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

Legendary Enchantment Creature — God // Legendary Enchantment Creature — Phyrexian God

When Heliod enters, return target enchantment card that isn't a God from your graveyard to your hand.
{3}{U/P}: Transform Heliod. Activate only as a sorcery. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{W}{W}
Color identity
UW
Rarity
rare
Set
March of the Machine
Price
$3.64
EDHREC rank
#3139
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Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse card art
Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse flips into a cost-reduction engine that makes every spell with a top-deck manipulation piece like Sensei's Divining Top effectively free to chain — the back face's exile-draw replacement turns spell cost reduction into raw card advantage. The six-mana front face is steep, but commanders like Zur, Eternal Schemer can fetch the enchantment version directly onto the battlefield, completely bypassing that cost.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zur, Eternal Schemer

Zur, Eternal Schemer

46.5% of decks · synergy 0.43

Zur, Eternal Schemer can attach Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse directly to a creature as an Aura via its ability, sidestepping the six-mana cast cost entirely and immediately turning on the cost-reduction engine.

02
Atreus, Impulsive SonKratos, Stoic Father

Atreus, Impulsive Son // Kratos, Stoic Father

29.5% of decks · synergy 0.28

Atreus, Impulsive Son // Kratos, Stoic Father runs a high density of multicolored spells that want cost reduction, and Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse's back face makes chaining through those spells while exiling from the top of the library feel nearly free.

03
Aminatou, Veil Piercer

Aminatou, Veil Piercer

29.5% of decks · synergy 0.26

Aminatou, Veil Piercer cares about the number of card types and permanents entering, and Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse contributes both a God type and a consistent top-deck manipulation outlet to keep the engine churning.

04
Kwain, Itinerant Meddler

Kwain, Itinerant Meddler

27.6% of decks · synergy 0.25

Kwain, Itinerant Meddler decks lean on group draw effects to generate incremental advantage, and Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse's exile-draw replacement on the back face converts that constant card flow into a cost-reduction loop that scales with table draw.

05
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

25.6% of decks · synergy 0.23

Sokrates, Athenian Teacher rewards drawing cards and casting spells in quick succession, exactly the loop Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse enables by reducing costs as you exile and redraw off the top.

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 the natural home for Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse — the back face's cost-reduction engine scales with the longer games and higher spell density of multiplayer, and the front face's six-mana ask is far more manageable when you're not racing a turn-four clock. In Legacy and Vintage, the card is technically legal but sees no meaningful play; those formats move too fast for a six-mana enchantment that needs a turn to flip before it does anything. Modern and Pioneer are similarly inhospitable — the cost and the setup time both push it out of competitive range in those 60-card formats. Oathbreaker gives it a narrower but real home, particularly in white-blue shells that can leverage the top-deck synergy in a more streamlined way.

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Price Context

Current price

$3.64 cheap tier

At $3.64, Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse sits in the accessible budget tier — low enough that it's an easy inclusion without testing anyone's trade binder. Given its concentration in Commander and the absence of competitive demand elsewhere, the price is unlikely to climb sharply, but it's also not a bulk rare; the unique back-face mechanic keeps it from bottoming out.

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