Historic Shakeup – Midweek Magic Event Guide and Decklists

Hello everyone! This week’s Midweek Magic is Historic Shakeup! Historic Shakeup is the Historic we all know and love, but with a significantly larger banlist! A lot of the best cards were hit, so what would Historic look like without them?

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 June 2022 event, with the new banlist!

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Event Details

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

We’re removing some of Historic’s most popular and powerful cards. Search for new strategies and bring the best 60-card deck you can create!

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

• Duration: June 14, 2021 @ 8:00 AM PST to June 16, 2021 @ 8:00 AM PST
• Format: Historic Shakeup
• 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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Banned Card List

More cards prominent in the Historic metagame have been added to the banlist since the last time Historic Shakeup came around. It is interesting to note that only one Alchemy card has been affected, almost as if this event is encouraging their use!

Historic Banned Cards	Additional Historic Shakeup Banned Cards
Agent of Treachery	Arclight Phoenix
Brainstorm	Archmage's Charm
Channel	Cauldron Familiar
Counterspell	Collected Company
Dark Ritual	Divine Purge
Demonic Tutor	Dragon's Rage Channeler
Field of the Dead	Esper Sentinel
Lightning Bolt	Expressive Iteration
Memory Lapse	Faithless Looting
Natural Order	Ghitu Lavarunner
Nexus of Fate	Greasefang, Okiba Boss
Oko, Thief of Crowns	Heliod, Sun-Crowned
Omnath, Locus of Creation	Kor Spiritdancer
Swords to Plowshares	Llanowar Elves
Thassa's Oracle	Lotus Field
Tibalt's Trickery	Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Time Warp	Mizzix's Mastery
Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath	Muxus, Goblin Grandee
Veil of Summer	Niv-Mizzet Reborn
Wilderness Reclamation	Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
Winota, Joiner of Forces	Thoughtseize

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Historic Shakeup Decklists (June 2022)

We have 14 Historic Shakeup decks that use the best remaining cards in Historic, but if you’re looking for more inspiration, you can go have a look at the deck database.

If you’re unsure what deck to play, Mono White is always a great option. With a brutal curve and great threats, you can easily get under any opponent.

With a litany of cheap threats and burn spells, Mono Red Burn is excellent at closing games out quickly.

Despite losing two excellent cards, Azorius Auras is still quite powerful and difficult to stop as every creature can quickly grow and replace itself if the opponent has interactino.

Utilizing every strong Cycling card and the extremely powerful Zenith Flare, Boros Cycling is a unique deck that can be brutally fast and hard to disrupt.

The newest hotness in Alchemy, Gruul Treasure Storm utilizes the new Alchemy cards for an explosive and powerful combo deck. Also be sure to check out the deck guide here.

Looking to cheat out a Serra's Emissary as fast as possible, this deck can easily lock out a large variety of decks that are reliant on one avenue to win.

If you like playing Prowess style decks, Izzet Blitz is likely the fastest deck in Historic using all cheap creatures, cantrips, and burn to stack up triggers and damage.

Looking to end games on the spot with Indomitable Creativity, Izzet Creativity looks to control the board, amass Treasure tokens, and win out of nowhere.

Utilizing the very power Oni-Cult Anvil, Rakdos has so many ways to drain the opponent out and is extremely difficult to stop.

The perfect answer to slower decks or combo decks, Simic Flash will interact early and often then deploy one threat that it can protect and ride to victory.

With a litany of strong tribal payoffs, Simic Merfolk can get on board quickly and grow out of control just as quickly.

Ported from Altheriax’s Mythic #1 list, Goblin Combo has a mix of great tribal synergies with a flashy end game to kill the opponent in one turn.

My favorite Historic deck ever, Temur Clover is a simple deck that has insane power utilizing the powerful engine of Lucky Clover and Adventure creatures.

One of the scariest decks in Historic, Temur Neoform can consistently win on turn 4 or even on turn 3 with the broken interaction between Sea Gate Stormcaller, Neoform, and Dualcaster Mage.

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Decklists in this Article