Magic: The Gathering Arena/Exclusive cards
NPE Exclusive cards
To facilitate the creation of the NPE (New Player Experience) and to transition players smoothly into the normal play experience, on July 14, 2018, the designers introduced some MTG Arena-exclusive digital cards (). On August 13, 2020 this group of cards became part of a non-rotating Arena Base Set in the new monocolor starter decks. The Arena Base Set also expanded the list of cards that are only available in digital form.
Some of these cards are accessible to players, and used to be Standard-legal for MTG Arena Bo1 (marked with 
).[1] They are now only available in the Alchemy, Historic and Timeless formats. The rest were Tutorial-only (marked with 
).
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- Notes
- Soulhunter Rakshasa has a completely changed rules text in the Arena Base Set, compared to the NPE version.[2][3]
- Inspiring Commander wasn’t made by the R&D team and it wasn’t run by the Council of Colors. If it had been, it wouldn’t exist because it breaks the color pie.[4]
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons Exclusive cards
The MTG Arena-exclusive Jumpstart: Historic Horizons set added 31 more designed-for-digital cards to the game, all including effects that wouldn't be done in paper magic.
- Colorless
- White
- Baffling Defenses
- Benalish Partisan
- Leonin Sanctifier
- Lumbering Lightshield
- Teyo, Aegis Adept
- Wingsteed Trainer
- Blue
- Bounty of the Deep
- Ethereal Grasp
- Kiora, the Tide's Fury
- Mentor of Evos Isle
- Shoreline Scout
- Tome of the Infinite
- Black
- Boneyard Aberration
- Davriel, Soul Broker
- Davriel's Withering
- Manor Guardian
- Plaguecrafter's Familiar
- Subversive Acolyte
- Red
- Managorger Phoenix
- Reckless Ringleader
- Sarkhan, Wanderer to Shiv
- Sarkhan's Scorn
- Scion of Shiv
- Static Discharge
- Green
List of cards that can be conjured
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- Lands
- Note
- Cards marked with * aren't otherwise available on MTG Arena.
Alchemy
Alchemy cards were introduced in December, 2021. They expand on the designed-for-digital mechanics introduced in Jumpstart: Historic Horizons.
| Release | Name | Adjacent to |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-12-09 | Alchemy: Innistrad | Innistrad: Midnight Hunt and Innistrad: Crimson Vow |
| 2022-03-17 | Alchemy: Kamigawa | Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty |
| 2022-06-02 | Alchemy: New Capenna | Streets of New Capenna |
| 2022-07-07 | Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate | Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate |
| 2022-10-06 | Alchemy: Dominaria | Dominaria United |
| 2022-12-13 | Alchemy: The Brothers' War | The Brothers' War |
| 2023-02-28 | Alchemy: Phyrexia | Phyrexia: All Will Be One |
| 2023-10-10 | Alchemy: Eldraine | Wilds of Eldraine |
| 2023-12-05 | Alchemy: Ixalan | The Lost Caverns of Ixalan |
| 2024-03-05 | Alchemy: Karlov Manor | Murders at Karlov Manor |
| 2024-05-07 | Alchemy: Thunder Junction | Outlaws of Thunder Junction |
Rebalanced cards
Rebalanced cards were first introduced in October 2021 to prevent an undesirable combo between Davriel's Withering or Davriel, Soul Broker and Vesperlark that resulted in a drawn game.[5] With the introduction of Alchemy format as an alternative to Standard, rebalanced cards became a regular part of Magic: The Gathering Arena.
Gallery
New Player Experience exclusive cards
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Blinding Radianace
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Shorecomber Crab
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Titanic Pelagosaur
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Original version of Soulhunter Rakshasa
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Goblin Bruiser
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Ogre Painbringer
References
- ↑ MTG Arena Admin (July 12, 2018). "July 12, 2018 Update — 0.06.00.000 Release Notes". mtgarena.com. Archived from the original on March 15, 2023.
- ↑ Assaultkitten (August 14, 2020). "Important Notice: Cards that are apart of the new player experience are subject to direct rules text changes.". Reddit.
- ↑ Hamster (August 30, 2020). "Arena Beginner Set cards added to UnOrthodox and Soulhunter Rakshasa Errata". EDHSilver.com.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (February 21, 2021). "If Mentor of the Meek is still a break, why make Inspiring Commander on Arena?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Jay Parker and Donald Smith (October 13, 2021). "October 13, 2021 Banned and Restricted Announcement". magicthegathering.com. Archived from the original on August 2, 2022.