Cryptic Spires

As you create your deck, circle two of the colors below.
Cryptic Spires enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of either of the circled colors.

Sky-Blessed Samurai

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each enchantment you control.
Flying

Tear Asunder

Kicker {1}{B} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Exile target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, exile target nonland permanent instead.

Riddleform

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may have Riddleform become a 3/3 Sphinx creature with flying in addition to its other types until end of turn.
{2}{U}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Go-Shintai of Lost Wisdom

Flying
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}. When you do, target player mills X cards, where X is the number of Shrines you control. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Starnheim Courser

Flying
Artifact and enchantment spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Sanctum of Stone Fangs

At the beginning of your first main phase, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of Shrines you control.

Witness Protection

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)

Honden of Cleansing Fire

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life for each Shrine you control.

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Norika Yamazaki, the Poet

Vigilance
Whenever a Samurai or Warrior you control attacks alone, you may cast target enchantment card from your graveyard this turn.

Simic Growth Chamber

Simic Growth Chamber enters tapped.
When Simic Growth Chamber enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {G}{U}.

Sanctum of Shattered Heights

{1}, Discard a land card or Shrine card: Sanctum of Shattered Heights deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker, where X is the number of Shrines you control.

Contaminated Aquifer

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Contaminated Aquifer enters tapped.

Radiant Grace

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has vigilance.
When enchanted creature dies, return Radiant Grace to the battlefield transformed under your control attached to target opponent.

Radiant Restraints

Enchant player
Creatures enchanted player controls enter tapped.

Radiant Grace // Radiant Restraints

Arcane Signet

Visions of Brutality

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't block.
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, its controller loses that much life.

Go-Shintai of Life's Origin

{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}, {T}: Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Whenever Go-Shintai of Life's Origin or another nontoken Shrine you control enters, create a 1/1 colorless Shrine enchantment creature token.

Jegantha, the Wellspring

Companion — No card in your starting deck has more than one of the same mana symbol in its mana cost. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)
{T}: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}. This mana can't be spent to pay generic mana costs.

Out of the Tombs

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two eon counters on Out of the Tombs, then mill cards equal to the number of eon counters on it.
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If you can't, you lose the game.

Sticky Fingers

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has menace and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token." (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures. The token is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
When enchanted creature dies, draw a card.

Open the Omenpaths

Choose one —
• Add two mana of any one color and two mana of any other color. Spend this mana only to cast creature or enchantment spells.
• Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Mountain

City of Brass

Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Honden of Life's Web

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token for each Shrine you control.

Sanctum of Fruitful Harvest

At the beginning of your first main phase, add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of Shrines you control.

Soul Tithe

Enchant nonland permanent
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted permanent's controller, that player sacrifices it unless they pay {X}, where X is its mana value.

Forest

Ordeal of Nylea

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice Ordeal of Nylea.
When you sacrifice Ordeal of Nylea, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Unbridled Growth

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
Sacrifice Unbridled Growth: Draw a card.

Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sythis, Harvest's Hand

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Dawnhart Geist

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you gain 2 life.

Sol Ring

Brokers Hideout

When Brokers Hideout enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Nyx Herald

At the beginning of combat on your turn, target enchanted creature or enchantment creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

Go-Shintai of Boundless Vigor

Trample
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target Shrine for each Shrine you control.

Sanctum of Tranquil Light

{5}{W}: Tap target creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each Shrine you control.

Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Circle of Flame

Whenever a creature without flying attacks you or a planeswalker you control, Circle of Flame deals 1 damage to that creature.

Dryad's Revival

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Flashback {4}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Cinder Glade

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
Cinder Glade enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Kami of Transience

Trample
Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Kami of Transience.
At the beginning of each end step, if an enchantment was put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn, you may return Kami of Transience from your graveyard to your hand.

Go-Shintai of Ancient Wars

First strike
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}. When you do, Go-Shintai of Ancient Wars deals X damage to target player or planeswalker, where X is the number of Shrines you control.

Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Plains

Island

Curse of Verbosity

Enchant player
Whenever enchanted player is attacked, you draw a card. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.

Honden of Seeing Winds

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card for each Shrine you control.

Honden of Night's Reach

At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent discards a card for each Shrine you control.

Swamp

Blessed Respite

Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Vow of Torment

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has menace, and can't attack you or planeswalkers you control. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Go-Shintai of Hidden Cruelty

Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}. When you do, destroy target creature with toughness X or less, where X is the number of Shrines you control.

Mirage Mirror

{2}: Mirage Mirror becomes a copy of target artifact, creature, enchantment, or land until end of turn.

Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Michiko's Reign of Truth

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I, II — Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each artifact and/or enchantment you control.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Portrait of Michiko

Portrait of Michiko gets +1/+1 for each artifact and/or enchantment you control.

Michiko's Reign of Truth // Portrait of Michiko

The Weatherseed Treaty

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
II — Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
III — Domain — Target creature you control gets +X/+X and gains trample until end of turn, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.

Azusa's Many Journeys

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — You may play an additional land this turn.
II — You gain 3 life.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Likeness of the Seeker

Whenever Likeness of the Seeker becomes blocked, untap up to three lands you control.

Azusa's Many Journeys // Likeness of the Seeker

Ghen, Arcanum Weaver

{R}{W}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice an enchantment: Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Go-Shintai of Shared Purpose

Vigilance
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token for each Shrine you control.

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Fall from Favor

Enchant creature
When Fall from Favor enters, tap enchanted creature and you become the monarch.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step unless that player is the monarch.

Robaran Mercenaries

Vigilance
Robaran Mercenaries has all activated abilities of all legendary creatures you control.

Sanctum of All

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a Shrine card and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
If an ability of another Shrine you control triggers while you control six or more Shrines, that ability triggers an additional time.

Shrine Steward

When Shrine Steward enters, you may search your library for an Aura or Shrine card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Jukai Naturalist

Lifelink
Enchantment spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Vow of Lightning

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has first strike, and can't attack you or planeswalkers you control.

Sungrass Prairie

Myth Realized

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a lore counter on Myth Realized.
{2}{W}: Put a lore counter on Myth Realized.
{W}: Until end of turn, Myth Realized becomes a Monk Avatar creature in addition to its other types and gains "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lore counters on it."

Griffin Aerie

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 white Griffin creature token with flying.

Honden of Infinite Rage

At the beginning of your upkeep, Honden of Infinite Rage deals damage to any target equal to the number of Shrines you control.

Sanctum of Calm Waters

At the beginning of your first main phase, you may draw X cards, where X is the number of Shrines you control. If you do, discard a card.

Rite of Harmony

Whenever a creature or enchantment you control enters this turn, draw a card.
Flashback {2}{G}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Whirlwind of Thought

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, draw a card.

Resurgent Belief

Suspend 2—{1}{W} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{W} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in your graveyard.)

Zur the Enchanter

Flying
Whenever Zur the Enchanter attacks, you may search your library for an enchantment card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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