Historic Pauper – Midweek Magic Event Guide and Decklists

Hello everyone! This week’s Midweek Magic is Historic Pauper! For those who don’t know, Pauper is actually one of my favorite formats on Arena. It forces you to be extremely creative in deck building and you often get rewarded by surprisingly powerful decks and deep game play. If you like trying out something new, but still want something interesting, you can’t do better than Pauper.

Players can enter the event for free, win some free Rare Individual Card Rewards (ICRs) and a random cosmetic item on the third win. Below is everything you need to know about the event as well as the list of decks you can use for this event. Fully updated for the July 2022 event.

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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 Historic deck that contains only commons and basic lands. Look for some common ground with all those cards you’ve drafted and build something new!

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

• Duration: July 19, 2021 @ 8:00 AM PST to July 21, 2021 @ 8:00 AM PST
• Format: Historic Pauper
• 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)

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Event Rewards

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

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Historic Pauper Decklists (July 2022)

We have 20 Historic Pauper decks (and more from the community) that feature some the most powerful common cards for use to choose from! Since the format never rotates, you can find other Historic Pauper decks as well as ones sourced from the community over at the deck database.

If you’re unsure what direction to take, Monowhite is always a great option. With a brutal curve, you can easily get under any opponent.

It’s weird to think Monoblue creatures would be a good deck in most formats, but it’s very powerful and an absolute blast in Pauper!

In a similar vein to Mono Blue Tempo, Mono Blue Ninjas has similar stylings, but with the added layer of Ninjas to get more value!

With cheap aggressive creatures and solid removal, Mono Black aggro has a solid game plan against the other strategies of Pauper.

If Pauper is one of my favorite formats, Monoblack Midrange is one of my favorite decks in the format! Slowly grind out the opponent with drain enchantments and card advantage.

Easily one of the most synergistic decks in this format, Mono Black Zombies can grind into the late game and then quickly burst the opponent down with Gempalm Polluter.

If you like playing Prowess style decks, Mono Red has plenty of spells matters creatures and a lot of spells that cantrip to accelerate through your deck and the opponent’s life total!

Some people want to watch the world burn, trust me I get it. Going fast, but also having a lot of reach is the largest advantage of playing this deck.

Looking to curve out as fast as possible, Mono Green Aggro has cheap, high powered creatures to kill the opponent ASAP.

While many of these decks look to go low, you can go high as well Mono Green has a litany of ramp options and great mid and late game creatures.

I can’t love a deck more than Monoblack Midrange, but Orzhov Reanimator is definitely creeping up there. It’s so different to your standard Pauper fare and so strong you can’t but love it too!

If you like Aggro decks, but want something more off the beaten path then this deck is for you! Azorius Affinity has the classic curve of an Aggro deck, but can cheat in fatties early in the game!

Want every card in your deck to replace itself? Then you have to play Blink! Every creature provides value so you’ll never run out of things to do!

Don’t worry Control junkies I have your back. If you like never letting your opponent do their thing, Dimir is the absolute best at making that (not) happen.

Another powerful aggressive option, Gruul uses the best of Red and Green to have the highest creature quality as well as solid removal.

Monoblue Tempo is great, but adding Red gives you cheap removal as well which is obviously extremely helpful.

Looking to leverage every Madness card available, Rakdos Madness is a weird blend of value and aggro that is surely a blast to play!

If you like beating up on the many creature decks you’re going to see, there’s no better deck to tackle them with than Rakdos! Steal their creatures and eat them up!

Selesnya Auras is yet another weird aggressive strategy you can try if you like going tall rather than going wide.

Having access to both ramp and interaction, Simic can quickly churn out huge threats and has plenty of card advantage to always give you something to do.

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Decklists in this Article