Alchemy: Eldraine
Alchemy: Eldraine is a MTG Arena-exclusive card set in the Alchemy-series that was released on October 10, 2023.
Description
Alchemy: Eldraine is a digital only release adjacent to the release of Wilds of Eldraine. There are 30 new designed-for-digital cards included in the set (10 uncommons, 15 rares, 5 mythic rares). All of the cards are set on Eldraine.
Mechanics
The digital-only mechanics Conjure, Double team, Perpetually, Seek and Spellbook are reused. From the main set, Bargain, Celebration and the Wicked Role are used.
Drover of the Swine, Porcine Portent and Swine Rebellion are the first cards to share a spellbook, and introduce named spellbooks.
The set re-introduces Fetch counters for the first time since Commander 2020. Boons are modified so they can be used multiple times and the previously existing versions are re-titled "One-time boon". Alchemy: Eldraine doesn't make use of this new format but does contain the first instances of one-time boons.
List of exclusive digital only cards
List of cards that can be conjured
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) Porcine Portent conjures from the Three Pigs spellbook. - (
) Giant Secrets conjures X cards at random from its spellbook. - (
) Tome of Gadwick conjures a card at random from its spellbook. - () Overcooked conjures Food Fight.
- () A Golden Opportunity conjures Gilded Goose and Golden Egg.
- () Swine Rebellion conjures from the Three Pigs spellbook.
- () Outfitted Jouster conjures Steelclaw Lance and Brawler's Plate.
- () Jewel Mine Overseer conjures seven copies of Seven Dwarves.
- () Drover of the Swine conjures from the Three Pigs spellbook.
List of cards in Spellbooks
Giant Secrets
Three Pigs
Used by Drover of the Swine, Porcine Portent and Swine Rebellion.
Tome of Gadwick
Tokens
As a digital product, Alchemy: Eldraine does not contain any tokens but a number of cards in the set generate tokens, so a list is provided below for reference.
- 1/1 Rabbit creature for Harried Dash.
- Food token for Overcooked.
- Wicked Role aura enchantment with "Enchant creature", "Enchanted creature gets +1/+1." and "When this Aura is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life." for Dunbarrow Revivalist.
Notable cards
Misprints
- Outfitted Jouster was originally released with the type line "Creature — Knight". It was changed to "Creature — Human Knight" with the release of The Lost Caverns of Ixalan.
Trivia
- The Three Pigs spellbook is the smallest spellbook at just three cards.
- Grow Old Together is a follow up to the events depicted in Run Away Together.
- Outfitted Jouster is depicted wearing the Brawler's Plate and wielding a Steelclaw Lance.
- The Conundrum of Bowls references the fairytale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and is a callback to the first animated short for Throne of Eldraine.
- A Golden Opportunity references the fable of The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs.
- Accident-Prone Apprentice references the poem of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
- The several cards depicting the three pigs reference the fable of The Three Little Pigs and the nursery rhyme of This Little Pig Went to Market.
- Steady Tortoise // Harried Dash references the fable of The Tortoise and the Hare.