Hedron

Hedron
[[File:{{#setmainimage:Hedron-landscape.jpg}}|250px]] Hedron Landscape
Characteristics
Origin	Zendikar
Creator	Nahiri
Status	Unknown

Hedrons are ancient stone monoliths found throughout the plane of Zendikar. When properly aligned, hedrons become powerful tools of binding.

History

Origins

It was revealed that Nahiri constructed the hedrons during a period of 40 years, forming a massive network connected by leylines that created a planewide prison for the Eldrazi. Ugin guided Nahiri in shaping the surfaces of the hedrons. The carved stone devices were created to both condense mana and strengthen the containment spell which held the Eldrazi in their prison, but ultimately had very undesirable effects on the plane. They hold an incredible amount of power inside, but it takes a powerful mind to open them. The runes featured on the Dragon Scroll, known to be written in draconic language, are carved on a hedron inside of the Eye of Ugin.

Return of the Eldrazi

Since the Rise of the Eldrazi, the dead stones began forming bizarre floating superstructures in the sky. Some hedrons had been transformed, taking angles and shapes unique to that of their first construction.

When Ulamog threatened to destroy the plane, the Planeswalkers responded. While Gideon Jura's troops and Kiora's forces held the city against the assault, Nissa Revane used elemental power to raise sunken hedrons from the ground and position them into a ring around the Eldrazi titan. Jace Beleren activated the hedrons, thus trapping Ulamog. Following the events, the network was then undone by Ob Nixilis.

Phyrexian Invasion

Zendikar was a target in New Phyrexia's Invasion of the Multiverse. The now-compleated planeswalker Nahiri arrived at the Emeria Skyclave and began realigning the plane's hedrons to facilitate Realmbreaker's incursion into the plane. As she worked to transform the Skyclave once more into a weapon of war, the Roil rose to meet her and was defeated, until the landscape below shifted to the gray uniformity of bed-rock for miles. As Phyrexians poured into Zendikar, Seagate was defeated once more.

Secondary uses

The alliance of hedron creatures like Hedron Crawler, Hedron Scrabbler and Runed Servitor can be assumed as guardians of the hedron network.

Chips broken from hedrons would be used as Pathway Stones in Tazeem, directional tools that always led to the center of hedron fields. This regionally anomalous property may be attributed to Emeria, the Sky Ruin, a unique collection of hedrons and stone rubble floating over areas of Tazeem. Additionally, the Onduan settlement of Kabira innocently mimicked nearby hedron runes and shapes in architecture, an act which scholars of Kabira Conservatory believe endangers residents.

When the planeswalker Ob Nixilis was cursed with a demonic form by the Chain Veil, he traveled to Zendikar to purge the curse. Considering him a threat to the plane, Nahiri implanted a small hedron in his forehead, removing his ability to planeswalk along with his wings. When Jace Beleren sought a cure for Garruk's curse, also from the Chain Veil, he removed the hedron from Nixilis' head and implanted it in Garruk's chest, preventing him from transforming into a demon as well.

Using the shard of a shattered hedron, Sarkhan was able to protect Ugin after his fateful battle with Nicol Bolas.

Gallery

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  Hedron concept exploration by Aleksi Briclot.

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  The suppression hedron implanted in Ob Nixilis and Garruk

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  The suppression hedron in Magic 2015 - Duels of the Planeswalkers

In-game references

Represented in:

• Aligned Hedron Network
• Dreamstone Hedron
• Hedron Archive
• Hedron Matrix

Associated cards:

• Hedron Alignment
• Hedron Blade
• Hedron Crab
• Hedron Crawler
• Hedron Detonator
• Hedron-Field Purists
• Hedron Rover
• Hedron Scrabbler
• Zada, Hedron Grinder
• Zada, Hedron Grinder

Depicted in:

• Keening Stone
• Perilous Vault

Referred to:

• Lithomantic Barrage