MTG Eternal 2026 Historic League Season One

Hello planeswalkers and Historians!

alfalfa1/Jamonde here, back with a report on our first Historic League of 2026!

This league primarily focused on the post Eldrazi ban, pre Food Chain metagame that existed just before TMNT was released on Arena; as such, the lists do not reflect a metagame with Food Chain decks nor decks to combat them!

Note: as of the posting of this article, Food Chain has been banned, so the lists here are fairly representative of what can be competitively played in Historic today!

Without further ado, here are your top 8 (in order of placement for the top 4, and in order of Swiss round standings for players 5 - 8):

SATIRA on UW Hammer
Käpälä on Jund Yawgmoth
e8741 on Dimir Frog Control
Drop the Poptart on UW High Noon
RainbowPenguin on UB Ninjas
Supersquidninja on Scape Titan with Rings
Freeyoumind on 4 color Upheaval
Cathartic_66146 on 4 color humans

What a wide selection for top 8! Perhaps the bans did what they intended to - maybe Historic has healed? In addition, here are the details of how the top 8 played out: MTG Eternal Historic League 2026 S1 Top 8 - Challenge

Please make sure to check out the full list of decks and participants - both pre and post ban deck lists are included!

Either way, thank you for reading along, and we hope you can join us in our next league - stay tuned for more great events!