[DECK] Hedron Alignment Combo

[Finn]

Hedron Alignment
Enchantment
2U
Hexproof

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may reveal your hand. If you do, you win the game if you own a card named Hedron Alignment in exile, in your hand, in your graveyard, and on the battlefield.

1U: Scry 1.

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4 Hedron Alignment
4 Intuition
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Force of Will
4 Gitaxian Probe
3 Preordain
2 Flash of Insight

4 Lim-Dul's Vault

2 Faerie Macabre
1 Coffin Purge
2 Murderous Cut

1 Relic of Progenitus

4 Lotus Petal
3 Underground Sea
4 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Swamp
4 Island


It's a start.
This is the fun part, folks - coming up with the deck that makes this work or failing to do so. Plenty of potential combos have come and gone for this format over the years. Let's see if we can't get this one to market. There are only the four copies of Hedron Alignment that only function for the combo itself. Every other nonland card is devoted to making the combo work. Only storm decks can currently boast that kind of construction.

Ahh, Flash of Insight should be good.

So, the plan is to cast Hedron Alignment and then Intuition for the other three. At that point you should have a variety of ways to exile one for the win right there on your upkeep. With Lim-Dul's Vault you can safely cast Intuition before you have an Alignment because you can rifle through your deck to find the fourth.

Tasigur's Cruelty is probably a bad choice because the critical moment when you have to exile stuff is going to be on your upkeep in most cases. (Cruelty is a sorcery)
Shrouded Lore is what you use if you had to exile Hedron Alignment to Force of Will before casting Intuition. I'm not sure it will be worth the effort, and I think this is a crappy method. Entomb is fine with this card, but I think Lim-Dul's Vault simply does a better job.

[Mr. Safety]

A few cards came to mind:

Infernal Tutor
Entomb
Lotus Petal


Its cool to see a new potential combo deck.

EDIT: jeez, does Doomsday work here? Complicated AF but maybe?

[kirkusjones]

Faerie Macabre in the place of Cruelty? It doesn't protect the combo in the same way Cruelty does, but it has decent utility and is harder to counter.

[Finn]

Faerie Macabre in the place of Cruelty? It doesn't protect the combo in the same way Cruelty does, but it has decent utility and is harder to counter.

Yup, that's good. I had already changed it to Coffin Purge (for Intuition interaction), but this is excellent. Thanks.

Remaining is a way to handle the scenario in which you are holding three copies of Alignment and the more likely case where you want to exile one for Force of Will. I have a terrible idea for both of these: Recall

[jrsthethird]

Graveyard is easily the hardest zone to get to stick. Luckily we dodge the incidental hate of DRS, but nearly every deck runs some sort of graveyard disruption. Cage is irrelevant, but Relics/Nihils/Crypts/RiPs can break us if they catch us with 2 in the bin.

It's possible to play a slower, more control style, with Foil, Misdirection, TFK, and LOTV as additional enablers that work once you get the copies in hand.

[kirkusjones]

I have pretty much everything to build this. I may have to proxy up the rest and play a few test games. I haven't played legacy in a few years, but this deck idea definitely has me interested. Thanks gentlemen!

[death]

A deck like this without Doomsday needs a way to recover from a discarded hedron(s), it's a wrench in the plan that turns off the Intuition route.