MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 Decklists and Metagame Breakdown

The third MTG Arena Zone Open Tournament was held, and this week 72 players enrolled to compete in best-of-three Historic for a chance to win cash prizes and a month of Premium membership. Here, you can check out the full VOD as well as metagame data and the top performing decklists. You can also view the full tournament details on our MTG Melee tournament page and follow us there if you wish to be notified of future tournaments. You can also check out the report for the past two weeks below if you are interested in how they went:

• MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #2
• MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #1

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!

• DanyTlaw
• DavidDoesMTG
• WaifuGate
• Strider Stone

Metagame

Although Core Set 2021 has been released for a few days, it looks like players are not ready to fully experiment with the new cards quite yet – and going with what they are most familiar with. This is similar to how Standard is evolving so far, though Historic being a non-rotating format means things are a bit more steady. Taras Kohut, who took first place with the faithful Gruul Aggro, had four copies of Scavenging Ooze in the maindeck and we saw the usual Historic suspects take the top 8 slots with miminal use of new cards.

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Historic Gruul Aggro by Taras Kohut – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (1st)

Final Standing:

1st

Historic Simic Nexus by Drakhaaon – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (2nd)

Final Standing:

2nd

Historic Sultai Yarok Field by Omegad23 – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (3rd)

Final Standing:

3rd

Historic Gruul Aggro by SmoakPipeMTG – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (4th)

Final Standing:

4th

Historic Simic Nexus by IceBR – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (5th)

Final Standing:

5th

Historic Rakdos Lurrus Sacrifice by PDeS – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (6th)

Final Standing:

6th

Historic Mono Red Aggro by Massapo – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (7th)

Final Standing:

7th

Historic Mono Red Aggro by infinite – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (8th)

Final Standing:

8th

Historic Rakdos Lurrus Sacrifice by Folfire – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (9th)

Final Standing:

9th

Historic Jund Dinosaurs by kotka – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (10th)

Final Standing:

10th

Historic Mono Blue Tempo by Mooch – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (14th)

Final Standing:

14th

Historic Izzet Tempo by Supanegadethlazor – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (19th)

Final Standing:

19th

Historic Bant Ramp by MaybeJe – MTG Arena Zone Historic Open #3 (20th)

Final Standing:

20th