I Sold Out and Made a Heliod Deck

There's a deck I see a million times while playing MTGA - it's built around healing and things that benefit from healing, particularly White's Theran God and Demigod, as well as the usual Ajani's Pridemate.

I sort of feel bad playing this deck, as it's such a common thing, but I was on a hell of a losing streak earlier today and decided I'd like to win for once, thank you very much.

I did have a frustrating match against a deathtouch-based deck that managed to buy enough time to get out Ugin, the Spirit Dragon and wipe the board, leaving me little chance to rebuild and just endure a slow march to death while they blasted me with Ugin for 3 a round (I was at 103 life at this point, so it wasn't going to be quick.)

But overall, the deck is usually pretty fast, and the healing helps you survive rushes by more aggressive decks.

So, I have:

4 copies of Ajani's Pridemate and Healer Hawk, and maybe Inspired Orator (can't remember if that's 3 or 4 copies.)

3 copies of Daxos, Blessed by the Sun or whatever his epithet is. Daxos is a Legendary Enchantment Creature, a Demigod, whose toughness is your devotion to white (he costs WW, so it's always at least 2) and every time a creature comes into play or leaves play on your side of the board, you get 1 life.

2 copies of Heliod, Sun-Crowned (3 might be nice, but I'm not made of Mythic Rare Wildcards.) Heliod is one of the Theros God cards, so it's just an enchantment until your devotion is 5 or more (the two-color ones require 7) and then becomes a creature. It's indestructible, which is why it's really nice to have them in creature form, and why your opponents really want to blast permanents to ensure that your devotion is low. He's got a 4/5 body, but the huge benefit is that every time you gain life (which is often in this deck) you can put a +1/+1 counter on any creature (or enchantment, which means you can put them on him even when he's not a creature.) Then, you can also grant another creature (not Heliod) Lifelink for 1W.

So the deck is fairly straightforward - you want to get someone like a Pridemate or really anything once you have Heliod out and keep smacking the opponent to stack up counters. And you can tend to let enemy creatures through when you're healing enough.

It's a deck that's pretty good at surviving fast-paced decks while tending to outpace long-term control decks. But it can get very tedious if you're against another slow-burn deck.

Anyway, the Theros gods are pretty fun to play with.