Historic Simic Stompy Deck Guide
Hey everybody! My name’s Maxim Salmin aka Rint and today I’m introducing you to the refined Simic Stompy deck that I used to 6-0 an SCG Satellite tournament and land at #137 on the Arena ladder this season. As a…
Historic
Historic is a constructed non-rotating format exclusive to Magic: The Gathering Arena. That means you can use any card available in-game, even after they rotate and you will see non-Standard cards being introduced periodically. You can find all our Historic content here, from strategy, guides and tier lists.
Historic Selesnya Company Deck Guide: For Both Bo1 and Bo3 – The Best Collected Company Deck!
Welcome to our Selesnya Company deck guide for the Magic: The Gathering Arena Historic format, updated for Strixhaven: School of Mages! Here, you will learn how to play this green-white aggressive deck for both best of one (bo1) and best…
Historic Gruul Aggro Deck Guide: Face is the Place
Hello everyone! Today I’m talking about the premiere SMORC deck in Historic: Gruul Aggro. Historic is a cool format as it spans so many sets throughout the course of Magic’s history. With the size of the format, there’s a lot…
Historic Tainted Pact Combo Deck Guide: Now This Is a Splinter Twin Situation
Welcome to our Combo deck guide for the Magic: The Gathering Arena Historic format, updated for Strixhaven: School of Mages! Here, you will learn how to play this combo deck specifically for the best of three (bo3) game mode, from…
Dimir Rogues Historic Deck Guide: May 2021 Update
Hello everyone! Welcome to our Dimir Rogues deck guide for the Magic: The Gathering Arena Historic format, updated for Strixhaven: School of Mages! Here, you will learn how to play this blue-black tempo deck for the best of three (bo3)…
Brewing in a Top Hat: Historic Jund Magecraft-Clover-CoCo
Hello everyone, welcome to Brewing in a Top Hat. I have been having a blast playing with Strixhaven and the Mystical Archive cards, and today I bring you an interesting, high synergy brew I came up with while exploring the new…
Sultai Flash Historic Deck Guide: For Both Bo1 and Bo3
Welcome to our Sultai deck guide for the Magic: The Gathering Arena Historic format, updated for Strixhaven: School of Mages! Here, you will learn how to play this black-green-blue tempo deck for both best of one (bo1) and best of…
Orzhov Auras Historic Deck Guide: Spiritdancer is Still Tier 0
Hello everybody! Today, we’re going to do a much needed update on one of the best decks (if not the best) in Historic: Orzhov Auras. As a content creator, I have to test out a lot of different decks by…
Jeskai Magma Opus Gandalf Historic Deck Guide (Including a Budget Version!)
Welcome back, wizards! Control was in a bit of a tough spot lately because of the uprising of Auras and Jund Food. That was, of course, until Strixhaven was released – and with it the Mystical Archive collection. Strixhaven’s impact…
Simic Turns Historic Deck Guide: Letting the Opponent Play is Overrated
Hello everyone! Today I’m giving you a deck guide to one of the few decks I made day 1 of Strixhaven, but has been performing well for me since: Simic Turns. Styled similarly to the decks in the past, Simic…
Brewing in a Top Hat: Historic Jeskai Turns
This week in Brewing in a Top Hat, I return to you with a powerful twist on Historic Jeskai Turns. Unlike the control shell that has been floating around the ladder, this iteration uses and to bring out , who then…
Top 100 Temur Clover Historic Deck Guide: We’re Up All Night To Get Lucky
Hello everyone! Watching the Kaldheim Championship was a blast and there were a lot of great stories to tell there, but the one that caught my eye was Chris Botelho playing Adventures in both Standard and Historic. To be perfectly…
Jund Food In-Depth Historic Deck Guide: Is CoCo Bad Now?
Introduction Hello Planeswalkers! Kaldheim Championship was held this past weekend and we have a win rate matrix for the Historic portion of the tournament – this is what it looks like: What? Jund with has a higher win rate overall?…
Selesnya Fauna Shaman Historic Deck Guide: Historic’s Only Top Tier Toolbox
Hello everyone! Today, I’m going to talk about one of the best and my absolute favorite deck in all of Historic: GW . GW is an evolution of the GW CoCo archetype I’ve been enjoying for months now and I…
Cycling Historic Deck Guide: The Most Underrated Deck in Historic
Hello everyone! Like the title says, I’m going to be talking about what I consider the most underrated deck in all of Historic, Cycling. Now a mainstay in Standard, with Historic Anthology 4 coming out with , I thought it…
Brewing in a Top Hat: Histroric Nahiri Hammer Time
Welcome back to Brewing in a Top Hat. Boy, do I have a fun Historic list cooked up for you all today! This is an aggro deck with a combo finish that is simply… Smashing. The list revolves around , and…
Sultai Ultimatum Historic Deck Guide: Make Opponents Salty With Sultai
Hello everyone! Do you miss Uro in Historic? No? Literally nobody. Huh, well ok. Do you miss playing Sultai then? If so, I have the deck for you! Sultai Ultimatum plays somewhat similarly to the Sultai deck of old, but…
Selesnya Angels Historic Deck Guide: Play The Best Tribe in Historic
Hello everyone! Today we’re going to talk about a deck I thought was a meme, but ended up being a dream, Angels. Angels is a deck that utilizes the many life gain cards across Arena’s history to turn into a…
Historic Abzan Constrictor: The Best Type of Counter Spells
Hello everyone! Today I’m coming at you with a super sweet deck that won the Maryellen Goldstein Treatment yesterday, Abzan Snake! When Winding Constrictor came into Historic, I thought that although it was one of the best Standard decks in…
Historic Golgari Pogliterator: Never Lose Against Red Decks Again
Welcome back! Today I have a special one for you: The best way to farm aggressive decks on the ladder! This might not be the deck to play at your next Mythic Qualifier or whatever important event, but I can…
Neoform Combo Historic Deck Guide: The Terror of Historic Ladder
Do you enjoy playing powerful decks? Do you like crushing any non-interactive deck? Do you want to be the villain of Arena ladder? Well then I have the deck for you! This isn’t a new deck by any stretch, but…
Rakdos Sacrifice Historic Deck Guide: The Cat’s Out of the Bag, Rakdos is Tier 1
Hello everyone! For those who know me well, I am an absolute fanatic for the sacrifice strategies. Just the beautiful mix of aggro, grind, and synergy makes the deck feel very powerful and rewarding to play whether you’re just learning…
Golgari Monsters Historic Deck Guide: You Don’t Need to Be Gruul to Smash
Hello everyone! I’ll admit it, I have a problem. My problem is that I can’t stop playing decks in Historic and I don’t want the cure. Initially piloted by Devon (d00mwake) O’Donnell in the Zendikar Rising Championship, GB is looking…
Bant Company Historic Deck Guide: Your Opponents Will Hate These Bears
Hello everyone! Ever since I wrote about GW Company, I’ve been playing it near exclusively in Historic for grinding ranked to strong success. I love cool midrange decks and it’s been winning a lot, so I had little reason to…
Mono Blue Tempo Historic Deck Guide: Beat the Best on a Budget
Hello everyone! I’ve heard a lot of people are struggling to get into Historic, especially if they haven’t been playing Arena for very long, but fear not! You don’t need to use all of your wildcards to get together a…
Paradox Combo Historic Deck Guide: The First Tier 1 Combo Deck in Historic
Welcome back everyone! Today I’m going over a deck that exploded in popularity just over the weekend and has been putting up extremely promising results, Combo. First created by Kai Budde and Joel Larson for the Zendikar Rising Championship, the…
Brewing in a Top Hat: Historic Infinite Saheeli Combo
Welcome back to Brewing in a Top Hat! Today, I am playing a Superfriends-Control deck that uses an infinite token loop to close out games. With the absence of in Kaladesh Remastered, we didn’t have access to the infinite combo that…
Historic Format Guide – December 2020
What is Historic? Historic is my favorite format on MTG Arena. Similar to Pioneer in power level, Historic has many viable competitive decks, with many different styles and archetypes at the top of the metagame. Historic rewards format knowledge, and…
Brewing in a Top Hat: Orzhov Cleric Combo in Standard and Historic
Welcome back to Brewing In A Top Hat, I have schemed up two very fun decks for you all to grind some wins with in Standard and Historic. They are aggressive, resilient, creature-based decks, and the Historic list even has an…
Sultai God-Pharaoh’s Gift Historic Deck Guide
Now I know what you’re thinking. You want to play a cool new Historic deck, but you can’t give up on Historic’s most broken card. I got you covered. Today, I’m presenting a deck that looked like a meme, but…
Mono Red Aggro Historic Deck Guide – Kaladesh Remastered
The dominance of Gruul Aggro and the existence of Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath have kept Mono Red Aggro from being popular in Historic recently, but the addition of Kaladesh Remastered means Mono Red is a deck to be feared…
Orzhov 8-Dancer: The New Tier 1 Monster in Historic
Guess who’s back! Well yeah, I am, but we’re talking about Historic Auras! The Mono White version was originally popularized by Ginky due to the addition of Kor Spiritdancer in Jumpstart. It dropped in popularity since Thoughtseize got introduced and when…
Jund Company Historic Deck Guide
Hello everyone! I’ve been really enjoying Historic recently and Kaladesh has introduced a lot of new stuff to explore. However, as the initial hype to try new stuff dies down, people are coming back to a particular realization, a lot…
Brewing in a Top Hat: Historic Anointed Rat Clones
A warning before we begin: this deck can accidentally crash your game very easily, so be careful. What’s that? You’re more interested than ever? I like your style! Well then, without further ado, let me introduce you to my most…
Sultai Midrange Historic Deck Guide: The Deck to Beat
Hello all! With the release of Kaladesh Remastered, Historic will be the talk of the town for the foreseeable future. I’ve already tried a smattering of Historic lists, but before I even started, I had a pretty strong feeling on…
Brewer’s Kitchen: Infinite Adaptation
Well hello there, it’s Brewer’s Kitchen with part two of my brewing experiments around Ruin Crab. In my first deck, Crabshift, I experimented with Scapeshifting and reanimating lands with The Mending of Dominaria to produce huge amounts of landfall triggers.…
Brewer’s Kitchen: Crabshift
Well hello there! It’s Brewer’s Kitchen, with the first of two episodes on my brewing process around Ruin Crab. If you remember my latest video about the Rainbow Reef deck, I mentioned that before deciding to play Five-Color Elementals I…
Brewing in a Top Hat: Dragon Token One Turn Kill (OTK) in Standard and Historic
The dragon demands ETB triggers in this edition of Brewing In A Top Hat! I have been jamming of the Peaks into every deck it can fit it into since its release, and I think I’ve finally refined two lists: One…
Brewer’s Kitchen: Rainbow Reef
(Disclaimer: this article was written before the Omnath ban in Historic. At the end of it, I’ll go over possible changes to the deck, and I’ve provided a list without Omnath. It’s not necessary so much as useful to this…
Brewing in a Top Hat: Rakdos Scourge Aggro Deck Guide for Standard and Historic
Our Standard and Historic Rakdos Aggro deck guide features the best deck list for MTG Arena. You can find some general strategy advice and a breakdown of the deck’s key cards and sideboard. “Suffering of the Skyclaves” Welcome to Brewing…