Table of Contents
- Set Details and Overview
- Review and Decks
- Cards
- Urza’s Construction Drone
- Perilous Iteration
- Melt Through
- Assemble the Team
- Legion of Clay
- Hurkyl’s Prodigy
- Patchplate Resolute
- Argothian Uprooting
- Foundry Groundbreaker
- Sylvan Smite
- Gixian Recycler
- Jarsyl, Dark Agee Scion
- Piece It Together
- Tawnos Endures
- Norn’s Disassembly
- Warzone Duplicator
- Great Desert Hellion
- Kayla’s Kindling
- By Elspeth’s Command
- Forgefire Automaton
- Richlau, Headmaster
- Tomakul Phoenix
- Penregon Besieged
- Raddic, Tal Zealot
- Yotian Courier
- Fallaji Antiquarian
- Rusko, Clockmaker
- Lonely End
- Argvian Welcome
- Crucias, Titan of the Waves
- Mechanics
- Limited
- Constructed
- Events
Alchemy: The Brothers’ War is the sixth installment in MTG Arena’s exclusive digital-first format, Alchemy. The set is a companion to the November 2022 Standard set The Brothers’ War, and the cards will continue to extend the themes and flavor of the set with 30 new crds. In this article, you’ll find all of the information we currently have available concerning Alchemy: The Brothers’ War, 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
Release Date | MTG Arena: Tuesday, December 13, 2022 at around 8 AM PST. |
Cards | 30 |
Set Symbol | |
Set Code | Y23 |
Promotional Code | 6 free packs now sent to the inbox! |
- Collection: Alchemy boosters from the store or rewards, Alchemy: The Brothers’ War 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.
Review and Decks
Cards
Mechanics
Alchemy: The Brothers’ War continues on with the themes from its parent expansion:
- Unearth: This returning mechanic lets you pay a creature’s Unearth cost from the graveyard and have it return to the battlefield with haste until end of turn.
- Prototype: Artifact creatures with the Prototype ability let you play them with smaller power and toughness for a discount. They keep their abilities.
- Powerstones: Powerstones are artifact tokens that tap for one colorless mana but can’t be used to cast non-artifact spells.
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.
Limited
Guides for Limited coming soon!
Constructed
Guides for Alchemy, Historic, and Historic Brawl coming soon!
Events
Alchemy: The Brothers’ War packs will be awarded by any Alchemy related event on MTG Arena.
Premier Draft Alchemy The Brothers’ War
- Duration: December 13, 2022 at 8:00 AM PST – December 23, 2022 at 8:00 AM PST
- Format: The Brothers’ War Draft
- Entry Fee: 10,000 gold or 1,500 gems or Draft Token
- Ends After: 7 wins or 3 losses, whichever comes first.
- Match Structure: Best-of-one matches (BO1)
This special event gives players the opportunity to acquire Alchemy cards through drafting. Premier Draft The Brothers’ War Alchemy has the same entry and payouts as the familiar Premier Draft events and awards Alchemy: The Brothers’ War packs.
Into the Future
- Duration: December 13, 2022 at 8:00 AM PST – December 15, at 8:00 AM PST
- Format: Alchemy Preconstructed
- Entry Fee: Free
- Ends After: You can keep playing, but rewards do not go past three wins.
- Match Structure: Best-of-one matches (BO1)
Into the Future returns with preconstructed decks that spotlight new cards and their capabilities. This event has no entry fee, awards Alchemy: The Brothers’ War packs, and earns you 1,000 Mastery XP for participating!
Alchemy Metagame Challenge
The Alchemy Metagame Challenge returns as an excellent way for constructed players to boost their collection.
- Duration: December 21, 2022 at 8:00 AM PST – December 24, at 8:00 AM PST
- Format: Alchemy
- Entry Fee: 2,000 Gold or 400 Gems
- Ends After: 7 wins or 1 loss, whichever comes first – single elimination.
- Match Structure: Best-of-three matches (BO3)