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Dictate of Heliod

Enchantment

Flash
Creatures you control get +2/+2.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander 2015
Price
$0.43
EDHREC rank
#6615
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Dictate of Heliod card art
Dictate of Heliod lands as a flash-speed, permanent +2/+2 anthem for your entire team — that's a massive swing if you leave mana up on an opponent's attack step. The five-mana cost means it competes with actual threats for resources, so it earns its slot only when you're flooding the board fast enough to make a global buff decisive, which is exactly what token engines like Emmara, Soul of the Accord and discard payoffs like Zombie Infestation deliver.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Emmara, Soul of the Accord

Emmara, Soul of the Accord

33.2% of decks · synergy 0.31

Emmara, Soul of the Accord taps to create Soldier tokens, which means every Convoke spell, every crew trigger, every combat tap is also widening the board — Dictate of Heliod turns that mass of 1/1s into a lethal clock that opponents can't safely attack into.

02
Errant and Giada

Errant and Giada

17.4% of decks · synergy 0.17

Errant and Giada go wide with Angels while Giada pumps them; Dictate of Heliod stacks on top of that inherent lord effect, pushing already-above-rate fliers into one-shot territory and making any alpha strike deeply punishing to survive.

03
Odric, Lunarch Marshal

Odric, Lunarch Marshal

10.2% of decks · synergy 0.08

Odric, Lunarch Marshal distributes keyword abilities across the whole board at the start of combat, so the creatures Dictate of Heliod is pumping already share first strike, vigilance, or lifelink — the anthem is multiplying the value of abilities that would otherwise sit on one creature.

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

Dictate of Heliod sees almost no play in competitive formats — five mana for a static anthem is simply too slow and too removable in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where the game ends before a global buff matters. Commander is its real home: the flash clause lets you hold up interaction or pass priority and then surprise opponents at end of turn, and the permanent anthem is exactly what go-wide creature strategies need to close out a multiplayer game. In Oathbreaker the faster average game speed pushes it toward the fringe, but token-heavy signatures can still find room for it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.43 bulk tier

At $0.43, Dictate of Heliod is bulk — no surprise for a card that sees Commander-only demand. Bulk rares with niche but real applications tend to stay flat, so expect this to stay in the quarters box indefinitely.

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