Sundial, Dawn Tyrant

Gameplan

Sundial, Dawn Tyrant is a cheap 2-mana mono-white artifact creature commander you deploy early and build the board around, leveraging white's go-wide token production and artifact synergies. You flood the board, buff or protect your team with anthems and equipment, and grind incremental advantage through recursion and taxes. The deck closes games by attacking with a wide board or assembling a value engine that outpaces opponents.

Key Cards

• Swords to Plowshares — The most efficient removal in white, essential for clearing blockers or threats.
• Smothering Tithe — Mono-white's premier ramp and card-advantage engine to fix the color's weaknesses.
• Skullclamp — Turns your expendable tokens and small creatures into a relentless card-draw engine.
• Anointed Procession — Doubles your token output to overwhelm the board for go-wide finishes.
• Heroic Intervention — Protects your board and commander from sweepers and targeted removal.

Upgrade Path

Add efficient mana rocks (Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Marble Diamond) and white's card-draw pieces (Mentor of the Meek, Welcoming Vampire) to offset color weaknesses. Tighten the curve with premium removal and protection like Teferi's Protection and Path to Exile, and consider a compact combo such as a token-doubler plus a sacrifice-and-recur loop to give the deck reach beyond pure combat.