Heliod, the Radiant Dawn

Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

When Heliod, the Radiant Dawn enters the battlefield, return target enchantment card that isn't a God from your graveyard to your hand.

{3}{BP}: Transform Heliod, the Radiant Dawn. Activate this ability only as a sorcery. ({BP} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Brawl	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (9)

Crow_Umbra on Communism Was a Red Herring

3 months ago

No prob, happy to help! I enjoy your build style and your discussion contributions around the site when I see them.

If you're in need of Enchantment or general recursion, I'd recommend adding Hall of Heliod's Generosity. I've found that I don't encounter much land removal in my metas beyond Generous Gift/Beast Within, so utility lands get a bit more mileage. I'd also recommend checking out Noxious Revival, as it can be cast for a measly 2 life, and has the added flexibility of being graveyard or top-of-deck tutor hate.

There's also Auramancer, Monk Idealist, and Heliod, the Radiant Dawn  ^Flip (to name a few enchantment specific recursion effects)

Lol I was so focused on the triple white pips on Hour of Reckoning, that I totally missed the Convoke. If you'd want another board wipe, I'd recommend Promise of Loyalty, since it can get around indestructible.

Not sure if you'd be interested, but my best friend recently put together a Brennard deck if you'd want to check it out. He's no longer active on Tapped Out, so this would direct you to his Moxfield list. For additional context, my friend is someone that typically plays aristocrats, and Jund-adjacent strats

obi_ivan_kenobi on Zethi, blade of spells

9 months ago

Update 2: Heliod, the Radiant Dawn  ^Flip -> Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

obi_ivan_kenobi on Zethi, blade of spells

9 months ago

Update 1:
Leadership Vacuum -> You Come to a River
Arcane Melee -> Heliod, the Radiant Dawn  ^Flip
Telling Time -> Steel of the Godhead
Unbreakable Formation -> Akroma's Will

fluffyeel on Leeching Cotton: Oloro's Couch

9 months ago

Some thoughts:

• Opposition Agent is a possibly and suitably oppressive card, particularly with tutoring and fetching running rampant. Great fun.
• Raffine's Tower is a fetchable tri-land, which is great early game for color correction.
• Imperial Seal has been reprinted, so it's an extra cheap tutor that might be handy.
• Counterbalance can be delightfully obnoxious, and while it's combo potential with Sensei's Divining Top, you do have Soothsaying as an alternate option. It's countermagic, but it's exceptionally repeatable. Also, in terms of countermagic- and control-like things, I'd say to go for things with benefits, like Commandeer, Desertion, Vindicate (which I say is a must in those colors), Anguished Unmaking, Cyclonic Rift, Sunder, The Meathook Massacre...
• Dream Trawler might be pricey, but it's also very obnoxious to face. You could also think, in terms of creatures and creature-generation, about Sigil of the Empty Throne, Heliod, the Radiant Dawn  ^Flip, Field of the Dead...
• Felidar Sovereign is another alternate win with fewer life required than the Test of Endurance, though Aetherflux Reservoir can be another fun way to ensure your life shoots sky-high and gives you ammo to destroy things. I'm also partial to Kokusho, the Evening Star in any black deck.
• A fun (but slow) way to swipe creatures is Athreos, Shroud-Veiled. Great fun, and it's fairly hard for opponents to deal with if it's not a creature.

DemonDragonJ on Is the New Heliod Justified …

1 year ago

griffstick, GodzSoldier, I do not believe that any of the decks that I mentioned above can properly use Heliod, the Radiant Dawn  ^Flip, so I shall not put him into those decks.

DemonDragonJ on Is the New Heliod Justified …

1 year ago

Heliod, the Radiant Dawn  ^Flip is quite nice, since he can return an enchantment to his controller's hand, and then become a creature with the same ability as Vedalken Orrery and Leyline of Anticipation, so I am contemplating putting him into my EDH decks that contain blue and white, but I am not certain if those decks contains a sufficient number of enchantments to justify him being included in them, since costs 4 mana to summon and then another 4 before he provides his additional benefit.

I am contemplating putting the new Heliod into these four decks, but I am not certain if each of those decks contains a sufficient number of enchantments to justify me putting him into those decks.

What does everyone else say about this subject? Should I put Heliod, the Radiant Dawn  ^Flip into those decks?

Coward_Token on March of the Machine

1 year ago

Oh and maybe it was obvious but turns out Heliod, the Radiant Dawn  ^Flip is part of a cycle of ally-colored transformers, joined by at least Etali ({RG}) and Ayara ({BR}). Any takers for blue and green? Probably safe to say that it'll be still-living characters who have had a mono-colored legendary creature card and are from a plane that's been in Standard-legal set. (I'm hoping for {UB} Fblthp, and that he'll be the new main villin in ten years.)

New Elspeth is... not all that exciting, despite afaik being the only in-story preview? And yes, turns out she does have (a fake) Godsend, somehow. Oh and Serra is kind of still around?

Ranke feels like he was written as more red than black ("You can't tell me what to do!"). And Torbran, Thane of Red Fell, by contrast, seemed more white than red in how serious and responsible he was acting.

Beebles on Heliod is drawing all of the cards | V-MKM

1 year ago

Hey Licecolony, thanks for the tips! The seals are here because of Heliod, the Radiant Dawn  ^Flip's ETB. More graveyard hate is a good idea, especially because of the wheels. I will look into that. It's just that I can't go and remove all graveyards on a whim, because we need to be the only one shuffling ours back in the library to win. I'll give it some thought.

Thanks again!