Daxos Enchantments

Commander / EDH Control Enchantment Lifegain WB (Orzhov)

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Enchantment (28)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Aurification
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Cessation
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Debtors' Knell
• 1x Faith's Fetters
• 1x Flickering Ward
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Profane Procession  ^Flip
• 1x Quarantine Field
• 1x Rule of Law
• 1x Seal of Cleansing
• 1x Shielded by Faith
• 1x Sigil of the Empty Throne
• 1x Skybind
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x True Conviction

Instant (2)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Utter End

Land (37)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x New Benalia
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 11x Plains
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Shambling Vent
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vault of the Archangel

Artifact (9)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
• 1x Sorin, Grim Nemesis

Commander (1)

Creature (14)

• 1x Ajani's Chosen
• 1x Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Divinity of Pride
• 1x Doomwake Giant
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Heliod, God of the Sun
• 1x Karlov of the Ghost Council
• 1x Pontiff of Blight
• 1x Silent Sentinel
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Tymna the Weaver
• 1x Underworld Coinsmith
• 1x Wall of Omens

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Day of Judgment
• 1x Extinguish All Hope
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Plea for Guidance
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Wrath of God

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Enchantment (8)

• 1x Angelic Renewal
• 1x Dawn of Hope
• 1x Greater Auramancy
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Nevermore
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Overwhelming Splendor
• 1x Underworld Connections

Creature (6)

• 1x Agent of Erebos
• 1x Archetype of Finality
• 1x Auramancer
• 1x Mesa Enchantress
• 1x Monk Idealist
• 1x Windborn Muse

Land (1)

• 1x Maze of Ith

Artifact (1)

• 1x Crawlspace

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Open the Vaults

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Daxos is a bit of a tricky deck to build and play. It requires a lot of mana to be able to both build up experience counters and also generate enough spirit tokens to control the board. It tends to start pretty slowly, which means it generally plays better in multiplayer than 1v1. Since you have a lot of answers, it's worth trading answers for peace in the early game until you've built up your mana base.

In a lot of Daxos builds, the lifegain theme in the precon to support Karlov of the Ghost Council is removed. I ended up doing some tweaks and leaving in the lifegain subtheme in order to have access to more spot removal (even if it is conditional). I like gaining life, and I was willing to sacrifice a bit of raw power to have a little more variety in how the deck plays.

Major themes of the deck:

• Taxing / Control
• Life gain
• Recursion (Graveyard / Flicker)

Accumulating Value

Our main path to victory is simply getting a ton of value from a small number of cards and grinding down the board. This is generally accomplished through token production and card draw.

Our token producers are Daxos the Returned, Ajani's Chosen, Heliod, God of the Sun, Sigil of the Empty Throne and Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath. Daxos and Heliod's tokens are also enchantments, which can give you Constellation triggers at instant speed. Anointed Procession is also great for increasing your token production and gets really nuts with Daxos + Ajani's Chosen. We can amp up the value of our tokens with Cathars' Crusade and True Conviction. This build cuts Celestial Ancient as it's really not very good unless you're blinking Flickering Ward a lot.

For raw card draw, we have a few options:

• Repeatable draw: Necropotence, Erebos, God of the Dead, Arguel's Blood Fast  , Phyrexian Arena. These all cost life, which is mitigated somewhat by the lifegain subtheme.
• Single-use draw: Read the Bones, Mind Stone, Commander's Sphere, Wall of Omens. Most of these can be fetched from the graveyard. Wall can be flickered with Skybind in a pinch.
• Tutors: Enlightened Tutor, Increasing Ambition, Plea for Guidance can fetch various answers as needed.
• Land Tax can also fill up our hand with lands to make our drops and thin the deck. When not going first, it's one of the strongest cards in the deck.

Taxing / Control

We have a few major types of tax/control effects:

• Creature protection: Flickering Ward, Lightning Greaves, Shielded by Faith
• Single-target lockdown: Darksteel Mutation, Faith's Fetters, Cessation, Skybind
• Spot Removal: Many options ranging from Oblivion Ring and Attrition to Aura of Silence and Sorin, Grim Nemesis
• Attack punishment: Ghostly Prison, Sphere of Safety, Aurification
• Combo Protection: Rule of Law can shut down spellslinger and slow down aggro decks.

Life Gain

In addition to having a lot of ways to spend life, the deck runs two lifegain payoffs: Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim and Karlov of the Ghost Council. While they're both vulnerable being creatures, they can both be recovered with Sun Titan, Treasury Thrull and Debtors' Knell.

There are two main ways to enable them:

• Sacrifice tokens with Ayli. Wall of Omens plus a repeatable recursion effect is also a great sac target.
• Lifelink is available through Tymna the Weaver, Shambling Vent, Divinity of Pride, True Conviction and Vault of the Archangel.
• Extort is available from Pontiff of Blight and Treasury Thrull.
• Underworld Coinsmith gains life every time you activate Daxos or Heliod.
• You can also get a bit of life from Sorin, Grim Nemesis or Faith's Fetters.

Recursion

There's a couple of different styles of recursion available here:

• Skybind is one of our signature cards. Tokens generated by Daxos the Returned and Heliod, God of the Sun trigger it, allowing us to blink out enemy attackers at instant speed. You can sometimes disrupt combos by blinking out pieces or even lands. In a pinch, you can blink your own creatures to dodge board wipes or removal. Sun Titan and Wall of Omens are both good targets if you have spare mana.
• Flickering Ward can be used to dump mana and get a bunch of extra experience counters.
• Debtors' Knell gives us the best creature from any graveyard each turn.
• Sun Titan can get a pretty good chunk of our deck back while being a great attacker and blocker.
• Silent Sentinel and Treasury Thrull are harder to attack with, but can fetch with no CMC restriction.
• Crystal Chimes gets enchantments back to our hand to recast for more experience counters. This may be better as Open the Vaults.

We do not run Starfield of Nyx. It's actually somewhat bad here since it supercedes the P/T setting ability on Daxos/Heliod's tokens, making them become 0/0's and die instantly. It also opens your entire board to getting blown out by a wrath. Mass enchantment recursion is safer without the huge downside.

Possible Substitutions

If your table has a lot of enchantment destruction, Karmic Justice and Open the Vaults from the original deck are all excellent cards. They are not in my list because so much enchantment removal in my meta is exile-based.

If you want to focus more on tokens, cutting some of the lifegain cards in favor of Intangible Virtue, Marshal's Anthem and Dictate of Heliod is a decent option. Anthem also provides additional graveyard recursion. These allow Daxos to make tokens without any experience counters.

Rule of Law gets much worse if there isn't much combo to deal with. If there's a lot of it in your meta, Eidolon of Rhetoric can give additional protection.

If you have a higher budget, fetchlands + Scroll Rack can get more value from Land Tax. No Mercy and Greater Auramancy are very strong. Also, powerful tutors like Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor would be good bets.

To lower the cost, I would remove the lifegain plan for token buffs, Land Tax => any mana rock, Erebos => Greed, Debtors' Knell => Phyrexian Reclamation, Enlightened Tutor => Diabolic Tutor and/or Attrition => Seal of Doom. Those changes push the deck cost back under $150 (with the upgrade from stock going down to around $80).

Adds as for price check: Daxos Precon Upgrades

Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.48
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Cat 2/2 W, Demon 5/5 B, Emblem Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath, Enchantment Cleric 2/1 W, Enchantment Spirit */* WB, Experience Token, Vampire Knight 1/1 B
Folders	EDH