Azorius Tempo Walkers (Alchemy Legal)

Alchemy
by DalaiOlai · Oct 18, 2026
Deck Strategy
Concept

A low-curve Azorius tempo deck that stacks cheap creatures and enchantments with Ajani, Caller of the Pride as a planeswalker payoff, using efficient interaction and card selection to protect an early board and win before bigger decks stabilize.

Synergies

Stormchaser's Talent creates Otter tokens and, once leveled, turns every spell you cast into another body, while Optimistic Scavenger converts each enchantment that enters (Stormchaser's Talent, Sheltered by Ghosts) into +1/+1 counters. Sheltered by Ghosts both removes a problem permanent and protects the creature it enchants, which is exactly where your Scavenger and other threats want to be. Ajani, Caller of the Pride turns wide boards into a fast clock by adding counters and Cat tokens, and can even give a creature flying for a lethal swing. Dazzling Denial, Parting Gust, Into the Flood Maw, and Exorcise let you resolve your engines on curve while answering opposing threats at instant speed. Stock Up digs for the piece you need.

Mulligan Strategy

Keep any hand with 2-3 lands and a turn-one play (Optimistic Scavenger, Stormchaser's Talent, Parting Gust, Into the Flood Maw). Keep hands that curve Talent into Scavenger into Sheltered by Ghosts. Mulligan hands with fewer than two lands, hands with no plays before turn three, and hands that are all conditional counterspells with no pressure.

Game Plan

Early: land Stormchaser's Talent or Optimistic Scavenger and start building a board; use Into the Flood Maw or Parting Gust to tempo out the first real threat. Mid: stick Sheltered by Ghosts to remove the biggest blocker or attacker while protecting your own creature, then deploy Ajani to convert tokens into a lethal swing. Hold Dazzling Denial and Exorcise for the turn your opponent taps out, and use Stock Up to dig for the piece you are missing. Late: level up Stormchaser's Talent so every spell you cast makes more Otters, then close with a wide, counter-pumped attack or an Ajani-fuelled alpha strike.

Weaknesses

The deck is light on lands and can stumble if it misses its third land drop; mass removal (Split Up, board wipes) punishes the go-wide Otter plan; opposing planeswalker decks with bigger, harder-to-answer walkers can outgrind you; and the deck has no built-in answer to resolved artifacts and enchantments beyond Sheltered by Ghosts, so cheap artifact/enchantment hate from the opponent hurts. Note also that the requested Alchemy: Reality Fracture cards (Change the Narrative, Prophet of the Planeswalker, Oko, Lord of the Fae) are not legal Arena cards, so this list reproduces the same cheap-planeswalker tempo gameplan with real, Alchemy-legal Azorius cards.

60 cards
Type Rarity Card Name Mana
Creatures (8) Uncommon Floodpits Drowner
Uncommon Optimistic Scavenger
Planeswalkers (3) Mythic Rare Ajani, Caller of the Pride
Instants (12) Common Dazzling Denial
Uncommon Into the Flood Maw
Uncommon Parting Gust
Sorceries (10) Uncommon Exorcise
Rare Split Up
Uncommon Stock Up
Enchantments (8) Uncommon Sheltered by Ghosts
Rare Stormchaser's Talent
Lands (19) Rare Floodfarm Verge
Basic Land Island
Basic Land Plains
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