D&D 5E New MtG Arena Format Alchemy will add new D&D cards

[Henadic Theologian]

So there is going to be a new format for Arena called Alchemy (love the name), which is basically standard, plus new cards from digital only sets tied to premier sets.


So the first Alchemy set is primarily tied to Crimson Vow, BUT it's a special Alchemy set because it will have new digital only cards for all the standard legal sets.

This means this 63 card digital only Alchemy Set will have Digital Only cards for Zendikar, Kaldheim, Strixhaven, Forgotten Realms, and Innistrad (which it will lean into).

Everyone on Arena will get 3 free Alchemy packs and some free Alechemy cards to start things off.

These cards will be legal in what they call Live formats and Alchemy, but not on what they call the paper formats (or Arena's equilivant to paper formats).

So they are legal in Historic Brawl, Historic, and Alchemy, but not legal in Standard or Brawl.

I suspect they will have a digital only Elminister Planeswalker or Creature, that will have Spell Book,like a couple of cards have, that the card will conjure cards into you hand or library from.

It might have Jarlaxle too or other commonly requested D&D characters too.


Oh one weird think is the new Spider Legendary Creature from Innistrad has her own Spellbook, they you can draw cards from,and one of those cards in her spell book, is a DRIDER, so does this suggest Driders are a thing in Innistrad or at least in MtG in general?

 

[Parmandur]

Oh one weird think is the new Spider Legendary Creature from Innistrad has her own Spellbook, they you can draw cards from,and one of those cards in her spell book, is a DRIDER, so does this suggest Driders are a thing in Innistrad or at least in MtG in general?

The Strixhaven book seems to be chock-full of references to traditional D&D IP creatures: I think they are going all in on mixing the IP at this point, no looking back.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

MTG Arena: State of the Game – Alchemy | MAGIC: THE GATHERING

Alchemy is coming! Find out what it is and what's new in MTG Arena.

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Some more Intel, the Alchemy: Innistrad set will have no commons, most the the cards will be from Innistrad, but some will be from the other standard sets (Zendikar, Kaldheim, Strixhaven, and Forgotten Realms). I'm curious if any of the new characters from Strixhaven: Cirriculum of Chaos will in the set.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

The Nerd rage over what this does to the Historic format is off the charts. Honestly Maybe they should split Historic into Historic Traditional and Alchemy Historic.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

The Strixhaven book seems to be chock-full of references to traditional D&D IP creatures: I think they are going all in on mixing the IP at this point, no looking back.

Maybe, but no one else had really noticed it yet,they are too angry about WotC warning Historics balanced with this.

 

[Scribe]

The Nerd rage over what this does to the Historic format is off the charts. Honestly Maybe they should split Historic into Historic Traditional and Alchemy Historic.

Eh, lets not fool ourselves into thinking Wizards was balancing Historic anyway.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

The online digital games mean a lot of players testing the rules and the power balance, and this is a lot of feedback, but also the changes are easier to fix possible broken power. Then the digital version will allow to test new ideas, and later with the experencie dareing to print the paper version.

 

[Rikka66]

The online digital games mean a lot of players testing the rules and the power balance, and this is a lot of feedback, but also the changes are easier to fix possible broken power. Then the digital version will allow to test new ideas, and later with the experencie dareing to print the paper version.

Modern Horizons 2 was a paper only product, and I'd be shocked if Alchemy cards are more powerful than those in MH2.

 

[Parmandur]

The Nerd rage over what this does to the Historic format is off the charts. Honestly Maybe they should split Historic into Historic Traditional and Alchemy Historic.

That happens every time WotC releases a Magic product.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Modern Horizons 2 was a paper only product, and I'd be shocked if Alchemy cards are more powerful than those in MH2.

MH2 cards ended up on Arena thanks to Jumpstart Modern Horizons (which was also the first case of digital only cards).