Arena Base Set
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| Symbol description | Arena logo | ||||
| Release date | August 13, 2020 | ||||
| Plane | Multiversal | ||||
| Set size | 118 + 16 | ||||
| Expansion code | ANB, ANA[1] | ||||
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The Arena Base Set or Arena Beginner Set is a MTG Arena-exclusive card set that was released on August 13, 2020.[2]
Description
In August 2020, Magic: The Gathering Arena introduced new player decks. Unlike previous versions, the monocolored decks that each player received after the tutorial matches were designed to stay rotation-proof beyond Standard 2021. The Arena Base Set was created for this exact purpose.[2] The decks incorporated several MTG Arena-exclusive digital cards that had been created in July 2018 to facilitate the creation of the New Player Experience (NPE).
It was announced that the cards of the Arena Base Set would stay legal in best-of-one Standard matches until further notice. Studio X selected introductory cards that were good for new players learning to play Magic: The Gathering for the very first time and provide some obvious choices for cards players may look to replace when upgrading their decks. This ended in March 2022, when the Arena Base Set was removed from Bo1 Standard (thus unifying Bo1 and Bo3 Standard on Arena, except for Bo1-specific bans).
This set remains permanently legal in Alchemy (even after rotations), making it similar to how Foundations functions in Standard. It is also legal in Arena's eternal formats (Brawl, Historic, and Timeless).[3]
List of cards
- White- Keep the Peace
- Angel of Vitality
- Angelic Guardian
- Angelic Reward
- Bond of Discipline
- Charmed Stray
- Confront the Assault
- Fencing Ace
- Goring Ceratops
- Hallowed Priest
- Impassioned Orator
- Inspiring Commander
- Knight's Pledge
- Leonin Warleader
- Loxodon Line Breaker
- Moorland Inquisitor
- Pacifism
- Sanctuary Cat
- Serra Angel
- Shrine Keeper
- Soulmender
- Spiritual Guardian
- Tactical Advantage
- Blue-Aerial Domination
- Air Elemental
- Armored Whirl Turtle
- Cloudkin Seer
- Coral Merfolk
- Frilled Sea Serpent
- Glint
- Octoprophet
- Overflowing Insight
- Riddlemaster Sphinx
- River's Favor
- Sleep
- Soulblade Djinn
- Sworn Guardian
- Unsummon
- Wall of Runes
- Warden of Evos Isle
- Waterkin Shaman
- Waterknot
- Windreader Sphinx
- Windstorm Drake
- Winged Words
- Zephyr Gull
- Black-Cold Blooded Killers
- Bad Deal
- Compound Fracture
- Cruel Cut
- Demon of Loathing
- Eternal Thirst
- Krovikan Scoundrel
- Malakir Cullblade
- Mardu Outrider [a]
- Murder
- Nightmare
- Nimble Pilferer
- Raise Dead
- Sanitarium Skeleton
- Savage Gorger
- Scathe Zombies
- Sengir Vampire
- Skeleton Archer
- Soulhunter Rakshasa
- Typhoid Rats
- Unlikely Aid
- Vampire Opportunist
- Witch's Familiar
- Red-Goblins Everywhere
- Bombard
- Burn Bright
- Fearless Halberdier
- Goblin Gang Leader [b]
- Goblin Gathering
- Goblin Trashmaster
- Goblin Tunneler
- Hurloon Minotaur
- Immortal Phoenix
- Inescapable Blaze
- Maniacal Rage
- Molten Ravager
- Nest Robber
- Ogre Battledriver
- Raging Goblin
- Raid Bombardment
- Reduce to Ashes
- Shock
- Siege Dragon
- Storm Strike
- Tin Street Cadet
- Volcanic Dragon
- Green-Large and In Charge
- Affectionate Indrik
- Baloth Packhunter
- Charging Badger
- Colossal Majesty
- Epic Proportions
- Feral Roar
- Generous Stray
- Gigantosaurus
- Greenwood Sentinel
- Ilysian Caryatid
- Jungle Delver
- Prized Unicorn
- Rabid Bite
- Rampaging Brontodon
- Rumbling Baloth
- Sentinel Spider
- Stony Strength
- Titanic Growth
- Treetop Warden
- Wildwood Patrol
- Woodland Mystic
- World Shaper
- Lands
- Standard Brawl/Brawl Additions
Notes
- ↑ Mardu Outrider was originally a MTG Arena exclusive digital card but was printed in paper as part of Mystery Booster 2.
- ↑ Goblin Gang Leader was originally a MTG Arena exclusive digital card but was printed in paper as part of Mystery Booster 2.
- A denotes a MTG Arena exclusive digital card.
ANA
In addition to the Arena Base Set proper, Arena also contains a second, closely related hidden set with set code ANA. This set has no official name. Unlike with ANB, cards in ANA are not legal in Alchemy by default, but they are eternal legal. ANA contains the entirety of ANB within it, and it additionally contains several "odds and ends". These include the formerly digital-exclusive Shorecomber Crab, Rise from the Grave, promotional basic lands, and several cards released through anthologies or the Powered Cube that use promotional art. Cards matching this last description include:
Additionally, although all of ANB is contained with ANA, most of these cards only have a single "printing" with which both set codes are associated. However, there are several cards that (seemingly erroneously) have separate yet identical printings (including identical set symbols) for ANA and ANB. These are:
References
- ↑ Scryfall, Arena search
- ↑ a b Wizards of the Coast (August 4, 2020). "MTG Arena: State of the Game – August 2020". magicthegathering.com. Archived from the original on November 10, 2022.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (August 14, 2022). "Patch Notes - 2022.14.0". MTG Arena Support. Archived from the original on January 30, 2023.