Daxos, Blessed by the Sun

Gameplan

Daxos is a mono-white lifegain engine: flood the board with creatures so every enter and death triggers ping you life, then convert that life total into a win. He's also a resilient enchantment creature whose toughness scales with your white devotion, making him hard to kill in a heavy-pip board state. You go wide, gain incidental life, and close with lifegain payoffs, token swarms, or life-as-a-resource combos.

Key Cards

• Heliod, Sun-Crowned — Turns each lifegain trigger into a +1/+1 counter and combos with Walking Ballista for infinite damage off Daxos's life triggers.
• Walking Ballista — With Heliod's lifelink it becomes an infinite-damage win condition fueled by your lifegain.
• Archangel of Thune — Converts every Daxos lifegain trigger into a team-wide +1/+1 counter, snowballing your go-wide board.
• Anointed Procession — Doubles your token production, dramatically multiplying enter/die triggers for Daxos.
• Elspeth, Sun's Champion — Pumps out three tokens a turn and gives an overrun-style finisher for your wide board.
• Smothering Tithe — Mono-white's premier ramp/card-advantage engine to offset the color's resource weaknesses.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana and ramp (Sol Ring, Smothering Tithe, Nykthos, Mana Crypt) to outpace mono-white's slow start, then tighten the deck around a compact combo line like Heliod + Walking Ballista or Heliod + Spike Feeder. Include strong card-advantage pieces (Mangara, the Diplomat, Welcoming Vampire, Esper Sentinel) and recursion to recover from board wipes, plus protection like Teferi's Protection and Flawless Maneuver.