Alchemist's Refuge

Land

{1}: Add {C}

{G}{U}, {T}: Until end of turn, you may cast nonland cards as though they had flash.

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
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (47)

Max_Hammer on Kadena "Surprise tool for later" …

2 months ago

For those that are curious on the changes I made to the deck

What I'm taking out: Show

• Ghastly Conscription

• Hex

• Leadership Vacuum

• Rayami, First of the Fallen

• Grismold, the Dreadsower

• Apex Altisaur

• Sudden Substitution

• Echoing Truth

• Thought Sponge

• Thespian's Stage

• Hooded Hydra

• Great Oak Guardian

• Scaretiller

• Bounty of the Luxa

• Temple of the False God

• Grim Haruspex

• Sagu Mauler

• Voice of Many

• Volrath, the Shapestealer

• Thelonite Hermit

• Mire in Misery

• Chromeshell Crab

• Pendant of Prosperity

• Tezzeret's Gambit

• Swamp

• 2x Forest

What I'm putting in to replace it: Show

• Vraska, Golgari Queen

• Verdant Rebirth

• Saw it Coming

• Poison the Cup

• Ravenform

• Green Slime

• Sultai Emissary

• Write into Being

• Ruthless Ripper

• Unwind

• Rewind

• Silumgar Assassin

• Voidmage Apprentice

• Zoetic Cavern

• Reckoner's Bargain

• Deadly Dispute

• Village Rites

• Retrieve

• Urborg Repossession

• Macabre Waltz

• Regrowth

• Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip

• Muldrotha, the Gravetide

• Watcher for Tomorrow

• Riptide Laboratory

• Alchemist's Refuge

• Hagra Mauling  ^Flip

I also plan on changing out some other lands, but above are the utility lands only.

DemonDragonJ on Commander Masters Previews and Speculation

2 months ago

Seizan, Perverter of Truth and Powerstone Minefield have never been reprinted, so I would like to see them, in this set.

The utility lands from Innistrad, especially Alchemist's Refuge, should all be reprinted, as should be the ten utility lands from the original Ravnica block, such as Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion or Orzhova, the Church of Deals.

Dead_Blue_ on Colossal Conscription

5 months ago

Alchemist's Refuge

Tur on Hidden Power - Crop Rotation

5 months ago

Hello everyone! This will be a trial forum post for a "Commander - Hidden Power" series. My goal is to show relatively inexpensive cards which are often overlooked by commander players in semi-competitive and casual play. (This post is not designed for competitive play.) If you enjoy the topic, please provide positive feedback and I will consider creating similar posts.

The powerful card I plan on discussing here is Crop Rotation.

This card under five dollars and is one of the most powerful mono-green tutors. Period. Yes, I'm counting all mono-green tutors. This includes: Worldly Tutor, Finale of Devastation, Green Sun's Zenith, Survival of the Fittest, Chord of Calling, Natural Order, Tooth and Nail, Sylvan Tutor, Time of Need, Scapeshift, Hour of Promise, Tempt with Discovery, Reshape the Earth, Boundless Realms, Traverse the Outlands, Rampant Growth, Harrow, Cultivate, Harvest Season, Explosive Vegetation, etc.

It's one color, one mana, instant, searches for any land, you can sacrifice a tapped land, and puts the land onto the battlefield untapped (unless otherwise specified).

Although, Crop Rotation is often overlooked by players because of the very expensive cards it can search and not being "flashy" enough. Yes, Crop Rotation is ideal with any of the following cards: Gaea's Cradle, Mishra's Workshop, The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale, Serra's Sanctum, Bazaar of Baghdad, and Diamond Valley. However, suppose we don't have a one thousand dollar mana base and cannot play the land cards above. Is Crop Rotation worthless? No. It is still one of the best mono-green tutors. There are so many utility and theme lands which are excellent targets. Ramp lands and color-fixing are also viable options. Here are a few categorized ideas:

Utility Lands:

• Command Beacon / Sanctum of Eternity
• Reliquary Tower
• Scavenger Grounds / Bojuka Bog (B)
• Field of the Dead
• Rogue's Passage / Access Tunnel / Shizo, Death's Storehouse (B)
• War Room / Bonders' Enclave / Castle Locthwain (B)
• Emeria, The Sky Ruin (W) / Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle (R)
• Mystic Sanctuary (U) / Witch's Cottage (B)
• Hall of the Bandit Lord / Flamekin Village (R) / Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld (R) / Slayers' Stronghold (WR)
• Hall of Heliod's Generosity (W) / Academy Ruins (U) / Volrath's Stronghold (B)
• Strip Mine / Wasteland / Dust Bowl / Ghost Quarter
• Maze of Ith / Mystifying Maze / Labyrinth of Skophos / Kor Haven (W) / Glacial Chasm
• High Market / Miren, the Moaning Well / Phyrexian Tower (B)
• Witch's Clinic / Vault of the Archangel (WB)
• Homeward Path
• Cavern of Souls / Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• Thespian's Stage / Vesuva
• Winding Canyons / Emergence Zone / Alchemist's Refuge (UG)
• Mikokoro, Center of the Sea / Geier Reach Sanitarium
• Castle Ardenvale (W) / Kher Keep (R)
• Castle Vantress (U) / Memorial to Genius (U) / Cephalid Coliseum (U)
• Inventors' Fair

Theme Lands:

• Karn's Bastion
• Dark Depths
• Urza's Power Plant / Urza's Mine / Urza's Tower
• Sunscorched Desert
• Windbrisk Heights (W)
• Idyllic Grange (W)
• Ghost Town / Oboro, Palace in the Clouds (U)
• Riptide Laboratory (U)
• Minamo, School at Water's Edge (U)
• Tomb Fortress (B)
• Den of the Bugbear (R)
• Goblin Burrows (R)
• Castle Embereth (R)
• Wirewood Lodge (G)
• Castle Garenbrig (G)
• Oran-Rief, the Vastwood (G) / Gavony Township (WG)
• Mosswort Bridge (G)
• Kessig Wolf Run (RG)
• Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion (WR)
• Grim Backwoods (BG)

Ramp Lands:

• Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• Urza's Saga
• Cabal Coffers (B) / Cabal Stronghold (B) / Crypt of Agadeem (B) / Lake of the Dead (B)
• Temple of the False God / Ancient Tomb
• Myriad Landscape
• Blighted Woodland (G) / Krosan Verge (WG)
• Treasure Vault

Color-Fixing Lands:

• Command Tower / Path of Ancestry / Reflecting Pool
• City of Brass / Mana Confluence / Forbidden Orchard
• The World Tree (WUBRG)
• Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

There are many more unlisted cards in each category which could fit your specific deck.

Some of the cards listed above have some pretty cool synergies with Crop Rotation here are a few:Urza's Saga, you can let the saga get to chapter III, then with the ability on the stack sacrifice it to Crop Rotation to get both the artifact and land. Field of the Dead is ideal in every two or three color commander deck with a sufficient mana base (in fact some of my win conditions are given by Field of the Dead). You can also use Field of the Dead as a combat trick. Scavenger Grounds and Bojuka Bog are fantastic for graveyard combo disruption. Maze of Ith and Glacial Chasm will hurt your lands, but sometimes it is needed to stay alive.

Simply having the ability to greatly effect the board state using a one-mana instant speed spell is impressive: life gain, damage prevention, removing steal effects, getting around blockers, denying counterspells, combo stoppers, unlimited hand size, sacrifice engines, haste, recursion, ramp, creating token blockers. The list goes on-and-on-and-on. If fact, if you're playing 3-4 of the lands listed above you should really consider Crop Rotation in the ninety-nine.

All in all, I'm always surprised the number of deck lists which do not play Crop Rotation. This is a fantastic card and one of the best mono-green tutors. It has so much hidden power. Ask yourself if there is a nonbasic land which you are playing (or would play) that would do well with Crop Rotation.

eliakimras on Enchantments are "friendly"

6 months ago

Since you're running Rule of Law, you might want to bring back Leyline of Anticipation to not be set back so far behind by your own stax cards. Kami of Transience looks like an easy cut (it is not an enchantment and grows slowly). Alchemist's Refuge is a second copy of Leyline's effect that is worth running.

GorramScoundrel on All My X’s are in the Hive Nexus

7 months ago

Thanks, there’s some really great suggestions! I haven’t even seen Open Into Wonder!! Aaagghh!! I am constantly thinking about adding Seedborn Muse and Alchemist's Refuge, one day I just might.

I’m not sure if I want to lean into the infinite combo, honestly I keep thinking of removing it just because the deck is a lot of fun without it (and my playgroup doesn’t have too many of them) but I really appreciate all the suggestions, and hopefully if I don’t use all those combos soneone else will.

unstable_anomaly on All My X’s are in the Hive Nexus

7 months ago

With Nyxbloom Ancient or Mana Reflection in play, your commander goes infinite with Umbral Mantle and Sword of the Paruns. Allows you to make infinite {C} and cast any Xspell an infinite amount of times. With both in play you can accomplish the same thing with Staff of Domination. BloomTender / Selvala, Heart of the Wilds can both substitute your commander for the above listed combos as well as just being great cards in the deck.

Pemmin's Aura doesn't go infinite, but offers a cheap way to uptap and protect your commander.

Seedborn Muse and Alchemist's Refuge would also be really good here.

You may also like Open Into Wonder / Rogue's Passage / Plaza of Heroes / Spellskite / Thassa's Intervention.

8netherwind8 on Stone Cold Friendship

8 months ago

Thanks Grind - that was the idea with Alchemist's Refuge in fact. And for the Hug theme, I might do Tidal Barracuda =D