The 10 best alchemy cards in Magic: The Gathering, ranked

Love it or hate it, Alchemy fundamentally expanded Magic’s mechanical lexicon. It proved a digital platform that could just as easily test ideas physically impossible on cardboard as much as it simulated paper play. Drafting the Power Nine from thin air, altering card stats permanently across zones, and directly patching first-player win-rate disparities horrified MTG purists, yet it also gave digital players a hyper-evolving metagame that embraced software's speed.