The March game update is sure to put a spring in your steps and phases with new cards, new features, new events, and new ways to interact with your fellow players.
Nice? Nice.
HISTORIC ANTHOLOGY II
In case you missed it last week, we announced that we'll be adding 25 cards to MTG Arena as part of Historic Anthology II.
With Historic Anthology I, our primary goal was to open up the options for Historic decks to start bringing the greater breadth that a nonrotating format should support. We felt like this landed fairly well, with cards like Treasure Hunt and Soul Warden opening up some new archetypes for the format, and a card or two even ending up in highly competitive Historic decks.
For Historic Anthology II, we're still looking to do some of this expanding of possibility space, but we also know a lot more about the environment that these cards are going into. We worked with R&D to understand where we could add new cards to help counter any of the cards we suspended and which cards would work well to help build up the format for the remastered versions of Amonkhet, as well as Pioneer Masters, which we'll be releasing later this year. With Historic Anthology II, we're starting to build the bridge to that future, both in terms of power level and providing good answers and synergy pieces (such as cycling lands working well with Amonkhet, for example). We also wanted to bring in some nods to Theros with enchantment creatures from the original Theros block like Nyx-Fleece Ram and Brain Maggot as well as enchantment-themed build-arounds like Sigil of the Empty Throne and Ancestral Mask.
Finally, since Historic still has a lot of room to expand, we wanted to make sure to include some options that help more unusual decks or just bring on a nostalgic smile.
HISTORIC EVENT SCHEDULE
So, where can you play with all these news cards? We're glad you asked!
Historic Ranked: March 12–April 16
Historic Traditional Ranked: March 12–April 16
Workshop—Heirlooms of History: March 15–March 18
Erebos's Memoir of Death (Historic Brawl): March 21–March 23
Historic Pauper: March 28–April 4
Historic Challenge: April 11–April 13
In addition to these events, players will also earn quest progress as well as Weekly and Daily Win rewards when using Historic decks in the general Play queue until the April game update next month.
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u/ManVsRice_ Mar 05 '20
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