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Daxos, Blessed by the Sun

Legendary Enchantment Creature — Demigod

Daxos's toughness is equal to your devotion to white. (Each {W} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.)
Whenever another creature you control enters or dies, you gain 1 life.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Magic Online Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#1691
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Daxos, Blessed by the Sun card art
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun turns every creature entering your battlefield into a life payment — and every creature dying into another one — making him a passive life engine that runs without any activation cost. The real ceiling is Darien, King of Kjeldor: damage you take becomes Soldiers, Soldiers entering triggers Daxos, and suddenly your opponent's attacks are healing you faster than they're hurting you.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Darien, King of Kjeldor

Darien, King of Kjeldor

77.4% of decks · synergy 0.66

Darien, King of Kjeldor converts damage into Soldier tokens, and every one of those tokens entering the battlefield triggers Daxos, Blessed by the Sun — the two create a feedback loop where getting hit replenishes your life total instead of depleting it.

02
Aerith Gainsborough

Aerith Gainsborough

73.9% of decks · synergy 0.62

Aerith Gainsborough rewards life gain with card advantage and token generation, and Daxos, Blessed by the Sun supplies a steady stream of life triggers just from the normal flow of creatures entering and dying.

03
Amalia Benavides Aguirre

Amalia Benavides Aguirre

63.8% of decks · synergy 0.58

Amalia Benavides Aguirre explores whenever you gain life, and Daxos, Blessed by the Sun generates those life gain triggers on every creature enter and exit — the combination turns a wide board into a cascading explore engine.

04
Trelasarra, Moon Dancer

Trelasarra, Moon Dancer

61.6% of decks · synergy 0.58

Trelasarra, Moon Dancer grows and scries whenever you gain life, so the constant low-value triggers from Daxos, Blessed by the Sun add up to a very large, very well-equipped commander over a long game.

05
Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Heliod, Sun-Crowned

65.2% of decks · synergy 0.54

Heliod, Sun-Crowned distributes +1/+1 counters on life gain triggers, and Daxos, Blessed by the Sun produces those triggers at a volume that quickly scales the whole board.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Daxos, Blessed by the Sun earns his keep — long games with high creature counts mean the life-gain triggers accumulate into a meaningful buffer, and the life-loss trigger on creature deaths doubles the value in attrition-heavy pods. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer he's too slow and too low-impact; a 2/2 for two with a passive life-gain ability doesn't threaten anything or protect itself. Legacy and Vintage have access to him but have no reason to run him — those formats move too fast for incremental life padding to matter. Oathbreaker can find a niche for him in a dedicated life-gain shell, but the 20 starting life total compresses the window where his advantage accumulates.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Current pricing data for Daxos, Blessed by the Sun isn't available in this listing, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for the live number. Given his niche role and the existence of stronger life-gain payoffs at similar price points, he tends to sit in budget territory — worth picking up if the combo lines with Darien, King of Kjeldor appeal to you.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.