168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic The Gathering is home to many different formats and ways to play the game. Its digital game, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: Arena, has its own share of exclusive formats thanks to its unique card pool. Among these exclusive formats is Alchemy, a format that utilizes digita🦂l-only mechanics, such as buffing weak cards and nerfing powerful ones.
Alchemy can be an expensive format due to the number of rares and mythic rares that some of the best decks use. However, there are plenty of powerful decks you can easi🌸ly build on a budget, with them not requiring more than one playset of a rare.
10 Selesnya Lif♉egain ဣ
4 Cleric Class (U) |
4 Lunarch Veteran (C) |
4 Fortifying Draught (U) |
4 Hallowed Priest (U) |
4 Impassioned Orator (C) |
2 Revitalize (C) |
4 Voice Of The Blessed (R) |
2 Devouring Tendrils (U) |
4 Propserous Innkeeper (U) |
4 Trelasarra, Moon Dancer (U) |
4 Blossoming Sands (C) |
11 Plains |
9 Forests |
Total: 14 Commons, 22 Uncommons, 4 Rares
The staple of budget decks,168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Lifegain is a common archetype due to how easy it is to build a strong deck without a lot of investment in wildcards. Selesnya Lifegain is the best build of it for Alchemy, including being one of the default decks available to new players. With a few wildcar𓄧ds, it can be upgraded to a rather powerful version of it.
Selesnya Lifegain is a deck based aroꦓund cre﷽atures with triggers whenever you gain life. This is often accomplished with creatures that gain life whenever another creature enters the battlefield. Cards like Trelasarra, Moon Dancer, and Voice Of The Blessed are your best payoffs, allowing you to make powerful threats that can get out of hand quickly.
9 Boros Equipment 💟
4 Resolute Strike (C) |
2 Dueling Rapier (C) |
4 Fireblade Charger (U) |
2 Rabbit Battery (U) |
4 Soulstealer Axe (U) |
2 Team Pennant (U) |
2 Dwarfhold Champion (C) |
4 Kor Blademaster (U) |
4 Maul Of The Skyclaves (R) |
4 Kargan Warleader (U) |
4 Bruenor Battlehammer (U) |
4 Wind-Scarred Crag (C) |
11 Plains |
9 Mountains |
Total: 12 Commons, 24 Uncommons, 4 Rares
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Equipment mechanic didn't see much play in Standard, but thanks to some rebalancing for some key enablers, they are able to shine in Alchemy. Boros Equipment had multiple cards buffed in Alchemy, allowing for a powerful deck to emerge that didn't need much wildcard investment.
The deck focuses around putting powerful Equipment on creatures that are boosted up even further when equipped. Kor Blademaster gives all-equipped Warriors double strike, a creature type almost all your creatures are. Brueno𒈔r Battlehammer lets you easily equip your Equipment, as it allows you to pay zero mana to do so instead of whatever ༺cost it normally has.
8 𝄹 𒉰 Izzet Tempo
4 Symmetry Sage (U) |
2 Consider (C) |
4 Delver Of Secrets (U) |
4 Fading Hope (U) |
2 Spell Pierce (C) |
4 Play With Fire (U) |
4 Mentor's Guidance (U) |
4 Ledger Shredder (R) |
4 Expressive Iteration (U) |
4 Umara Mystic (U) |
4 Swiftwater Cliffs (C) |
12 Islands |
8 Mountains |
Total: 8 Commons, 28 Uncommons, 4 Rares
Izzet Tempo is a spellslinger deck based around using low-mana instants and sorceries that boost up other creatures. Thanks to some Alchemy re-works to cards like Symmetry Sage, it's a deck that can swing the game in their favor very quickly.
Utilizing cards like Delver Of Secrets and Ledger Shredder that can easily gain flying, Symmetry Sage makes their base stats better. This is especially useful for Ledger Shredder since it gets counters easily. Fading Hope and Play With Fire help to maintain tempo, setting the opponent's game state back while setting up your own for a burst of massive damage.
7 Mono-Red Aggro 💃
4 Goblin Javelineer (C) |
4 Kumano Faces Kakkazan (U) |
4 Play With Fire (U) |
4 Reinforced Ronin (U) |
4 Tiefling Outcasts (R) |
4 Big Spender (U) |
4 Mephit's Enthusiasm (U) |
4 Ambergris, Citadel Agent (U) |
4 Traumatic Prank (U |
24 Mountains |
Total: 4 Commons, 28 Uncommons, 4 Rares
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mono-Red Aggro is a staple of many formats, and Alchemy is no exception. This version of the deck utilizes cards that mix in burn with the usual aggressive low-mana creatures, often with haste. Big Spender is an Alchemy-original card that helps ensure you always have mana to cast spells, as whenever one or more creatures are blocked, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:you get a Treasure token.
Reinforceඣd Ronin and Ambergris, Citadel Agent, both help you to draw cards while being solid creatures, ensuring that you will never run out of steam from playing out your ha𒆙nd so quickly.
6 Rakdos Sacrifice ꦓ ꧒
4 Shambling Ghast (C) |
4 Experimental Synthesizer (C) |
4 Voldaren Epicure (C) |
4 Voltage Surge (C) |
4 Deadly Dispute (C) |
4 Infernal Grasp (U) |
4 Bloodtithe Harvester (U) |
4 Oni-Cult Anvil (U) |
4 Sanguine Brushstroke (R) |
4 Bloodfell Caves (C) |
10 Mountains |
10 Swamps |
Total: 24 Commons, 12 Uncommons, 4 Rares
Rakdos Sacrifice is an archetype that sees play in just about every format on Arena. The Alchemy version has the extra bonus of being one of the best decks in the format, one that can be built with just four rare wildcards. Sanguine Brushstroke is the star of the deck, giving you a copy of Blood Artist on the field to trigger of🌜f every sacrifice you make.
Sanguine Brushstroke will also burn for one damage whenever a Blood token is sacrificed, and with cards like Voldaren Epicure and Bloodtithe Harvester, it's easy to get plenty of Blood tokens on the field. Oni-Cult Anvil allows you to get 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a constant stream of sacrifice fodder onto th💃e field, to keep the Blood Artist triggers coming.
5 Dimir Zombies ♏
4 Champion Of The Perished (R) |
4 Shambling Ghast (C) |
4 Cast Down (U) |
2 Raise The Dragur (C) |
4 Bladestitched Skaab (U) |
4 Falcon Abomination (C) |
2 Flip The Switch (C) |
4 Archghoul Of Thraben (U) |
4 Morbid Opportunist (U) |
4 Narfi, Betrayer King (U) |
4 Ice Tunnel (C) |
9 Snow-Covered Islands |
11 Snow-Covered Swamps |
Total: 16 Commons, 20 Uncommons, 4 Rares
Dimir Zombies has gotten a nice boost in Alchemy thanks to the buffing of cards like Falcon Abomination. There are many payoffs for Zombies, with multiple playable lords that give Zombies power and toughness boosts. It's one of the few archetypes that can take full advantage of Snow lands being available thanks to Narfi, Betrayer King, another card buffed thanks to Alchemy changes.
Champion Of The Perished is one of the largest payoffs, growing with each Zombie entering the battlefield. Thanks to its co🧔lor, Dimir Zombies can act as a midrange deck, with powerful removal and counterspells both available in it.
4 ඣ B💫oros Burn
4 Portable Hole (U) |
4 Goblin Javelinner (C) |
4 Kumano Faces Kakkazan (U) |
4 Play With Fire (U) |
4 Flame Channeler (U) |
4 Kessig Flamebreather (C) |
4 Thermo-Alchemist (C) |
4 Sacred Fire (U) |
4 Toralf's Disciple (R) |
4 Wing-Scarred Crag (C) |
13 Mountains |
7 Plains |
Total: 16 Commons, 20 Uncommons, 4 Rares
Burn is one of the most common archetypes in all the formats, and is often a top strategy for budget players. Alchemy is no exception, with a budget Boros Burn deck being a powerful choice in the format. Boros Burn is built around powerful burn spells as well as creatures that can deal extra burn damage to deal massive amounts of damage directly to your opponent's life total.
Toralf's Disciple even lets you conjure four copies of Lightning Bolt, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a burn spell staple in all burn decks, right into your deck. When mixed in with multiple triggers of Kessig Flamebreather and Thermo-Alchemist, it's not uncommon to deal more than a quarter of the opponent's life total with just a few cards.
3 🐟 Selesnya Enchantments ꧃
4 Generous Visitor (U) |
4 Circle Of Confinement (U) |
4 Michiko's Reign Of Truth (U) |
4 Spirited Companion (C) |
4 Kami Of Transience (R) |
4 Rune Of Might (U) |
4 Jukai Naturalist (U) |
4 Borrowed Time (U) |
4 Touch The Spirit Realm (U) |
4 Blossoming Sands (C) |
11 Plains |
9 Forests |
Total: 8 Commons, 28 Uncommons, 4 Rares
While the Runes version is more popular, Selesnya 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Enchantments is a fantastic budget version of🥂 the deck utilizing most of the same core. While that deck is focused on Runes, Selesnya Enchantments is more focused on broad enchantments giving boওosts to other creatures.
Thanks to Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, Alchemy has a ton of big payoffs for playing enchantments like Kami Of Transience and Michiko's Reign Of Truth. It even has enchantment removal in Circle Of Confinement and Borrowed Time to let you control the board while giving your enchantment creatures more power and toughness.
2 🎉 Orzhov Venture
4 Fates' Reversal (C) |
4 Mind Spike (U) |
4 Cloister Gargoyle (U) |
4 Precipitous Drop (C) |
4 Cast Down (U) |
4 Infernal Grasp (U) |
4 Triumphant Adventurer (R) |
4 Barrowin Of Clan Undurr (U) |
4 Planar Ally (U) |
4 Scoured Barrens (C0 |
10 Plains |
10 Swamps |
Total: 12 Commons, 24 Uncommons, 4 Rares
The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:venture mechanic was the biggest winner when it came to Alchemy adjustments. It made no splash in Standard but with the changes, became a top-tier threat in Alchemy. While the strongest Venture decks need a lot of rares and mythics, a budget version is still perfectly playable. The only rare that's a necessity is Triumphant Adventurer.
Thanks to its Orzhov colors, Orzhov Venture 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:has access to fantastic removal, with Precipitous Drop also allowing you to venture further into your dungeons. It's a fantastic mid-range deck, with venturing allowing you to maintain tempo easily with how many ways you can trigger it.
1 🔯 🦩 Izzet Dragons
4 Fading Hope (U) |
2 Jwari Disruption (U) |
4 Dragon's Fire (C) |
4 Fearsome Whelp (U) |
2 Divide By Zero (U) |
2 Carnelian Orb Of Dragonkind (U) |
4 Warriors Of Tiamat (C) |
4 Wrathful Red Dragon (R) |
4 Lozhan, Dragons' Legacy (U) |
2 Red Dragon (U) |
2 Blue Dragon (U) |
4 Sword Coast Serpent (U) |
4 Temple Of The Dragon Queen (U) |
4 Swiftwater Cliffs (C) |
6 Islands |
8 Mountains |
Total: 12 Commons, 30 Uncommons, 4 Rares
Thanks to Fearsome Whelp, almost ever꧒y combination of Dragons is playable in Alchemy so long as it runs red to play it. While Simic may be the most pཧowerful version, Izzet Dragons is a fantastic budget choice that still has a lot of power to it.
Fearsome Whelp will continuously discount your Dragons' each upkeep, allowing you to cast high-mana Dragon creatures for much cheaper and flood the field with their powerful effects. The Izzet Dragon build lets you play a more tempo-oriented one with cads like Fading Hope and Divide By Zero, keeping your opponent's creatures off the field or keeping yours safe in a pinch.