Anyone here play Alchemy?

[u/Mormanades]

I've been grinding a lot of standard and brawl but the meta gets a little boring once you reach diamond. I just saw that Alchemy is on a 2 year rotation and the new cards at least offer some entertainment value. Anyone have any tips and which sets have the best Alchemy cards? I know bloomburrow rotates pretty soon.

[u/gone_smell_blind]

I actually specifically avoid it as much as possible

[u/steepleanon]

No

[u/_Laughing_Man]

Haven't played alchemy in a while, but off the top of my head EoE has some strong alchemy cards.

[u/Zax_the_bunny]

We (Alchemy players) have our own subreddit - r/MagicAlchemy - so you might like to try asking there. I do semi-regular posts about the Alchemy BO1 meta there - I haven't done one super-recently but you'll find things if you scroll through the feed. If I am remembering correctly, you might also find some other useful links in a pinned post.

[u/Vrienchass]

Vivee scared me away from alchemy. But otherwise I love it. The two year rotation is significantly better than the 3 year rotation of current standard.

The alchemy specific cards are interesting puzzles to build around and the format is rarely solved making it a lot of fun to tinker in.

It feels like FNM.

[u/jeppeww]

Altheriax on youtube showcases alchemy decks on occasion, last week he had a video on a elf combo deck that i tried a little bit and it's pretty sweet.

[u/Vigor_Mortis_]

Yes. If you're slightly above average in terms of skill and you're playing a fast deck then the Bo1 Alchemy event is basically free gems.

[u/ddffgghh69]

whenever I think of an alchemy card I’d want to build around, it’s not even in the format anymore

[u/One-Return-7247]

I do, started playing recently because the slow rotation in standard and massive card pool has really turned me off from it. I played the mono blue subtlety deck before it got (effectively) banned, then moved on to Thor izzet combo, had a blast with both decks.

[u/crazytail11]

maybe once a month I play a few games, I have a temur Exhaust deck that I built just because I like [[Audacious Knuckleblade]]

[u/mtgcf → u/crazytail11]

Audacious Knuckleblade - (G) (SF) (txt)

[u/DarthNixilis]

I think I would play it more if eternal formats have their own paper versions. Sometimes i dip into it, but I mostly play Standard.

I did play Eternal DCG for a while which was designed to basically be MTG Alchemy from the beginning. 

[u/rossbalch → u/DarthNixilis]

Very sad Eternal is on life support. Game is very well designed and the digital first nature really works in a way that Alchemy just doesn't for me in MTG. I also think the tweaks to the mana system strike a good balance where some modern games have just ditched it.

[u/Begging_Murphy]

Yes!!! More fun than standard, and I’m an online only player so I don’t give a fuck that it’s not playable on paper.

[u/Workaholic56]

Mardu tokens has some crazy strong alchemy only cards to the point I stopped playing alchemy