A cat warrior in a horned helmet and a human together hold up a trophy with fireworks in the background and the text: Introducing Achievements, Coming February 11.

Last week, we announced that achievements—our new feature aimed at encouraging and rewarding players for deeply engaging with the game—will be coming to MTG Arena with the release of Aetherdrift on February 11, 2025.

Today, we want to offer more details on how our achievements system works with Max Manco, senior designer on MTG Arena. Beyond that, we'll preview some of the achievements you can take on next week and a list of rewards you can expect from completing them.

Achievement Walkthrough

Achievement Sets

Core Achievements

  • 7 Welcome to MTG Arena Achievements
  • 17 MTG Arena Milestone Achievements
  • 24 MTG Arena Format Achievements
  • 15 Advanced Achievements

Select for Advanced Achievements

  • Vault Cracker: Open a Vault.
  • Down, But Not Out: Win a Best-of-3 match after losing the first game.
  • Undefeated: Reach the maximum number of wins in a Best-of-1 Limited event without losing a single game.
  • Keyword Soup: Attack with a creature that has Flying, Vigilance, Trample, Lifelink, and Haste.
  • Taste of Power: Cast a card from the Power Nine.
  • Going Ultimate: Remove 6 or more loyalty counters from a planeswalker you control during your turn.
  • Mill-licious: Have an opponent lose a game by drawing from an empty library.
  • Compleat Victory: Have an opponent lose a game by having 10 or more Poison Counters.
  • Rule of Five: Draft 5 or more copies of a card in a draft.
  • Mastery Master: Reach the highest level in a Set Mastery pass.
  • Pack Rat: Open 10 Packs at once.
  • Rare Drafter: Finish a Draft with 9 or more Rares and/or Mythic Rares in your card pool.
  • Admirably Artisan: Win 10 Historic Ranked matches with a deck containing no Rare or Mythic Rare cards.
  • A Party of None: Win a game without casting a single creature spell.
  • Mythic Champion: Reach Mythic Rank in Constructed and in Limited simultaneously.

Core Mastery Achievements

  • 10 Color Mastery: White Achievements
  • 10 Color Mastery: Blue Achievements
  • 10 Color Mastery: Black Achievements
  • 10 Color Mastery: Red Achievements
  • 10 Color Mastery: Green Achievements

Select for Example Color Mastery Achievements:

  • At Any Cost: Pay 200 Life as a cost over any number of games.
  • The Only Point That Matters: Win a game with a life total of 1 … or less.
  • A Terrible Thing to Waste: Have an opponent discard 120 cards over any number of games.
  • One With Nothing: Make an opponent discard the last card(s) in their hand.
  • Graverobbing: Have 80 creatures leave your graveyard over any number of games.
  • Necromastery: Have a creature card with mana value 8 or greater enter from your graveyard.
  • Dies to Doom Blade: Destroy 250 creatures you don't control over any number of games.
  • Expendable Minions: Sacrifice 100 creatures over any number of games.
  • Taking You With Me: Win a game on the same turn you sacrifice 6 or more permanents.
  • Death and Power: Cast 250 Zombie or Demon spells over any number of games.

Achievement Rewards

Avatars

  • Ajani
  • Kaito
  • Liliana
  • Chandra
  • Vivien

Card Sleeves

  • Awe for the Guilds
  • Kor Sky Climber
  • Gallant Cavalry
  • Baneslayer Angel

Emote Stickers

  • Partying Sparky
  • Cool Sparky
  • Thinking Sparky
  • Sparky's Topdeck

Emote Phrases

  • "You should see my other deck!"
  • "I can do this all day."
  • "Let's get this B.R.E.A.D!"
  • "See you next week!"
  • "Storm Count +1"
  • "I'm ready to Brawl!"
  • "Now that's a bomb!"
  • "Do you see the line?"
  • "I'm on a quest!"
  • "Check out my latest brew!"
  • "Lands, am I right?"
  • "Never didn't have it!"
  • "No rest. No mercy. No matter what."
  • "There's a hole in your plan."
  • "Greatness, at any cost."
  • "Catch!"
  • "When nature calls, run."

Titles

  • Initiate
  • Magus of the Arena
  • Seasoned
  • Pack Leader
  • Crafty
  • Collector
  • Format All-Star
  • Standard Bearer
  • Accomplished Alchemist
  • Dauntless Drafter
  • Weekly Warrior
  • Veteran Explorer
  • Eternal Taskmaster
  • Timeless Witness
  • Veteran Brawler
  • Achievement Hunter
  • The Virtuous
  • The Brilliant
  • The Ambitious
  • The Fervent
  • The Mighty

Our Goals with Achievements

We set three goals to accomplish with the new achievements feature:

  • Encourage Exploration: MTG Arena offers an array of ways to engage with Magic: The Gathering, and with achievements we wanted to embrace that. Achievements focus on rewards for playing matches rather than simply winning. This encourages experimentation and trying new things. (But don't worry: if competition is your cup of tea, we've also got you covered!)
  • Provide Engaging Content for Everyone: Achievements should deliver fun and novel challenges for the widest variety of players—whether you're learning the fundamentals of each color, are a long-time Brawl fan, or want to show off your competitive mettle. We kept how you play in mind when designing the milestones and challenges, and we have 113 achievements for launch!
  • Promote Self-Expression: Completing achievements should offer unique rewards that allow you to express yourself and show the challenges you've overcome. To that end, we've created brand-new avatars, phrases, stickers, and sleeves to celebrate your achievements!
Screenshot of the Core Achievements screen showing a progress bar and six achievements: Going for Gold (Reach Gold Rank in either Constructed or Limited), A Turn of Events (Enter 5 Events), Midweek Magician (Complete a Midweek Magic event), Stylish Spellslinger (Play a game with four or more Cosmetics equipped), First Favorites (Favorite a visualization for each of the 5 basic land types, and Orb Trader (Spend 5 Mastery Orbs).

All that being said, we still felt we needed to go one step further to really highlight your accomplishments in a new way. So, we'd also like to introduce you to titles!

Titles, a New Cosmetic

Titles are a new cosmetic launching with achievements. You earn titles when completing specific achievements. Once earned, titles can be equipped and shown off during matches. We've included 21 titles at launch that you can earn.

Two opponents facing off at the match loading screen, one with the Standard Bearer title, the other with the Achievement Hunter title

We can't wait for you to start exploring the new achievements and titles with the launch of Aetherdrift on February 11. Look for a behind-the-scenes article on their development coming soon after release!

We hope you have fun playing with the new system, and we look forward to your feedback!