Episode 152: Is Historic History? - a podcast by The Dive Down

It's another in our awesome series of top-tier Patreon request episodes, as we take on Mickey S's (no, the other Mickey S) challenge to explore the decks and metagame of best-of-one Historic on Arena. We played a bunch of fun decks and faced off against even more, and have a lot of thoughts on the format. Prior to that, we break down the Innistrad Set Championship and go over the announcement of Alchemy and its impact on Historic, and perhaps all of Magic. Thanks again, Mickey!
The Break Down: Top 8s All AroundThe Dive Down: Alchemical Explanations
The Dive Down, cont: Best of One, Best of AllBecome a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown
Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021"Timestamps:
5:15 - Housekeeping6:32 - Dave and Stan top 8 a store championship!
15:56 - Alchemy... is here22:55 - The positives
32:14 - Kinda moving into the negatives here41:05 - Some final takes
48:05 - The Dive Down begins - the Innistrad Set Championship52:45 - The Top 8
57:17 - Best-of-One Historic - what's the difference?1:02:00 - The decks of BO1 Historic - Heliod Lifegain
1:06:17 - Elves1:08:53 - Gruul Shamans
1:10:27 - Izzet Phoenix1:17:35 - Abzan Auras
1:21:24 - Azorius Auras1:25:02 - Selesnya Humans
1:27:45 - Mono-W Humans1:32:50 - Chonky Red
1:34:07 - Mono-Red Torbran1:41:28 - The rest of the BO1 metagame
1:46:55 - Our thoughts on BO11:53:30 - Closing out
Links from this week's episode:The Arena State of the Game article: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/mtg-arena-state-game-alchemy-2021-12-02
Introducing Alchemy: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/introducing-alchemy-new-way-play-mtg-arena-2021-12-02The Innistrad Championship: https://magic.gg/events/innistrad-championship
The Untapped.gg Historic tier list: https://mtga.untapped.gg/meta/tierlist?format=historicOur opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name?
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