HELIOS One
Land
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, : You get 
(an energy counter).
, , Pay X , Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value X. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Fallout
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4809
HELIOS One lands and immediately threatens the table with a repeatable, tappable damage source that scales with the artifacts and energy you're already building. The cost is real — five mana for a land that enters tapped is a tempo ask — but Liberty Prime, Recharged decks treat it as a core piece, not a luxury.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Liberty Prime, Recharged
Liberty Prime, Recharged runs HELIOS One in over 80% of lists because the deck's artifact-and-energy gameplan feeds the facility's activation conditions directly, turning a land slot into a consistent win-condition enabler.
Dr. Madison Li
Dr. Madison Li tutors and cheats out artifacts aggressively, and HELIOS One rewards that density by giving the deck a land that does real work rather than just producing mana.
Satya, Aetherflux Genius
Satya, Aetherflux Genius creates token copies of artifacts on attack, and HELIOS One's triggered abilities give those blink-and-copy loops something valuable to recur and stack.
Saheeli, Radiant Creator
Saheeli, Radiant Creator's artifact-copy effects let her exploit HELIOS One as both a mana source and a repeated threat, which is why it shows up in a third of her lists despite the looser thematic fit.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
HELIOS One is a Commander card through and through — the five-mana enters-tapped cost is too slow for Legacy or Vintage, where it's technically legal but sees no meaningful play. In Commander, the calculation flips: you have 40 life, slower pacing, and artifact-synergy commanders who turn a utility land into a late-game engine. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it occasionally appears, again only in artifact-heavy builds that can actually fuel it. Everywhere else, the card simply doesn't exist.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for HELIOS One isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live market rate before buying. Given its 80%-plus inclusion rate in Liberty Prime, Recharged decks, demand is real — don't expect to find it in bulk bins.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Liberty Prime, Recharged
- Dr. Madison Li
- Satya, Aetherflux Genius
- Saheeli, Radiant Creator
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.