Alchemist's Greeting

Sorcery

Alchemist's Greeting deals 4 damage to target creature.

Madness {1}{R} (If you discard this card, you may cast it for its madness cost instead of putting it into your graveyard.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (40)

Lord_Grimm on The Madness of Miss Hannigan

2 years ago

v2, let's go! Here are some more thoughts...

I know this deck can be fast, however it is very low on ramp. Your avg CMC is over 4 (I know you cheat things out for less). If possible, find a way to include a few of (if not all) the following: Rakdos Signet, Talisman of Indulgence, Mind Stone, Prismatic Lens, Wayfarer's Bauble. Also, 37 lands feels low for a deck that has a high avg cmc that wants to be playing multiple spells a turn.

There are a few madness cards that feel under powered or narrow, like Bloodmad Vampire or Alchemist's Greeting... if you are ok with lowering the 'madness' count, possibly swap those to something more versatile or impactful.

Also, I see Anje Falkenrath listed in your creatures. Is the in your list twice? typically cards with the [CMDR] following them, do not appear in the creature list. If so, you may only have 99 cards.

Yesterday on Are reflexive triggers just triggered …

2 years ago

Just wanna double check I have this right.

I have a few copies of Fiery Encore on the stack.

When I discard an Alchemist's Greeting to Fiery Encore, I have the choice of whether to resolve the Madness cast trigger or the Fiery Encore's reflexive trigger first?

When I discard a Kozilek, Butcher of Truth to Fiery Encore, I have the option to shuffle the graveyard into my library before or after the Fiery Encore trigger resolves?

And, as with spells that have you cast another spell as part of the first spell's resolution (like Baral's Expertise), players can respond and add things to the stack during the resolution of Fiery Encore because it puts new things on the stack to resolve as itself is resolving?

This seems like a bit of a non-question I guess. Basically, is there anything that makes reflexive triggered abilities in spells or abilities notably different from regular triggered abilities?

onua1 on We're All Mad Here

3 years ago

Psychotic Episode , Psychotic Haze , Violent Eruption , Twins of Maurer Estate , Alchemist's Greeting

Lord_Grimm on The Madness of Miss Hannigan

4 years ago

Here are a few suggestions that might help: Bloodmad Vampire < Waste Not, Incorrigible Youths < Solemn Simulacrum, Twins of Maurer Estate < Azra Oddsmaker, Violent Eruption < Sweltering Suns, Fiery Temper < Rakdos Signet , Senseless Rage < Underworld Breach, Distemper of the Blood < Sol Ring, Call to the Netherworld < Animate Dead, Alchemist's Greeting < Blasphemous Act

Only other thoughts are ramp/fixing/wraths may be low.

Bluespeed on Anje Falkenrath

4 years ago

Cards I am thinking of removing

Skyfire Phoenix
Bloodhall Priest
Wildfire Devils
Alchemist's Greeting
Hate Mirage
Mire in Misery
Hedonist's Trove
Key to the City
Aeon Engine
Bloodthirsty Blade

Alkadron on PDH(RB) - You wanna block? Choose Wisely

5 years ago

Hello Dete! Thanks for all the suggestions!

When I was putting this together, I thought really hard about adding a bunch of really small evasive creatures, so I could get the oddsmaker trigger reliably. But her whole deal is gambling, and reliable isn't a gamble. I thought it would be way more fun if I put in creatures that were easy to block, and forced my opponent to make some very difficult choices.

So I use a lot of first strikers - they can get blocked, but a your creature's probably going to die and mine will probably live. Do you wanna sacrifice a creature to prevent me from drawing?

And I use a lot of trampling combat tricks. I know I have to choose my oddsmaker creature before blockers are declared, but I can cast Run Amok or Rush of Adrenaline or Brute Strength after blockers.

Imagine getting attacked by a 2/2 rats. You're going to block with your trinket mage, to a) kill the rats, and also b) prevent me from drawing two cards. Then I hit my rats with the Brute Strength -- now your mage still dies, my rats live, and I'm still drawing my two cards. Next time I attack with the rats, you're gonna have an agonizing decision to make - Do I have another combat trick in my hand? Am I bluffing? What do you do?

And that's the goal! That's what's fun for me while playing this deck. Gambling, and forcing my opponents to gamble with me. The deck would probably be better with reliable card draw, but I do alright for myself, and I have a ton of fun doing it. :)

As for removal; a deck like this can only dedicate a few spots to it--the overwhelming majority of cards need to be small aggressive creatures and combat tricks. The removal I've already got (Fiery Temper, Alchemist's Greeting, Ichor Slick, Dark Withering, Murderous Compulsion, Murder, Terminate, Diabolic Edict, Aftershock, and Psychotic Haze) are the very best cards I could fit into those slots, for this deck archetype, I think. For a more control-ey, less aggro deck, nothing's better than Crypt Rats, Pestilence, and Evincar's, for sure. But I think they'd slow me down and kill more of my creatures than my opponents', in this deck.

Galati on Help me help Tibalt

5 years ago

Why not make a Madness deck? Cards like Fiery Temper and Alchemist's Greeting cost very little when discarded.

Higin317 on Harvest Reckoner

5 years ago

I'd personally drop Lightning bolt's in favor of more Fiery Temper. The madness, with that much Wheeling, just makes sense.

I'd also like to suggest Alchemist's Greeting. possibly the other two Lightning bolts for this?