Heliod Finalized Decklist by LooseMoose

Format: Commander

Commander: Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

Heliod, the Radiant Dawn commands an explosive Azorius draw-storm strategy that weaponizes symmetrical card draw into overwhelming mana advantages. The deck's central game plan focuses on deploying early artifact ramp, casting Heliod, and quickly paying three mana and two life to transform him into Heliod, the Warped Eclipse. Once flipped, Heliod grants all spells flash and reduces their generic mana costs by one for every card opponents have drawn that turn. By utilizing cheap group-draw spells like Vision Skeins or permanents like Howling Mine, the deck accumulates massive double-digit mana discounts during opponent turns or on its own combo turn. These discounts enable casting colossal X-draw spells like Prosperity, Blue Sun's Zenith, and Finale of Revelation for only their colored pips. The resulting card influx quickly closes out the table through Psychosis Crawler life drain, a double-cast of Approach of the Second Sun, or continuous bouncing with Hullbreaker Horror, while countermagic and defensive enchantments protect the combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commit // Memory
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Finale of Glory
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
  • 1 Krang, the All-Powerful
  • 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
  • 1 Martial Coup
  • 1 Mass Manipulation
  • 1 Mathemagics
  • 1 Minds Aglow
  • 1 Minn, Wily Illusionist
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nadir Kraken
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Prosperity
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Silver Shroud Costume
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunfall
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Temple Bell
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tyrite Sanctum
  • 1 Vision Skeins
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Well of Ideas
  • 1 White Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Words of Wisdom