Historic Anthology 6: Release Date, Leaks, Spoilers & More

During a recent State of the Game blog post, Wizards of the Coast officially announced MTG Arena’s next Historical Anthology. Aptly titled Historic Anthology 6, this Anthology collection will give the Historic format various powerful and exciting cards to expand Historic’s metagame. While it’s by no means a replacement, Historic Anthology 6 may help Historic feel a bit more like Modern and Legacy.

Historic Anthology 6 Release Dates

Stoneforge Mystic | Worldwake

A recent blog post revealed that Historic Anthology 6 will be launching a lot sooner than expected! Wizards of the Coast has confirmed that Historic Anthology 6 will officially launch on the 28th of July 2022. The Anthology set will only be available until the 5th of October, so make sure you don’t miss out.

The freshly announced Explorer Anthology 1 has also been announced to launch at the same time. It’s important to note however that despite this joint release, these are separate products that will have to be purchased individually.

Historic Anthology 6 Price

Following the trend set by past Anthology sets, Historic Anthology 6 will cost 4,000 gems or 25,000 gold. For reference, the cost of 4,000 gems is roughly equivalent to $25. The set, which is sold as a bundle, contains four copies of the 20 cards included in the Anthology.

After the 5th of October 2022, the bundle will no longer be for sale. Cards from Historic Anthology 6 will still be able to be crafted using Wildcards, even after the sale ends.

Historic Anthology 6 Mechanics

Tarmogoyf | Future Sight

Currently, no keyword mechanics for Historic Anthology 6 have been announced. Instead, each of the currently spoiled cards for Historic Anthology 6 features its own unique abilities. This makes it rather challenging to go into detail on the mechanics that are included in the set. From the currently spoiled cards, it’s possible that Shrines may be a relevant creature type, however this has yet to be confirmed.

Should any interesting keyword mechanics get announced, we’ll update this section to explain any oddball mechanics that may be of interest!

Historic Anthology 6 Leaks & Spoilers

Wurmcoil Engine by Raymond Swanland | Scars of Mirrodin

Releasing on the 28th of July 2022, Historic Anthology 6 is scheduled to have a rapid spoiler season. To that end, spoiler season for the set has already begun! So far, Wizards of the Coast has announced three cards from Historic Anthology 6, Tarmogoyf Tarmogoyf Tarmogoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1. , Avacyn, Angel of Hope Avacyn, Angel of Hope Flying, vigilance, indestructible
Other permanents you control have indestructible. , and Go-Shintai of Life’s Origin Go-Shintai of Life’s Origin {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}, {T}: Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Whenever Go-Shintai of Life's Origin or another nontoken Shrine you control enters, create a 1/1 colorless Shrine enchantment creature token. .

More cards are expected to be spoiled by MTG Arena’s social media channels over this and the next week. The full card list for the Anthology set will be revealed on Wednesday, July 27th.

Tarmogoyf | Ultimate Masters

Avacyn, Angel of Hope | Double Masters

Go-Shintai of Life’s Origin | Neon Dynasty Commander

Wizards has stated that “Historic Anthology 6 will contain 20 cards legal only in Historic, bringing new possibilities to our broadest and most powerful format”. Thanks to Explorer getting its own Anthology set, the latest Historic Anthology will be able to focus purely on Historic.

While we have seen some of the official spoilers already, here are some of the cards we hope to see in Historic Anthology 6.

Primeval Titan Primeval Titan Trample
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Aether Vial Aether Vial At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on this artifact.
{T}: You may put a creature card with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact from your hand onto the battlefield.
Liliana of the Veil Liliana of the Veil +1: Each player discards a card.
−2: Target player sacrifices a creature.
−6: Separate all permanents target player controls into two piles. That player sacrifices all permanents in the pile of their choice.
Stoneforge Mystic Stoneforge Mystic When this creature enters, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{1}{W}, {T}: You may put an Equipment card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Blightsteel Colossus Blightsteel Colossus Trample, infect, indestructible
If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.
Wurmcoil Engine Wurmcoil Engine Deathtouch, lifelink
When this creature dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.
Thought-Knot Seer Thought-Knot Seer ({C} represents colorless mana.)
When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, target opponent draws a card.
Batterskull Batterskull Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink.
{3}: Return this Equipment to its owner's hand.
Equip {5}
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle This land enters tapped.
Whenever a Mountain you control enters, if you control at least five other Mountains, you may have this land deal 3 damage to any target.
{T}: Add {R}.