Nantuko Shrine
Enchantment
Whenever a player casts a spell, that player creates X 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens, where X is the number of cards in all graveyards with the same name as that spell.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $1.60
- EDHREC rank
- #18032
Nantuko Shrine floods the board with Squirrel tokens whenever either player casts a spell with a shared name already in a graveyard — in a deck like Katilda and Lier that stacks the graveyard fast, that trigger fires constantly. The three-mana enchantment is cheap to land, but it rewards you proportionally to how full graveyards get, which means it needs a shell built around that reality, not just slotted in as a value add; Displacer Kitten loops make it particularly explosive by bouncing and recasting the same spells repeatedly.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Katilda and Lier
Katilda and Lier recasts spells from the graveyard by nature, which means the graveyard fills fast and every recast spell is almost guaranteed to share a name with something already buried — Nantuko Shrine turns that recursive engine into a Squirrel factory that scales directly with how many spells you're copying and replaying.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Nantuko Shrine is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through. In Legacy and Vintage, the graveyard-name-matching trigger is too slow and conditional against decks operating at a higher speed with more disruptive tools. Commander is where Nantuko Shrine earns its slot: multiplayer games run long, graveyards accumulate naturally, and a single enchantment that taxes every spell cast at the table can generate dozens of tokens in a game with four players. Oathbreaker can replicate this in miniature if the signature spell gets recasted repeatedly, but the lower player count dampens the trigger volume significantly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Nantuko ShrineDisplacer KittenInfirmary Healer // Stream of LifePhyrexian Altar
Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers
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Nantuko ShrineDisplacer KittenSpellbook Seeker // Careful StudyPhyrexian Altar
Infinite draw triggers; Infinite rummaging; Near-infinite self-discard triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite magecraft triggers; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers
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Current price
$1.60 cheap tier
At $1.60, Nantuko Shrine sits firmly in the cheap tier — a low-risk pickup for any token or graveyard-synergy Commander build. It's a niche enchantment with a narrow best-fit context, so don't expect the price to move much, but at that rate you're not gambling on it either.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.