Historic
Historic is a digital format for MTG Arena. This is one of the largest format in terms of sets because it includes all the sets released in the game. It can be compared to the Modern format on MTG.
Rules
- Your deck must be composed of at least 60 cards, and a maximum of 250 (MTG Arena limitation).
- You can play cards from all sets.
- Cards are limited to 4 copies except basic lands.
- You can have a 15-card sideboard if you want to play BO3.
Banned cards
Warning: as of 06/30/2025, the official list of banned cards in Historic format, from the official MTGA website, is not up to date.
As of 06/30/2025, the following cards are banned in Historic on MTG Arena:
- Agent of Treachery
- Ancient Tomb
- Arid Mesa
- Blood Moon
- Bloodstained Mire
- Brainstorm
- Channel
- Chrome Mox
- Commandeer
- Dark Ritual
- Demonic Tutor
- Endurance
- Field of the Dead
- Flare of Cultivation
- Flare of Denial
- Flare of Duplication
- Flare of Fortitude
- Flare of Malice
- Flooded Strand
- Force of Vigor
- Fury
- Grief
- Harbinger of the Seas
- Intruder Alarm
- Land Tax
- Lightning Bolt
- Magus of the Moon
- Mana Drain
- Marsh Flats
- Memory Lapse
- Mishra's Bauble
- Misty Rainforest
- Mox Opal
- Natural Order
- Necropotence
- Nexus of Fate
- Oko, Thief of Crowns
- Once Upon a Time
- Polluted Delta
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
- Reanimate
- Scalding Tarn
- Show and Tell
- Sneak Attack
- Solitude
- Spreading Seas
- Strip Mine
- Subtlety
- Swords to Plowshares
- Temporal Manipulation
- Thassa's Oracle
- Tibalt's Trickery
- Time Warp
- Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
- Veil of Summer
- Verdant Catacombs
- Wilderness Reclamation
- Windswept Heath
- Winter Moon
- Wooded Foothills
Banned cards in Historic
History
- 06/30/2025 : unban of Counterspell (link)
- 11/11/2024 : ban of Temporal Manipulation (link)
- 06/03/2024 : ban of 17 cards from Modern Horizons 3 (link)
- 04/08/2024 : ban of Commandeer, Force of Vigor, Mana Drain and Reanimate (link)
- 02/05/2024 : ban of Show and Tell (link)
- 12/04/2024 : ban of Khans of Tarkir fetch-lands (link)