Historic Artisan – Midweek Magic Event Guide and Best Decklists (30 New Decks!)

Hey everyone! We have reached the middle of another week and that means it is time for another Midweek Magic to drop. This week it is Historic Artisan which means no Rares or Mythics allowed. Not having a big wildcard investment tends to cause this to get a lot of play whenever it pops up. Yeah, yeah I’ll shut up and get to some deck lists for you right after the event details.

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Event Details

Welcome to Midweek Magic! Each week, try out a different way to play MTG Arena!

Bring a 60-card deck using only commons, uncommons, and basic lands from any set in MTG Arena. Without rares, the common folk can truly be heard!

Find out more details about this and upcoming Midweek Magic events HERE.

• Duration: June 25th, 2024 @ 2:00 PM PST to June 27th, 2024 @ 2:00 PM PST
• Format: Historic Artisan
• Entry Fee: Free
• Ends After: You can play as much as you like for the duration of the event.
• Match Structure: Best-of-one matches (BO1)

Event Rewards

Wins	Reward
1 Win	Rare Individual Card Reward (ICR)
2 Wins	Rare Individual Card Reward (ICR)
3 Wins	One Random Cosmetic Item

Banned Cards

The following cards are banned in Historic Artisan:

• Abiding Grace
• Cauldron Familiar
• Gates Ablaze
• Persistent Petitioners
• Veil of Summer
• Wilderness Reclamation
• Zenith Flare

Let’s be honest here, nobody wants to play the Cauldron Familiar game of a thousand clicks and they can’t have you just Zenith Flareing your opponent in the middle of nowhere.

Decklists

Azorius Auras

This is always a fun one because you get to stack a pile of auras and do some crazy stuff with it. Obviously, you prefer to be sticking them on Invisible Stalker, but you have some other protection running around if he pulls a John Cena.

Ignore that the deck list says 4 rares, Port Town was changed to Uncommon for Arena in Shadows over Innistrad.

Ninjas

Bet you didn’t see this one coming. That tends to happen with Ninjas and I am not so lazy that I’d settle for making a John Cena joke two decks in a row. Draw a bunch of cards, kill some creatures, and have a great time doing it.

Same sidenote as above, but with Choked Estuary being downshifted.

Red Burn

Yep, you found the red deck to burn away your opponent. I had to make you work for it by scrolling a few decks down. Have fun storming the castle.

Izzet Wizards

Wait, are you trying to tell me Amped Raptor isn’t a wizard? You can’t tell him what he can do! Honestly it just seemed fun to toss him in here and as long as you don’t hit Wizard’s Lighting it’s a free spell which is huge.

Azorius Artifacts

You used to run into this deck in regular Historic all the time and it translates pretty well into Artisan form.

Rakdos Artifacts

I’m going to be honest, I just wanted to smash some face with Cranial Ram so I tossed this together in the middle of posting this. This is for those of you that also want to live that kind of life.

Complete List

In addition to the new decks above, Rooker, a Historic Artisan specialist, has also submitted 20+ highly refined decklists for this event. You can also find them in our Historic Artisan deck database here.

Wrap Up

Thanks for reading! I’ll be back soon with some more content for you. Until then, stay classy people!