The first MTG Arena Zone Open Tournament was held today, and the format was best-of-three Historic! A total of 106 players enrolled to compete in the post-Winota suspension metagame, for a chance to win cash prizes and a month of Premium membership. Be sure to watch this space as we plan to hold more tournaments and improve every day with better coverage and more prizes! In the meantime, you can check out what happened today below, from the full VOD as well as metagame data and the top performing decklists. As always, the excellent MTG Melee platform was used and you can click here to check out the full details.
VOD
Today’s tournament consisted of 7 rounds of Swiss, followed by a top 8 playoff. We want to thank sidetraK for production, all the competitors, viewers who tuned in and this week’s coverage team to make today’s event possible – be sure to give them a follow!
Metagame
Today’s event naturally (being Historic and in a less competitive setting) saw a more variety in the deck archetypes with the biggest metagame share belonging to the old faithful Gruul Aggro at 10% closely followed by Mono Red Aggro at 9%. The other staple archetypes involving Field of the Dead and Nexus of Fate were also present in strong numbers, as well as Esper Control, Mono Blue Tempo and Rakdos Sacrifice that still uses Lurrus of the Dream-Den despite the recent nerf.
Decklists
In Standard, Temur Reclamation took down both of the Player’s Tour tournaments in a dominating fashion, consisting of almost 30% to 40% of the field and both of the finals being mirror matches! We also saw a mirror match between the two Simic Nexus decks that also feature Wilderness Reclamation in the finals. Rakdos Lurrus Sacrifice showed a strong showing, chomping up other aggro archetypes in the process. We also saw Rakdos Goblins deck that feature the Goblin Deathwhirler and Call of the Death-Dweller combo rally to the semifinals!
Bant Control by Arthur Laborderie – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Historic Simic Ramp by Vomi – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #9 (1st)
Historic Simic Nexus by Azu Cat – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open (1st)
Colorless Ramp by Shylo Elliott – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Historic Gruul Aggro by fefo_san – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #4 (2nd)
Historic Simic Nexus by sandoiche – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open (2nd)
Sultai Midrange by Inaste Noquar – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Historic Kethis Combo by Glacier – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #5 (3rd)
Historic Bant Nexus by PDeS – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #4 (3rd)
Historic Orzhov Vampires by Rint – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #2 (3rd)
Mono-Green Elves by Hanna Engel – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Historic Temur Nexus by Bengee – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #2 (4th)
Bant Aggro by Waseem Quraishi – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Historic Bant Golos by Allan Oca – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #7 (5th)
Historic Bant Golos by Joly20 – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #5 (6th)
Historic Simic Nexus by IceBR – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (5th)
Historic Gruul Aggro by FeFoSan – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #2 (5th)
Jund Sacrifice by Rjuku578 – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Dimir Flash by Jake Hewitt – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Historic Bant Golos by shylax – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #5 (7th)
Historic Gruul Aggro by Beznog – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #2 (7th)
Mono-Red Goblins by Jozef Vasko – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Mono-Red Aggro by Zack House – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Historic Bant Nexus by Minghelludo – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open (9th)
Esper Yorion by David Harding – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Historic Mono Red Goblins by Borbs – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #5 (10th)
Historic Jund Dinosaurs by kotka – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (10th)
Historic Simic Nexus by Daninja – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #2 (10th)
Sultai Midrange by IzzetABCannon – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Historic Sultai Ramp by Marcel Warr – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #9 (11th)
Historic Bant Golos by Serraclys – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #5 (11th)
Historic Bant Scapeshift by saanctum – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open (11th)
Jund Sacrifice by Chris Sass – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Historic Mono Red Aggro by Souhei – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #9 (12th)
Historic Mono Red Burn by GOBO – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #8 (12th)
Historic Bant Golos by Serraclys – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #7 (12th)
Historic Bant Golos by Azu Cat – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #6 (12th)
Historic Simic Nexus by Aldo Leite – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open (12th)
Historic Mono Red Goblins by Madeen – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #5 (13th)
Historic Mono Blue Tempo by Firmezinha – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open (13th)
Historic Gruul Aggro by Wekys – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #7 (14th)
Historic Bant Ramp by FilipeFilth – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #5 (14th)
Historic Mono Blue Tempo by Mooch – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (14th)
Historic Bant Nexus by peppermtg – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open (14th)
Golgari Midrange by Vaughn Peters – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Historic Temur Golos by fidelver – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #6 (15th)
Historic Gruul Aggro by Casao82 – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #5 (15th)
Historic Mono Green Stompy by Rint – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open (15th)
Colorless Control by JohnRamosMTG – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Four-color Control by Noah Brisset – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Historic Mono Green Ramp by Vomi – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #8 (17th)
Historic Simic Ramp by PolloReal – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open (17th)
Four-color Midrange by Michael Brisset – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Mono-Red Planeswalkers by COUGARMEAT – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Historic Jund Citadel by Chris Sass – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #9 (19th)
Historic Elves Company by Bhobbsie – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #8 (19th)
Historic Simic Ramp by Plablito – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #2 (19th)
Four-color Midrange by Josu Alonso – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Historic Bant Ramp by MaybeJe – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (20th)
Grixis Control by Uktul – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Historic Mono Red Burn by Massapo – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #2 (21st)
Rakdos Arcanist by Yew_ – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Rakdos Sacrifice by Matt Baker – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Mono-Green Aggro by mandrakata – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Simic Ramp by Davide Caile – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Simic Ramp by Dani Díaz – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Mono-Red Goblins by Josh Dunville – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
Mono-Blue Tempo by Chakib Benhalloum – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #19
