We love playing the jankiest decks and going off-meta, so with Kamigawa: Neon Dynastys release, five brand new pseudo-shrines (theyre legendary enchantment creatures too) and the Go-Shintai of Lifes Origin (available only in set and collectors boxes), we knew it was time for shrines to shine
2: Ouroboroid This cards made to scale and in the right deck, it can get out of hand fast
This is doubly true since those creatures generate Energy of their own, allowing for potent chains
Once you internalize that, the card evaluations below become obvious: ask of every card, is this a source or a payoff, and does the rest of my deck cover the other side? Best lifegain sources (the engines) You want repeatable, incremental gain lots of small triggers beat one big lifegain spell, because payoffs like Vito or Archangel of Thune care about the number of times you gain, not just the total
Such techniques are based on destroying the monsters from the GY
Kami of Whispered Hopes Suggested Cut: Rampant Rejuvenator This deck doesnt need a card like Rampant Rejuvenator that wants to die given its lack of sacrifice effects, and even then I dont know about a 4-mana piece of sacrifice fodder