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Go-Shintai of Shared Purpose

Legendary Enchantment Creature — Shrine

Vigilance
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token for each Shrine you control.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
Price
$0.35
EDHREC rank
#5222
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Go-Shintai of Shared Purpose card art
Go-Shintai of Shared Purpose drops a 1/1 Spirit token at the end of every turn a Shrine entered the battlefield under your control — in a dedicated Shrine deck, that's a token on each player's turn, not just yours. The payoff is real and the five-mana cost is acceptable when Go-Shintai of Life's Origin can cheat Shrines into play for free, and Weaver of Harmony can copy the triggered ability for double the output.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Go-Shintai of Life's Origin

Go-Shintai of Life's Origin

90.0% of decks · synergy 0.86

Go-Shintai of Life's Origin recurs and cheats Shrines directly onto the battlefield, triggering Go-Shintai of Shared Purpose on every opponent's end step and burying the table in tokens before combat even begins.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Go-Shintai of Shared Purpose is a Commander card in practice — Shrine synergy requires a critical mass of enchantments that only a 99-card singleton format can reliably assemble, and the triggered ability scales with how many Shrines are already on the board. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but functionally unplayed; no competitive Shrine shell exists in those formats, and a five-mana do-nothing-alone enchantment can't justify the slot. Oathbreaker is the one fringe exception where a Shrine commander lets the strategy function, but the smaller deck size makes consistency harder to achieve.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

6 decks
Weaver of HarmonyUmbral MantleGo-Shintai of Shared PurposePhyrexian Altar

Weaver of HarmonyUmbral MantleGo-Shintai of Shared PurposePhyrexian Altar

Infinite colored mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinitely large creature until end of turn; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce

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5 decks
Weaver of HarmonyStaff of DominationGo-Shintai of Shared PurposePhyrexian Altar

Weaver of HarmonyStaff of DominationGo-Shintai of Shared PurposePhyrexian Altar

Infinite card draw; Infinite colored mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.35 bulk tier

At $0.35, Go-Shintai of Shared Purpose is deep bulk — pick it up without a second thought for any Shrine build. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to spike outside a sudden surge in Shrine commander popularity.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.