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Daxos the Returned

Daxos the Returned

Legendary Creature — Zombie Soldier

Daxos the Returned wants a deck that plays lots of enchantments and draws a card for each one. It leads the ready-made Call the Spirits deck (2015).

  • Mana cost1 genericwhiteblack
  • White, Black ()
  • Power / toughness2 / 2
  • RarityMythic

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you get an experience counter.

1 genericwhiteblack: Create a white and black Spirit enchantment creature token. It has "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of experience counters you have."

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Cards That Fit Daxos the Returned

Picked for what they do in Daxos the Returned's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Daxos the Returned's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Decks Led by Daxos the Returned

Daxos the Returned leads a ready-made deck.PreconShort for preconstructed deck: a ready-to-play deck sold in a box by Wizards of the Coast. A Commander precon comes with its commander and all 100 cards, so you can play it straight away and change cards later.Open the full glossary

Rulings for Daxos the Returned

explain how Daxos the Returned works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 4 Nov 2015

All experience counters are identical, no matter how you got them. For example, the last ability will count experience counters that you got from the first ability, from another ability, from proliferating, and so on.

Wizards of the Coast 4 Nov 2015

Each game pack includes a card labeled “Experience” with the suggestion “Place your experience counters here.” This card isn’t required for play. It’s simply a convenient spot to put your experience counters, which can be represented with dice, glass beads, or other small items.

Wizards of the Coast 4 Nov 2015

Experience counters are the second kind of counters a player can have, joining poison.

Wizards of the Coast 4 Nov 2015

Putting an enchantment creature token onto the battlefield won’t cause Daxos’s first ability to trigger. On the other hand, constellation abilities trigger whenever an enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, so those abilities will trigger.

Wizards of the Coast 4 Nov 2015

The ability that defines the token’s power and toughness is part of the token’s copiable values. Copies of the token will also have that ability.

Wizards of the Coast 4 Nov 2015

The power and toughness of the tokens will change as the number of experience counters you have does.

6 rulings, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

Similar Commanders

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Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryWBPlayers write colors as letters: W for white, B for black.Aura/EnchantressEnchantress decks fill the battlefield with enchantments and use cards that draw you an extra card every time you cast one. An Aura is an enchantment that attaches to something, usually a creature, and changes it.Open the Aura/Enchantress pageEnchantment PayoffRewards you for casting or controlling enchantments, usually by drawing cards each time one enters. Sram, Senior Edificer, Eidolon of BlossomsOpen the Enchantment Payoff pageStat ScalingA creature whose power and toughness count something, so it grows as the game goes on. It might count lands you control or cards in your graveyard. Craterhoof Behemoth, Psychosis CrawlerOpen the Stat Scaling pageToken EngineMakes tokens again and again rather than once. A token is a creature or other permanent created by a card, with no card of its own. Something that makes one token gives you a body; something that makes them every turn gives you a board you can keep rebuilding after it is cleared. Grave Titan, Bitterblossom, OphiomancerOpen the Token Engine pageTokensToken decks fill the battlefield with small creatures made by their cards, then attack with all of them or make them all bigger at once. A token is a creature (or other object) that a card creates, not a card from your deck.Open the Tokens pageToken MakerCreates one or more tokens. Different cards make very different ones: creatures Grave Titan, Treasures Smothering Tithe, Clues Tireless Tracker or Food Gilded Goose. This is one of our largest tags, so pair it with an archetype or theme when you are hunting a specific kind.Open the Token Maker pageCounter ManipulationAdds, moves or multiplies counters already on permanents. It works on any kind (+1/+1, loyalty, charge), so the same card can serve very different decks. Karn's Bastion, Doubling SeasonOpen the Counter Manipulation page