Originally Posted by
zoroak
Normal price is 600 gems if you don't have a love shack to craft it. If you have a love shack, it only takes a wing (200 gems) and a horn (200 gems) and 5 lumen essences to craft, so whilst the wing and horn are very rare drops from adventures, you can get an alicorn for 400 gems if you're impatient.
I think the low energy alicorns (regenerate daily) that you can get as prizes from baron's tent are better deals and they were on sale recently during Black Friday for 125 or 150 gems, sorry can't remember exact price.