Brawl (Formerly Historic Brawl) – Midweek Magic Event Guide and Best Decklists
This guide will contain everything you need to know about the Midweek Magic: Historic Brawl event, including rewards and our exclusive sample decklists.
Hey everyone! We are rolling up on the middle of another week and you all know what that means. It’s once again time for another Midweek Magic. This week it is the ever popular Brawl (formerly known as Historic Brawl, but come on hook me up with that Timeless Brawl action WotC) so I’m sure some people are gearing up to go at it hard.
We’ve had some updates since the last event with the Curious Critters bonus set adding some fun hits in Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Birds of Paradise, and Baleful Strix Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’ll get to the decks right after the event info.
Event Details
Welcome to Midweek Magic! Each week, try out a different way to play MTG Arena!
Bring a 100-card Brawl deck using any cards in MTG Arena, led by your favorite legendary creature or planeswalker!
Find out more details about this and upcoming Midweek Magic events HERE.
Duration: August 13th, 2024 @ 2:00 PM PST to August 15th, 2024 @ 2:00 PM PST
Format:Brawl
Entry Fee: Free
Ends After: You can play as much as you like for the duration of the event.
This remains Tier 0 in the format even if it does have a couple of rough matchups. It can still just blast through those with the right start anyway.
It’s the most likely deck to get someone to just scoop without playing. Technically you could run this as your commander and ninety-nine Mountains to test that theory. Anyway, I recommend playing this if your goal is to go hard and fast at the event.
This is another fun one where you feel like you are comboing out with Sythis, Harvest's Hand and a pile of enchantments. You have lots of cards such as Planar Disruption to lock their Ragavan down giving you time to take over a few turns later.
Do you enjoy gaining a bunch of life while comboing off with enchantments? Cool, then go ahead and fire this up.
What time is it? Time to play some Dimir control backed up by the clock king himself Rusko, Clockmaker. He conveniently ramps himself so that even if they kill him, you’re just a land drop away from his return.
One of the OG Historic Brawl baddies (after they took away our precious Oko who caused just as many turn zero concedes as Raggie) who doubles your pile of ramp critters to pump out huge monsters.
You can also change Bristly Bill to another cheap commander like Shigeki, Jukai Visionary or Syr Faren, the Hengehammer for the full budget option. They won’t be as good, but sometimes you just don’t have the wildcard to spend. A few mill cards and a whole bunch of slimes can get there sometimes.
Thanks for reading! I’ll be back tomorrow with my over and under performers of Bloomburrow Limited (I know I said it was last week, but I felt the Draft Guide needed to get up first). Until then, stay classy people!
Josh is a member of the elite limited team The Draft Lab as well as the host of The Draft Lab Podcast. He was qualifying for Pro Tours, Nationals, and Worlds literally before some of you were born. After a Magic hiatus to play poker and go to medical school, he has been dominating Arena with over an 80% win percentage in Bo3 as well as making #1 rank in Mythic.
