Summary

• Alchemy introduces new cards and mechanics like heist and conjuring, adding versatility to gameplay in various formats.
• Cards like Runecarved Obelisk and Vona de Iedo offer unique abilities that can lead to powerful plays and strategy in matches.
• Mechanics like heist, seen in cards like Thieving Aven and Impetuous Lootmonger, can provide strong advantages and ramp potential.

Alchemy: Thunder Junction is a digital-exclusive set available in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering Arena. The set introduꦦces 30 new cards available for use 🅰in the Alchemy (which will rotate two years after their release), Historic, Timeless, and Brawl.

Alchemy: Thunder Junction introduces new mechanics to Magic: The Gathering, such as heist, which lets you exile one of three nonland cards from your opponent's library to cast them using mana of any color later. Conjuring also makes a return with multiple cards having their own spellbooks and a cycle of cards that can create the Moxen. There are plenty of powerful cards available, with some strong enough to see play in eternal formats.

10 Runecarved ꦑObelisk

Mana Rock Tutor

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:A mana rock for four mana is not ideal, but Runecarved Obelisk makes up for it by not just tapping🌃 for two mana instead꧒ of one, but being able to tutor out your highest mana value card after using it a few times once it starts getting charge counters.

While you don't get to choose the card you seek, if you only have one card with the highest mana value, you'll always hit that with seek, as Runecarved Obelisk will always try to get the card with the highest mana value left in it.

9 Vona D𓆉e Iedo, The Antifex 🌊

Menacing Removal

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Removal spells attached to permanents are great as they get rid of a problem card on your opponent's field while giving you a body to work with on yours. Vona de Iedo, the Antifex is a great card as it can also get you a copy of the destroyed card.

The casting cost isn't ideal, but under the right conditions, it can lead to a big blowup by stealing one of your opponent's best creatures to use. A 4/2 with menace can be hard to deal with, too, especially since Vona's ability can clear out blockers that would otherwise lead to Vona being destroyed by battle.

8 Intruder's Inquisition

Discard And Destroy

Intruder's Inquisition needs a few things ready before it gets going, as it needs a creature on the battlefield. If the creature you use has high power, you can get rid of one of your opponent's weaker creatures to make sure Intruder's Inquisition deals excess damage 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:to force a discard.

Intruder's Inquisition is easy to play and can come up late-game to get rid of one of your opponent's win conditions if they're playing a more midrange deck to get rid of their top-end. Since it always discards the card with the highest mana value, it'll often get rid of the most important card in a hand.

7 Thieving Aven 🍨

Heist In The Air

Heist is a very strong mechanic, as it'll never whiff on lands and helps you get rid of an opponent's card that'll hamper you and lets you turn it around on them. Though Thieving Aven is the weakest card with heist, the mechanic is so strong it still stands as one of the best cards in Alchemy: Thunder Junction.

Since Thieving Aven has flying, it becomes harder for your opponent to block it. If you have ways to give it d🅰ouble strike, you can heist twice in a single combat instead of just once.

6 ꦫ Silent Extraction𝓰

Seeking Mana Leak

Two-mana counterspells tend to be among the🌳 stron♐gest, since they're useful early game and late game. While your opponent can pay a tax to negate Silent Extraction, they still need the mana to actually do so. If your opponent doesn't play around it, Silent Extraction can be game-winning if it counters the right spell.

If threshold ever comes up, you might be able to seek out a creature to replace Silent Extraction in the hand. However, this requires a lot of things to go right (such as countering a card with the mana value you need to tutor), so the counter is the main at❀traction.

5 ♉ Grenzo, Crooked Jailer

The Heist Never Ends

Grenzo, Crooked Jailer is a card that, if it sticks to the battlefield, will snowball out of control. You get to keep heisting every upkeep, and even cast one of those spells for free each turn. If you steal a top-end card from your opponent's library, you can potentially cast a game-ending spell for free.

Grenzo does need a lot of mana available before it hits the battlefield, so it's held back slightly by its mana value. However, the advantage it provides makes the investment worth it, especially if you have ways to protect it.

4 Teysa Of The Ghost Council ൲ ♛

Blink And Miss It

Cards that can snowball are must-answer threats, and Teysa Of The Ghost Council is that, and it has to be answered on your turn since it'll exile itself at every end step. There's almost no reason not to use Teysa's effect, as it'll re-enter the battlefield to give you another 1/1 Spirit and an extra intensity.

Teysa Of The Ghost Council isn't a card you'll be attacking with often, but it can gain power with its increased intensity 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:since it's a Spirit itself. The Spirit tokens Teysa creates have flying, making them not just evasive but powerful with the static stat♎ boost Teysa p🍬rovides.

3 Weave The Nightmare ও

Nightmare Heist

Modal spells (spells with multiple options when cast) are great because of their versatility, letting you use whatever mode is best for the given gamestate. Weave the Nightmare is card advantage, removal, and counter magic all in one card that doesn't cost a lot of mana to cast.

Since heist is such a strong mechanic, you'll often control a permanent you don't own, letting you choose two modes on Weave the Nightmare instead of just one. Every option for Weave the Nightmare is useful, so there's never a time Weave the Nightmare isn't useful.

2 ꦅ Impetuous Lootmonger

Heist For Treasure

Cards that can heist right away are fantastic, and Impetuous Lootmonger is one of the best ways to do so. You do need a card to discard to heist, but the trade-off is worth it for a card from your opponent's library that can also 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:get you a Treasure token when you cast it.

Impetuous Lootmonger has solid stats and abilities for a two-drop, and if you're in a deck that heists a lot, it'll even ramp you. It does a whole lot for little investment, making it the best creature from Alchemy: Thunder Junction.

1 Grave𝔉 Expectations

Expect To Heist

Heist is one of the strongest digital-only mechanics for Magic, and Grave Expectations is the easiest way to do so, only needing one black mana and nothing else. It is an instant, too, so you can wait to use it until you don't need mana up for interaction anymore.

While the heist ability is the main attraction, Grave Expectations can also be used as graveyard hate and lifegain, helping shut down any strategies relying on the graveyard and fighting back against aggro decks. If you're playing black, there's little reason to not run the maximum number of copies of Grave Expectations, heisting is just that good.