Southern Air Temple
Legendary Enchantment — Shrine
When Southern Air Temple enters, put X +1/+1 counters on each creature you control, where X is the number of Shrines you control.
Whenever another Shrine you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #8145
Southern Air Temple enters and immediately puts a spirit token onto the battlefield for each opponent running a creature — in a four-player pod that's routinely three free tokens on arrival. The cost is real: opponents with creatureless boards give you nothing, so it underperforms against combo or heavy-enchantment shells.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin wants every shrine it can find, and Southern Air Temple is a shrine that pays for its own inclusion by flooding the board with spirit tokens that Go-Shintai can immediately start converting into more shrine recursion triggers.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Southern Air Temple earns its slot — three opponents means a realistic ceiling of three tokens the moment it resolves, which is meaningful board presence for a three-mana land that also taps for colorless. Outside Commander, the card is legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Vintage, but the token clause scales directly with opponent count, so it generates at most one token in a duel and competes against lands that do far more. Pauper is the one format where it can't appear at all. Stick to Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Southern Air Temple is firmly bulk — you're not paying a premium for anything here. Bulk nonbasics at this price point rarely spike unless a new commander pushes the archetype hard, so treat it as a cheap pickup with no expectation of appreciation.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.