Heliod, Sun-Crowned
Heliod, Sun-Crowned: Legendary Enchantment Creature - God, Commander Masters. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{W}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Legendary Enchantment Creature - God
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Power / toughness
- 5/5
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Set
- Commander Masters (CMM)
- Released
- 2023-08-04
- Collector number
- 29
- Artist
- Lius Lasahido
- Keywords
- Indestructible
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About Heliod, Sun-Crowned
Heliod, Sun-Crowned is a Magic: The Gathering card, a mythic rare white legendary enchantment creature from Commander Masters (CMM), a Masters set released in August 2023. It is collector number 29 in that set, with art by Lius Lasahido. It costs {2}{W} (two generic and one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 5/5 creature. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It has been printed in 6 sets, from Theros Beyond Death (2020) to Commander Masters (2023). It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $22.55 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature.
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control.
{1}{W}: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $22.55 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Heliod, Sun-Crowned by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Other printings of Heliod, Sun-Crowned
Heliod, Sun-Crowned has been printed in 6 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2165 | Mythic | 2025 |
| The List (PLST) #THB-18 | Mythic | 2024 |
| Commander Masters (CMM) #462 | Mythic | 2023 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #214 | Mythic | 2021 |
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #79849 | Mythic | 2020 |
| Theros Beyond Death Promos (PTHB) #18p | Mythic | 2020 |
| Theros Beyond Death Promos (PTHB) #18s | Mythic | 2020 |
| Theros Beyond Death (THB) #18 | Mythic | 2020 |
| Theros Beyond Death (THB) #259 | Mythic | 2020 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Heliod, Sun-Crowned, newest first.
- Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, Heliod's ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, planeswalkers, and/or battles at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.
- A noncreature enchantment with a +1/+1 counter on it will be unaffected by that counter until it becomes a creature, at which time it will get +1/+1 for that counter.
- In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause the ability to trigger, even though it caused your team's life total to increase.
- Counters put on a God remain on it while it's not a creature, even if they have no effect.
- Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).
- If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time.
- When a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color (including the mana symbols in the mana cost of the God itself) will determine if a creature entered the battlefield or not for abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield.
- Heliod can be the target of its own triggered ability.
Similar cards
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