Honden of Life's Web
Legendary Enchantment — Shrine
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token for each Shrine you control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Champions of Kamigawa
- Price
- $4.10
- EDHREC rank
- #5357
Honden of Life's Web puts a 1/1 Spirit token into play at the start of your upkeep for every Shrine you control — in a dedicated Shrine deck, that's three to five bodies per turn by mid-game. The five-mana cost is steep in a vacuum, but Go-Shintai of Life's Origin turns every one of those tokens into a Shrine itself, and Weaver of Harmony can copy the triggered ability to double the flood.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy

Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin is the natural home — it converts every Spirit token Honden of Life's Web produces into another Shrine, which in turn pumps the Honden's output, creating a self-accelerating loop that ends games within a few turns of both hitting the battlefield.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Honden of Life's Web actually lives — the 100-card singleton format gives it room to breathe inside a dedicated Shrine package, and the multiplayer life totals buy enough time for the token engine to matter. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but functionally irrelevant; five mana for a do-nothing enchantment that needs its own tribe to function has no place in those formats. Modern is the only constructed format where a Shrine deck is theoretically viable, and even there Honden of Life's Web sits at the slow end of what the archetype wants.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card




Weaver of HarmonyFreed from the RealHonden of Life's WebPhyrexian Altar
Infinite colored mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Weaver of HarmonyPemmin's AuraHonden of Life's WebPhyrexian Altar
Infinite colored mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Weaver of HarmonyUmbral MantleHonden of Life's WebPhyrexian 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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Weaver of HarmonyStaff of DominationHonden of Life's WebPhyrexian 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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Esix, Fractal BloomTimestream NavigatorHonden of Life's Web
Infinite turns; Lock
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Current price
$4.10 cheap tier
At $4.10, Honden of Life's Web sits in budget territory — cheap enough to include without deliberation if you're building Shrines. Demand is narrow enough that the price is stable rather than climbing, so there's no urgency to buy in.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.