Luxa River Shrine
Artifact
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: You gain 1 life. Put a brick counter on this artifact.: You gain 2 life. Activate only if there are three or more brick counters on this artifact.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Amonkhet
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #20875
Luxa River Shrine drains each opponent for 1 and gains you 1 life every upkeep — but only after you've stacked three differently-named counters on it, one per turn, which means a minimum three-turn setup before it does anything. That payoff is too slow and too small for most Commander tables, where the game is often decided before the shrine ever fires.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Luxa River Shrine is a bulk rare in every format it's legal in, and Pauper is the only place it's ever worth a second look — drain-one effects are more meaningful there, though the setup still drags. In Commander, the three-turn ramp-up to a one-damage drain is irrelevant at a 40-life multiplayer table where opponents routinely gain or lose life in chunks of five or more. Constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer have zero interest: the effect is too slow, too small, and replaced by more efficient life-drain payoffs.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Luxa River Shrine sits firmly in bulk territory and is unlikely to move — the demand simply isn't there. Pick it up if a specific life-counter synergy deck calls for it, but don't expect the price floor to ever become a ceiling.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.