Say what you will about Alchemy as a format (I've given my thoughts here), a lot of the digital-only designs are very cool.

Take Perilous Iteration.

Perilous Iteration is cut from the same cloth as the excellent Expressive Iteration; it's a two color, two mana, draw-two, but has some hoops to jump through. In this case, you must cast the cards in one turn or discard them, and it gets a card that costs 2 or less and a card that costs 3 or more.

Hmm... I wonder how we could abuse this...

Time Stamps:

02:20 - Match 1

23:58 - Match 2

41:45 - Match 3

Iter8ing Phoenix | Historic | Jim Davis

• Companion (1)
• 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring

• Creatures (12)
• 4 Arclight Phoenix
• 4 Dragon's Rage Channeler
• 4 Ledger Shredder

• Instants (14)
• 2 Lightning Axe
• 4 Consider
• 4 Opt
• 4 Unholy Heat

• Sorceries (12)
• 4 Expressive Iteration
• 4 Faithless Looting
• 4 Perilous Iteration

• Lands (22)
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Hall of Storm Giants
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 3 Botanical Sanctum
• 4 Breeding Pool
• 4 Spirebluff Canal
• 4 Steam Vents
• 4 Stomping Ground

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
• 3 Spell Pierce
• 1 Abrade
• 2 Ancient Grudge
• 1 Abrade
• 2 Cindervines
• 2 Unlicensed Hearse
• 1 Brotherhood's End
• 2 Crackling Drake

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This is the best Arclight Phoenix deck we've seen in a long time.

Perilous Iteration is obviously a very solid card draw spell, but when you build your deck in a way where the only card that costs more than two mana is Arclight Phoenix, you've built your own cantrip Entomb. The biggest issue Arclight Phoenix decks usually have is finding multiple Phoenixes and Perilous Iteration does it with ease. And even better is that, unlike Expressive Iteration, you can cast it on turn two!

This deck is a blast and another reason I adore the Historic format.