So this is something I'm testing right now. With the release of Secret Salvage and Yahenni's Expertise, this deck suddenly has both an easy way to go off with Hedron Alignment and a sweeper that lets you play an Alignment, a dig spell, or a Liliana for free. Green is key to the deck as well as it gives you access to Grapple with the Past and Vessel of Nascency, which churn through your deck for answers while also providing a way to get Hedron Alignment into the graveyard for Secret Salvage. There's also the usual Delirium wincon of just slamming down an Emrakul.
I'll wait on putting in a sideboard until more of the set is spoiled. Aether Revolt looks like it'll have a bigger impact on Standard than most small sets and IMHO it's kind of a fruitless exercise making a sideboard when we have no idea what the format will look like. Some potential options though would include Natural State, Pick the Brain, Flaying Tendrils, and Ceremonious Rejection.
Other than Secret Salvage you don't really seem to have ways to exile it or ways to get rid of copies in your hand already. Draw and discard effects might be useful such as Catalog and an alternate method to exile them would be Lost Legacy or even Transgress the Mind
One of my favorite cards with a Hedron Alignment control deck is Angelic Purge. Gets Alignment in the GY and Exile in addition to just being a good removal card.
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4 Blooming Marsh
3 Botanical Sanctum
2 Choked Estuary
2 Evolving Wilds
2 Forest
2 Hissing Quagmire
1 Island
5 Swamp
3 Sunken Hollow
1 Emrakul, the Promised End
2 Ishkanah, Grafwidow
Spells:
3 Anticipate
4 Fatal Push
4 Grapple with the Past
4 Hedron Alignment
4 Liliana, the Last Hope
4 Secret Salvage
2 Spell Shrivel
4 Vessel of Nascency
4 Yahenni's Expertise
I'll wait on putting in a sideboard until more of the set is spoiled. Aether Revolt looks like it'll have a bigger impact on Standard than most small sets and IMHO it's kind of a fruitless exercise making a sideboard when we have no idea what the format will look like. Some potential options though would include Natural State, Pick the Brain, Flaying Tendrils, and Ceremonious Rejection.
Thoughts?