From Commander players to collectors, from Standard and Modern to Pioneer, Historic, and beyond, we're working to create more products built for how every group likes to play and engage with Magic.Īlchemy is built for our digital-first players, who consume content more quickly but also want a metagame that stays fresh and evolves.

This is the same pattern we see across Magic play, and one of the main ways Magic has grown over the last several years is by embracing the many different ways that players love to play the game. One of the key things we've learned from watching all of this play is that digital-first Magic players engage with the game slightly differently than tabletop players do. For the last several years, players have been coming to MTG Arena for fast, fun digital Magic, and the play rate has been intense-each day, we see millions of matches of Magic on MTG Arena. Introducing a new format like this is a big change, and it's one we've been thinking and working on for some time now. We'll spell out everything you need to know about the new format below, and you can check out this morning's Weekly MTG (December 2) with Dave Humpherys and Ian Adams, two designers who worked on creating these new cards, for even more info. It uses the card pool of Standard as a base, but it extends that by adding rebalanced cards and digital-only cards.Īlchemy is launching with eleven rebalanced cards from the current Standard and the Alchemy: Innistrad supplemental set, which adds around 60 totally new cards with mechanics that could only work well in digital Magic. AlchemyĪlchemy is a new digital-only format that will be debuting in MTG Arena with our release on December 9. There's a lot to go over here, so let's dive right in.

This December, MTG Arena will launch a new digital-first format called Alchemy, a new play blade, our first Draft Arena Open, and more.

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