Shrine Steward
Artifact Creature — Construct
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an Aura or Shrine card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #10699
Shrine Steward tutors any Shrine directly onto the battlefield — not into your hand, onto the battlefield — which is the kind of card advantage that snowballs fast in a Shrine-heavy shell. The entire engine runs through Go-Shintai of Life's Origin, and Shrine Steward is one of the cleanest ways to keep it fed.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin wants every Shrine it can get onto the battlefield as fast as possible, and Shrine Steward delivers one directly when it dies — turning a two-mana creature into a free tutor the moment any board wipe or combat trade clears it out.
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 |
Shrine Steward is a Commander card through and through — the Shrine type has no competitive presence in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, so the tutor effect is essentially irrelevant outside of sixty-card casual. In Pauper it's legal but the Shrine payoffs aren't there to justify the slot. Commander is the only format where Shrine Steward earns its keep, and specifically in the narrow slice of Go-Shintai of Life's Origin decks where the battlefield density of Shrines is the whole game plan.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Shrine Steward is deep bulk — pick it up without thinking. It's a narrow enough card that demand stays low, so the price is unlikely to move unless a new Shrine commander pushes the archetype into wider play.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.