Aloe Alchemist
Creature — Plant Warlock
Trample
When this card becomes plotted, target creature gets +3/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.
Plot 
(You may pay and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #16516
Aloe Alchemist turns every Desert you control into a life buffer and a card when it enters — that kind of incremental advantage compounds fast in the right shell. The two-mana entry point makes it a no-brainer inclusion in Kirri, Talented Sprout decks that already want to flood the board with land-adjacent permanents.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kirri, Talented Sprout
Kirri, Talented Sprout triggers on the same land-play loop that Aloe Alchemist rewards, meaning each Desert you land draws you a card from Kirri and gains you life from Alchemist simultaneously — the two effects stack into a self-sustaining engine that stabilizes your life total while you dig toward your win condition.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Aloe Alchemist is a role-player in Desert-themed or landfall-adjacent decks, not a generically powerful card — it earns its slot by converting a synergy tax you're already paying into card advantage. Competitive constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer have no real use for it; the life gain is incidental and the card draw requires too much infrastructure to assemble. Standard is the one non-Commander format where Desert synergies have enough critical mass to make it worth a look, but even there it's a fringe consideration. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a two-mana creature with conditional upside.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Aloe Alchemist is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. It's unlikely to appreciate unless Desert synergies receive a major push, so treat it as a free include rather than a speculative pickup.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.