This is a competitive Alesha, Who Smiles at Death Edh deck that wins through several combos and survives long enough to enable them through stax effects from cards such as Thalia, Guardian of Thraben and Sphere of Resistance as well as mana denial provided by Blood Moon, Magus of the Moon, Contamination and Static Orb - which I find really pisses people off...
There are two game winning combos. First I will go over a form of the classic "Bomberman" routine involving Auriok Salvagers and Lion's Eye Diamond. With any egg in your graveyard (Chromatic Star, Chromatic Sphere, Shadowblood Egg or either spellbomb) or in hand since Lion's Eye Diamond will force you to discard it, you will be able to make infinite mana and draw your entire deck. This is achieved through playing Lion's Eye Diamond with Salvagers on the battlefield and sacrificing the shiny Diamond. Auriok Salvagers' ability will buy back that damn Diamond an arbitrary amount of times, netting you trillions of mana in all of your colors. After a ridiculous amount of mana is achieved, the ability of Salvagers is turned to the "egg" in the graveyard, to buy back, sacrifice and draw cards until you have found Walking Ballista, Blind Obedience, Cut or all three. (Cut has the added benefit of being used early in the game to kill a stupid creature with the Cut part and later used as a combo finisher through "Aftermath" Ribbons). Blind Obedience is a kill through extorting your egg and rebuying it from the graveyard, rinse and repeat. Of course if the egg in the graveyard happens to be Pyrite Spellbomb, the true "Bomberman" is assembled since it alone can kill the table through its ever-burning egg-fire.
The other major combo is Village Bell-Ringer + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker. The easiest way to make this crap happen is using Buried Alive to dump Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Village Bell-Ringer and Karmic Guide into the yard and reanimate Karmic Guide using any of the three reanimation spells or activating Alesha's ability when she attacks. Karmic Guide will enter the battlefield, trigger and return Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker who will then tap to make a copy of Guide. The copy of Guide will return Village Bell-Ringer to the battlefield, trigger - untapping all of your creatures, most notably cheaty Kiki-Jiki, who will then tap to create a copy of Bell-Ringer --- then madness ensues as 13.3 billion hasty Bell-Ringing idiots enter existence.
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker can also combo off with that weird looking cat thingie that was just banned in Standard.
Secondary combos: These are not used often but sometimes beautifully fall into place.
Sun Titan trigger with Fiend Hunter in the grave with Goblin Bombardment on the battlefield, causing your opponents to die a very strange and horrible death as many Fiend Hunters are launched with great velocity toward their bodies. The same combo works with Phyrexian Altar on the battlefield if you have Walking Ballista in hand or on the battlefield - or Cut in hand or in the graveyard. I had Spikeshot Elder in the deck for a while to give another out for this combo but came to the conclusion that it is probably a bit too redundant (even though I love me some Spikeshot Elder and the image of it shooting its nasty little spikes off of its gross back in my opponents chest cavities. Have you ever taken notice of Spikeshot Elder's tail? Look at his tail, it is funny looking - freaking adorable).
Leonin Relic-Warder in the graveyard being reanimated with either Animate Dead or Dance of the Dead with Goblin Bombardment on the battlefield. With Phyrexian Altar this works the same as the Sun Titan + Fiend Hunter combo because the same additional cards are needed for a kill.
Some people may be thinking, "man, those eggs are some sucky cards," but they are actually quite fine in this deck, especially the three "mana-eggs," due to the Blood Moon effects and Contamination putting restraints on your lands - they can get you out of a mana jam while they replace themselves with a card. I love eggs.
Of course this deck could be marginally improved with cards like Imperial Seal, Grim Tutor and all of that crazy expensive crap that I simply do not own. I had to sell a kidney to get the three original dual-lands for this deck, and these are the cheapest ones! I seriously did not sell any valued organ, I actually already owned them - thank God. A Mox Diamond would be nice. I play physical MtG in the real, physical world so I would be remiss to add these pricey cards to the list since I do not own them. I would like to own them. I love you all and I accept donations :). Thanks for reading! Any input or suggestions are appreciated.
EDIT
I've decided to remove a few cards that facilitate a few secondary combos from the deck. These cards are not bad by any means, I just feel it is the deck's objective to create a scenario where one of the two major combos can come together. This realization has caused me to become irritated when I draw Goblin Bombardment, Fiend Hunter or Sun Titan.
Leonin Relic-Warder stays in since he can be tutored by either recruiter and is a must-answer creature against certain decks since he exiles a la Oblivion Ring. So the infinite mana combo with Phyrexian Altar and Animate Dead or Dance of the Dead is still a possibility.
