While it may be among the newest formats to grace 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering's constructed offerings, Alchemy has already become no stranger to the power of combo decks. A combo deck works by assembling a handful of cards that synergize🅷 with one another onto the battlefield, then exploiting said synergies. Sometimes, combo decks provide a leg up that makes it a lot easier for your deck to achieve victory.
However, the most powerful combo decks are capable of outright winning the game on the spot, should they succeed in enacting their game plan. This is thanks to Magic being home to a number of so-called "infinite" combos, which allow players to perform an action repeatedly until they win the game. Recently, Alchemy has birthed both styles of combo decks in the top echelons of its metagame. Without further ado, let's take a closer look at how they work.
5 Oni-Cult Anvil + Immersturm Predator + Lolth, Spiꦬder Queen
As far as combos go, this is a rather slow engine. Nonetheless, it prevents a near-inevitable win condition when fully assembled. Oni-Cult Anvil has become a popular card since its release in Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, spawning many iterations of Anvil decks that look to explo꧂it its powerful, repeatable ability.
One such iteration is this version of the Rakdos (red/black) Anvil deck, which looks to provide the Anvil fodder with familiar cards like Experimental Synthesizer, Voldaren Epicure, and Bloodtithe Harvester, while repeatedly attacking in with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:an indestructible flying Dragon. Better yet, you can further dominate the game once a Lolth, Spider Queen comes down, thanks to Anvil triggers adding loyalty to the pl🐼aneswa🗹lker every turn.
4 Faithful Mending + Velomachus L⭕orehold + Invoke Jဣustice
Known as the Jeskai (red/whit𓃲e/blue) Velomachus deck, this combo involves pitching a Velomachus Lorehold into the graveyard so that you can bring it back with Invoke Justice two turns early. What makes this combo especially brutal is the counters that Invoke Justice puts onto Velo🥀machus.
Thanks to those counters, Velomachus becomes a 9/9 haste flyer. Here's the real kicker though: the wording on Velomachus' ability to cast a spell for free from the top seven of your library mentions that it must be less than Velomachus' power. Consequently, with the added counters, you can now cast Alrund's Epiphany off the Dragon's ability and end the game on the spot.
3 Jukai Naturalist + Kami of ๊Transcience + Michiko, R🧜eign of Truth
Like Rakdos Anvil, Selesnya (green/white) enchantments won't win you the game on the spot. However, the synergies that this deck presents are so numerous that it's a lot more difficult than answering a single spell or card in order to beat it. In this way, Selesnya enchantments is a more reliable combo deck: it won't fold just because your opponent is packing some counterspells.
The idea is to reduce the cost of just about every card in your deck by getting a Jukai Naturalist onto the battlefield, then flood the board with enchantments and enchantment creatures. Once you've got enough of them down, Michiko, Reign of Truth turns one of your creatures into a huge attacker that your opponent won't be able to survive against for long. It's all the better if this boost happens to hit a Kami of Transcience, thanks to the creature's trample keyword making it immune to chump blocks (putting a small blocker in the way to preserve life).
2 🐈 🔥 Racketeer Boss + Grinning Ignus + Cabaretti Revels
The Alchemy: New Capenna set brought a handful of new tools to the format, but no one could have guessed that Racketeer Boss would end up being the most influential. While it's certainly a good card, Treasure tokens can only take you so far, right? Well, not when they enable you to play a creature like Grinning Ignus an infinite number of times.
This combo works as follows. You cast Racketeer Boss while having a Grinning Ignus in hand, then choose the Ignus as a target for the Racketeer's perpetual Treasure token enter-the-battlefield effect. On the following turn, you resolve a Cabaretti Revels. Once you untap again, you can cast Grinning Ignus an infinite number of times, thanks to its activated ability and it now making a Treasure token any time it enters the battlefield.
In other words, you can use the Grinning Ignus to pull every creature that costs less than three mana from your deck with Cabaretti Revels triggers. Eventually, you'll pull a Dina, Soul Steeper and a Prosperous Innkeeper from your deck. These two cards then provide infinite damage, since you can play Grinning Ignus an infinite number of times, successfully delivering your victory.
1 𒐪 Racketeer Boss + Grinning Ignus + Lunarch Veteran/Prosperous Innkeeper
If you thought the last combo was broken, don't worry! We are here to assure you that it gets worse. Instead of relying on Cabaretti Revels to pull every creature from your library and win the game, you can combo off a turn earlier thanks to Lunarch Veteran. This deck uses the same Racketeer Boss and Grinning Ignus combo as outlined above, except that it doesn't actually 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:remove the opponent from the game.
Instead, it just provides you with an infinite loop to generate infinite life. While this is a fine and dandy way to win in paper Magic, as players can simply say that they cast the card an infinite amount of times, Arena has no such functions. As a result, any opponent who watches you achieve the infinite life combo needs to actively surrender the game in order for you both to move on to the next match. Surely, there aren't any Magic players who would get salty enough from a turn three combo loss to never press the surrender button...
