Alchemy: Aetherdrift
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| Symbol description | A25 | ||||
| Release date | March 4, 2025 | ||||
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Amonkhet Avishkar Muraganda | ||||
| Set size | 30 | ||||
| Expansion code | A25[1], Y25 (MTG Arena), YDFT (Scryfall)[2] | ||||
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Alchemy: Aetherdrift is a Magic: The Gathering Arena-exclusive card set in the Alchemy series that was released on March 4, 2024.[3]
Description
Alchemy: Aetherdrift is a digital only release adjacent to the release of Aetherdrift. There are thirty new designed-for-digital cards included in the set (10 uncommons, 15 rares, 5 mythic rares).[4] The cards are set across the planes of Avishkar, Amonkhet, and Muraganda.
Mechanics
The digital-only mechanics Conjure, Double team, Draft, Intensity, Not the starting player, Perpetually, Seek, and Spellbook are reused. From the main set, Exhaust, Max speed, Start your engines!, and Saddle are reused.
Jump-start, Improvise, Overload, and Unearth make cameo appearances.
Counters
Alchemy: Aetherdrift introduces the Wreck counter on Spectacle of Destruction.
List of exclusive digital-only cards
- White
- Blue
- Black
- Red
- Green
- Multicolor
- Arius, Flyby Trawler
- Highway Reaver
- Ornate Imitations
- Quickbeast Amulet
- Sala, Deck Boss
- Support Skyforge
- Tsagan, Raider Warlord
- Wish Good Luck
- Colorless
List of cards that can be conjured
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) Hangarback Assembler conjures Hangarback Walker to the battlefield. - (
) Trackhand Trainer conjures Training Grounds to the battlefield. - (
) Kari Zev, Crew of Two conjures Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer to the battlefield, tapped and attacking. - () Motivated Muralist conjures Inspiring Statuary to your hand.
- () Smog Smasher conjures duplicates of creatures that deal combat damage to your opponent into exile.
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) Great Fang Chroniclers conjures Muraganda Petroglyphs to the battlefield. - () Mitotic Ultimus conjures Mitotic Slime to the battlefield.
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) Ornate Imitations conjures creatures of mana value between 1 and X (you choose) to the battlefield.
List of cards in Spellbooks
There are two cards with spellbooks in the Alchemy: Aetherdrift set that allow you to draft additional cards during play.[5]
Masterpiece Vault
Each card conjured from Masterpiece Vault's spellbook has the Kaladesh Inventions showcase frame.
Support Skyforge
Tokens
As a digital product, Alchemy: Aetherdrift does not contain any tokens but several cards in the set generate tokens, so a list is provided below for reference.
1/1 Servo artifact creature for Support Skyforge.- 1/1 Thopter artifact creature with flying for Deviant Skytech.
- 3/2 Vehicle artifact with crew 1 for Wish Good Luck.
- Food artifact for Wish Good Luck.
- Treasure artifact for Wish Good Luck.
- 1/1 Ooze creature for the conjured Mitotic Slime.
- 2/2 Ooze creature with “When this token dies, create two 1/1 green Ooze creature tokens.” for the conjured Mitotic Slime.
Trivia
- Masterpiece Vault is named, in part, after the Masterpiece Series.
- Sala, Deck Boss is a visual reference to Davy Jones from the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise.
Into the Future event
The Into the Future event for Alchemy: Aetherdrift was held on Magic: The Gathering Arena between March 4 and 6, 2025[6][7]. It featured five phantom preconstructed decks intended to highlight how new cards could be used in the Alchemy format.
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| Fast, Frentic, Furious | – | – | B | R | – |
| Ready for Takeoff | W | U | – | – | – |
| Shiver Me Timbers | – | U | – | R | – |
| Totally Exhausted | – | U | – | R | G |
| We Ride At Dawn | W | – | – | – | G |
References
- ↑ Expansion symbol
- ↑ Scryfall set list
- ↑ Clayton Kroh, Jubilee Finnegan (February 24, 2024). "MTG Arena Announcements – February 24, 2024". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Amy the Amazonian (February 28, 2025). "Alchemy: Aetherdrift - Set Preview | Race to 30 New Cards with Amazonian (Video)". Magic: The Gathering Arena. YouTube.
- ↑ Clayton Kroh (March 3, 2025). "Alchemy: Aetherdrift Spellbooks". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ PlayingMTG (March 5, 2025). "Into the Future Decks & Midweek Magic Event Guide (website)". PlayingMTG. Retrieved on March 25, 2025.
- ↑ Clayton Kroh & Jubilee Finnegan (March 3, 2025). "MTG Arena Announcements – March 3, 2025 (website)". Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved on MArch 27, 2025.