
Wizards of the Coast is expanding the Historic format (which uses older, non-standard cards) in Magic: Arena, and they’re doing it in a way that involves multiple facets of Magic.
For starters, 25 new cards are coming to Arena‘s Historic mode on March 12. You can nab them for either 25,000 gold (in-game currency) or 4,000 gems (premium currency), or craft them for Wildcards. They’ll be playable in the following formats: Traditional Ranked (best-of-three), Ranked (best-of-one) and “other special Historic events,” like Historic Brawl.
The big draw here is Thalia, Guardian of Thraben: a two-cost legendary creature (2/1) that has first strike and makes noncreature spells cost 1 more to cast. Thalia is also the herald of the aforementioned Secret Lair tie-in, which is a 24-hour product that will go live on March 12, 2020 at 9AM PT for $29.99. Magic artists Magali Villeneuve and Johannes Voss created new art for Thalia, and Wizards is packing in a code for four card styles (just styles) in accordance with that art. As a note, the Historic Ranked queue will return (as well as a best-of-one ranked queue), and you can buy both anthologies for gold or gems (3,400 gems or 20,000 gold for Historic Anthology 1; 4000 gems or 25,000 gold for Historic Anthology 2).
Wizards is teasing more Historic Anthology II info during their March 5 “State of the Game” blog series. You can get a look at the Thalia cards and Arena sleeves in the gallery, as well as a full list of the new Historic cards below.
The new cards being added to Magic: Arena‘s Historic mode on March 12, 2020 are:
1. Ancestral Mask
2. Barren Moor
3. Bojuka Bog
4. Brain Maggot
5. Dragonmaster Outcast
6. Forgotten Cave
7. Ghost Quarter
8. Goblin Ruinblaster
9. Inexorable Tide
10. Knight of the Reliquary
11. Lonely Sandbar
12. Maelstrom Pulse
13. Meddling Mage
14. Merrow Reejerey
15. Nyx-Fleece Ram
16. Pack Rat
17. Platinum Angel
18. Ranger of Eos
19. Secluded Steppe
20. Sigil of the Empty Throne
21. Terravore
22. Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
23. Tranquil Thicket
24. Virulent Plague
25. Waste Not
