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Galvanic Alchemist

Multiverse ID: 240211

Galvanic Alchemist

Comments (13)

RAV0004
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0) (5 votes)
Crab Umbra on a stick. More useful to johnny combo players outside of block than to actively good soulbonding creatures in block.
Trygon_Predator
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Should have been a Horseshoe Crab Shaman.
TherealphatMatt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
the Johnny in me loves this card.
http404error
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Behold, the shenanigans will flow from this card.
0pp0
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Horseshoe Crab on a Horned Turtle :3
gatorjunkie
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Pair it with Beguiler of Wills and watch your opponent cry.
alphagprime
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Anyone else play WoW? Looks like she is wearing Paladin Tier 2.
MindAblaze
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ouch.
Everlastingwords
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Infinite Combo with Axebane Guardian as long as you have a total of 4 defenders or more. May sound a bit of a all-in combo at first, but combined with guild mages that's an infinite repetition of an effect using mana of any type and each axebane will provide you quite a bit of mana to play with until you reach that critical mass.

I'm currently trying to make a GWU mill deck using this, with Trostani, Selesnya's Voice and Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage to help keep my life total up and set up populates when profitable (including for a potential infinite health combo). Cackling Counterpart also makes an appearance with several potential combos (Including simply being used to provide another defender/axebane guardian/ Galvanic Alchemist.

Having two Galvanic Alchemists in your deck (or cackling counterparting one) lets you set up an infinite combo between the Axebane Guardian, galvanic alch, and a doorkeeper to instantly mill anyone out.

Rest in Peace is a necessary sideboard for my combo incase the enemy has a worldspine wurm or some other method of keeping their deck permanently in motion.

Standard legal btw.



Raynor1111
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@The Infinite Mana comment... Add Entreat With Angels for infinite. Do I win yet?
Ataraxiom
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ Everlastingwords, Shimmervoid

Love the idea, I've been using a similar build in my own deck for awhile now. Manaramp into your defenders, get the Guardian and Alchemist out together, and use all those flashback spells to locate Increasing Confusion to mill for infinite cards. If you can't pull that off, you can always get a second Alchemist soulbonded to a Doorkeeper and mill for infinite that way too. It runs surprisingly consistently because of all the deck-digging the spells do.

Creatures

Axebane Guardian X4
Galvanic Alchemist X4
Fog Bank X4
Gatecreeper Vine X4
Doorkeeper X4
Arbor Elf X4
Elvish Mystic X4

Other Spells

Tracker's Instincts X4
Forbidden Alchemy X4
Increasing Ambition X3
Increasing Confusion X1

Land
Forest X9
Island X3
Hinterland Harbor X4
Breeding Pool X4