Alchemy: Ixalan - Card Spoilers, Set Information, Release Date, and More • MTG Arena Zone

Table of Contents

Set Details and Overview
Cards
Spellbooks
- - Brazen Boarding
  - Scalespeaker Shepherd
- Conjured Cards
Limited
- Limited Guide and Set Review
- Limited Tier List
Constructed
- Alchemy: Ixalan Card Reviews and Decklists
Mechanics

Alchemy: Ixalan is the latest installment in MTG Arena’s exclusive digital-first format, Alchemy. The set is a companion to the November 2023 Standard set The Lost Caverns of Ixalan, and the cards will continue to extend the themes and flavor of the set with 30 new cards. In this article, you’ll find all of the information we currently have available concerning Alchemy: Ixalan, including all of the cards that have been revealed so far. This guide will be updated daily as more information is revealed.

Set Details and Overview

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan may be out, but there’s still more to discover! On December 5, you’ll get another blast of 30 new cards for MTG Arena and the Alchemy and Historic formats with the release of Alchemy: Ixalan!

Release Date	December 5, 2023
Cards	30
Set Symbol	A24
Set Code	Y24
Promotional Code	6 free packs now sent to the inbox!

Collection: Alchemy boosters from the store or rewards, Alchemy: Ixalan Premier Draft, or craft them using Wildcards.
Legality: New cards will be legal for the Alchemy format, and will be automatically introduced to live digital-only eternal formats, such as Historic and Historic Brawl.

Cards

Spellbooks

Brazen Boarding

Scalespeaker Shepherd

Ancient Imperiosaur
Burning Sun's Avatar
Carnage Tyrant
Charging Monstrosaur
Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
Ghalta, Primal Hunger
Gishath, Sun's Avatar
Quartzwood Crasher
Regisaur Alpha
Ripjaw Raptor
Shifting Ceratops
Territorial Allosaurus
Tranquil Frillback
Verdant Sun's Avatar
Zacama, Primal Calamity

Conjured Cards

Limited

Premier Draft Alchemy: Ixalan runs from December 5 to December 22. Players draft three packs of LCI, but one common card in each pack is replaced with a card from Alchemy: Ixalan. This card can be any rarity as follows:

55% of packs contain an uncommon card.
38.57% of packs contain a rare card.
6.43% of packs contain a mythic card.
Each rare appears twice as often as each mythic.

Limited Guide and Set Review

Alchemy: Ixalan Draft Guide and Limited Set Review

Limited Tier List

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) Limited Tier List

Constructed

Alchemy: Ixalan Card Reviews and Decklists

Coming soon!

Mechanics

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan mechanics:

Craft: The new ability craft focuses on two of the better parts of exploration: finding cool stuff and then building better stuff from the cool stuff you found. Each card with craft is a transforming double-faced card.
Transforming Double-Faced Cards: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan features other transforming double-faced cards in addition to those with craft. Many of these transform in more traditional ways, not leaving the battlefield and returning but rather just turning from front face to back face.
Descended: Onward toward Chimil we go! Several cards in this set have abilities that check if you’ve descended this turn. You’ve descended if a permanent card has been put into your graveyard from anywhere.
Descend and Fathomless Descent: Closely connected to descending are three ability words used to highlight abilities that all care about the number of permanent cards in your graveyard. How serendipitous!

Alchemy’s digital-only mechanics:

Conjure: Creates cards out of thin air as a digital object that acts just like a normal card would (as compared to tokens).
Seek: Cards with this mechanic will have the game randomly choose a card from the library that meets the criteria specified on the card and put it in to your hand.
Perpetual: Permanently changes a card’s properties, whether they are in exile, graveyard, hand, or battlefield.
Spellbook: Conjure one from among three randomly selected (draft) from a card’s Spellbook.
Intensity: Cards with intensity will start with their intensity at a certain value, and the card’s text will include mechanics for perpetually increasing or decreasing its intensity as the game goes on.
Boon: Boon is a way to represent delayed triggers, similar to an emblem, but once they trigger, they disappear.