Crescent Island Temple
Legendary Enchantment — Shrine
When Crescent Island Temple enters, for each Shrine you control, create a 1/1 red Monk creature token with prowess. (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever another Shrine you control enters, create a 1/1 red Monk creature token with prowess.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #8674
Crescent Island Temple enters tapped and produces blue or green mana — straightforward dual-land utility — but its real job is being a Shrine permanent that Go-Shintai of Life's Origin can recur from the graveyard. Outside Shrine synergy, it's a strict downgrade from any untapped dual, so the deckbuilding case is narrow but unambiguous.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin wants every Shrine it can find, and Crescent Island Temple counts — it's one of the few lands that doubles as a Shrine, letting Go-Shintai recur it from the graveyard and pad the Shrine count for the token trigger at virtually zero opportunity cost.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Crescent Island Temple is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but the only format where it earns a slot on purpose is Commander — specifically Shrine-tribal builds. In competitive 60-card formats it competes against untapped duals, shocklands, and fetchlands, and a tapped blue-green dual with no immediate upside doesn't clear that bar. Commander's singleton rule and the prevalence of Go-Shintai of Life's Origin decks is what makes it relevant at all; elsewhere it's background noise.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Crescent Island Temple sits firmly in bulk territory — cheap enough to pick up as a throw-in. Bulk Shrine lands don't accumulate speculative demand, so don't expect the price to move unless a future Shrine commander pushes the archetype into wider play.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.