Heliod, God of the Sun

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Heliod is an indestructible enchantment that only becomes a 5/6 creature once your devotion to white reaches five. Until then it still gives your other creatures vigilance and lets you pay {2}{W}{W} to make a 2/1 Cleric enchantment token. That makes it a mana sink that never runs out and a steady source of attackers that can still block. The deck pairs white creatures with taxing enchantments and equipment, attacking without opening itself to a crackback.

In the recorded games, most lists leaned into stax. Aura of Silence, Suppression Field, Archon of Emeria, Aven Mindcensor and Grafdigger's Cage slowed opponents while small creatures chipped in. Land Tax kept land drops flowing. Planar Collapse served as a reset when the board got out of hand. A more aggressive build used Stoneforge Mystic to find Sword of Feast and Famine and put Angelic Destiny on a flier. Vigilance mattered in most games, since attacking never left the board open. The deck wins slowly, so it needs its locks to hold. Fast combo and large boards that ignore taxes were its harder matchups.