Shrine of Limitless Power
Artifact
At the beginning of your upkeep and whenever you cast a black spell, put a charge counter on this artifact.
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, Sacrifice this artifact: Target player discards a card for each charge counter on this artifact.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- New Phyrexia
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #25896
Shrine of Limitless Power converts discard and graveyard filling into colorless mana, scaling up the longer a self-discard or madness engine runs. The setup cost is real — it enters tapped and does nothing without prior graveyard activity — but in the right shell it reads as a free mana rock by midgame.
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 Shrine of Limitless Power actually lives, slotting into discard-matters and graveyard-value builds that already want a high card count in the bin — Anje Falkenrath, Sefris of the Hidden Ways, and similar commanders turn it on fast. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; those formats don't have the luxury of a slow, conditional mana source that enters tapped. Modern has payoffs for graveyard density but faster, unconditional mana rocks make Shrine of Limitless Power hard to justify in competitive lists.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Shrine of Limitless Power is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a commons box, not buying it. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply from recent print runs is plentiful, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.