Historic Metagame Challenge: Event Guide, Resources, and 7 Win Decklists

The Historic Metagame Challenge event is a limited-time competitive event held over this weekend, where players can compete for some big prizes. If you’re feeling confident in Historic or in your skill, this may be the perfect opportunity to earn a bunch of packs!

This May 2023 edition of the event comes a month before the release of The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth on June 20 and shakes the meta back up again! It’s time to test out your decks against other like minded players to see if you can get the coveted seven wins!

In this guide, we’ll give you a overview of the event, resources, our recommended decklists, and sample decklists from players that achieved the maximum 7 wins as they become available.

Event Details

Bring your Historic deck and play best-of-three matches! You’ll receive rewards based on how many matches you win.

Historic Metagame Challenge is an analogous event to the Standard Metagame Challenge that happens not long after the release of a new set. It gives players the opportunity to win huge rewards in a relatively new metagame where the new cards from the latest set are being tested.

• Duration: May 26, 2023 at 8:00 AM PST – May 29, 2023 at 8:00 AM PST
• Format: Historic
• Entry Fee: 2,000 Gold or 400 Gems
• Ends After: 7 wins or 1 loss (whichever comes first – single elimination)
• Match Structure: Best-of-three matches (BO3)

Rewards

Resources

This is going to be a unique event as most players are not going to have much, if any, practice going into the event and the many of your opponents may not want to invest their resources to obtain the new Anthology cards only a week after the game update.

Premium Article

Here is our Premium article on our recommendations going into the event!

Historic Metagame and Tier List

Check out our Historic Metagame and Tier List sections on how the format has shifted since the new sets.

Historic Guides

If you need more in-depth guides on specific Historic decks, check out our Historic guide section. We have deck primers, matchups, sideboard guides, tips and tricks for many of the most popular decks you can pick up for Historic.

The Best Historic Decks for the Bo3 Play-In & Qualifier Weekend

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The best decks in the Best of Three Historic meta right now, picked and tailored for you by our Historic expert Altheriax so you can conquer the Qualifier Play-In and the Qualifier Weekend events!

• Altheriax
• June 9, 2023

Historic #1 Mythic Mono Green Pilgrim Huntmaster Devotion Deck and Sideboard Guide

• Deck GuidesHistoricPremiumStrategy

Learn how to play the best and latest version of Historic Mono Green Pilgrim Huntmaster Devotion from #1 Mythic player Altheriax with this in-depth 6444-word deck strategy and sideboard guide! This is a perfect deck for the Historic meta and upcoming events!

• Altheriax
• June 9, 2023

The Best Decks for the Historic Best of 1 Qualifier Play-In Event

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The best decks in the Best of One Historic meta right now, picked and tailored for you by our Historic expert Altheriax so you can conquer the Qualifier Play-In event!

• Altheriax
• June 3, 2023

Historic Selesnya Humans Deck and Sideboard Guide

• Deck GuidesHistoricStrategy

Learn how to play the Selesnya Humans deck for Historic in this strategy guide, with card options, best of one and budget version, including all the popular matchups and sideboard guide!

• Skura
• June 5, 2023

Historic Izzet Phoenix Deck and Sideboard Guide

• Deck GuidesHistoricStrategy

Learn how to play the Izzet Phoenix deck for Historic in this strategy guide, with card options, best of one and budget version, including all the popular matchups and sideboard guide!

• Skura
• June 5, 2023

Historic Metagame Challenge: Event Guide, Resources, and 7 Win Decklists

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• May 27, 2023

Historic Elves Deck and Sideboard Guide

• Deck GuidesHistoricStrategy

Learn how to play and sideboard the Mono Green Elves deck in Historic!

• Skura
• May 26, 2023

The Best Decks for the Historic Metagame Challenge

• EventsHistoricPremiumStrategy

Historic is a wide open format with a lot of viable decks, so one of Historic's best players Altheriax, is here to help you choose the best ones for farming 7-0 trophies and hundreds of packs at the Historic Metagame Challenge event!

• Altheriax
• May 26, 2023

MTG Arena Under The Meta: Historic Boros Convoke

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Table of ContentsVideoDecklist This is the eighth installment in the Under The Meta series where I cover some of the decks I’ve been working on that have potential but aren’t quite able to compete at the top tier, and look…

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• May 25, 2023

MTG Arena Under The Meta: Historic Boros Pia Nalaar ThopterBlade

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Table of ContentsVideoDecklistGuide This is the seventh installment in the Under The Meta series where I cover some of the decks I’ve been working on that have potential but aren’t quite able to compete at the top tier, and look…

• Altheriax
• May 21, 2023

Historic #1 Mythic Orzhov Lurrus Humans Deck and Sideboard Guide

• Deck GuidesHistoricPremiumStrategy

Learn how to play the best and latest version of Historic Orzhov Lurrus Humans from #1 Mythic player Altheriax with this in-depth 6663-word deck strategy and sideboard guide! It utilizes the new Humans from March of the Machine: The Aftermath to attack the Historic meta!

• Altheriax
• May 18, 2023

Bo1 Historic Metagame Tier List and Rankings

• HistoricTier Lists

Our Arena Best of One Historic (Bo1) metagame tier list in MTG Arena comes with the latest up to date decklists and descriptions, their weaknesses, and when it is good to play.

• Altheriax
• June 8, 2023

Historic Decks

Want to research and test yourself? We have a whole database of Historic decks from the top echelons of the Mythic ladder or the latest tournaments:

• Historic Deck Database
• Historic Tournaments

Historic Metagame Challenge 7 Win Decklists

Below we have collected all the 7 win decks from this event, and we hope to showcase a nice variety of deck archetypes. We will continue to add decks here until the event concludes on May 29. You can also find these Historic decks and more at our deck database.

May 2023

March 2023