Hey Guys! So this build is primary for the lulz when your opponent realizes you're playing possibly the worst Win-Con in standard. However I want the deck to be sneakily competitive as well. Tough line to walk, I know, so I'm testing a build with a few alternate win-cons like:
Crush of Tentacles and Remorseless Punishment
The new build will REPRESENT Hedron Alignment, but will focus on the above mentioned cards to win, while passively aligning Hedrons, just to keep up appearances. The new goal will be to represent a creatureless control deck, and then sideboard into some dangerous creatures in game 2 while taking OUT the Hedron Alignments, thoroughly confusing your opponent and making their sideboard tech very confusing.
TL;DR
You be all like:
And they be like:
And then you walk away all like:
Here are the edits that make up the new build!
ADDITIONS & SUBTRACTIONS
In:
+ 2 Crush of Tentacles,
+ 2 Dig Through Time,
+ 2 Fathom Feeder,
+ 1 Languish,
+ 2 Taigam's Scheming,
Out:
- 1 Ob Nixilis Reignited,
- 2 Negate,
- 3 Duress,
- 1 Despise,
- 2 Anticipate,
- 1 Transgress the Mind,
Sideboard pretty much totally reworked, so no list of swaps there.
CARD TYPE TOTALS
Removal/Board-Wipe totals:
Pure- 11, Conditional- 18
(13 including Blighted Fen, 16 including Remorseless Punishment, 18 including Crush of Tentacles)
Draw/Dig/Tutor totals:
Pure- 13, Conditional- 17
(15 including Fathom Feeder, 17 including Hedron Alignment)
Creature totals:
Pure- 2, Conditional- 4
(4 including Crush of Tentacles)
Win Conditions:
1. Crush of Tentacles
+
Remorseless Punishment
2. Hedron Alignment
GENERIC SIDEBOARD JUKE:
(11 cards swapped)
In:
+1 Clever Impersonator,
+1 Erebos's Titan,
+2 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet,
+1 Risen Executioner,
+1 Silumgar, the Drifting Death,
+1 Remorseless Punishment,
+1 Murderous Cut,
+1 Grasp of Darkness,
+2 Swamp,
Out:
-4 Hedron Alignment,
-2 Monastery Siege,
-1 Dig Through Time,
-2 Languish,
-1 Blighted Fen,
-1 Island,
This is A LOT to sideboard, so obviously not every match-up is going to do the full 11 card swap, this is just a list of the generic swaps that change the synergy from creatureless win-cons to creature win-cons. Most match ups will probably see a swap of anywhere between 5 and 7 cards.
Another S/B strategy (mainly for when you win game 1) would be to sideboard in these 11 in 2 phases of 5-6 cards each time for game 2 and 3, so as not to tip off your opponent of a juke by boarding in 11 cards immediately.
I hope this deck is fun and puts up a fight! Lemme know what you think.
DISCLAIMER
Yes, I know Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
Flip would be stellar in the main deck, but I'm poor and opened most of the expensive cards I'm running currently, so I'll be building without him. RIP Jace dreams.