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.
How Go-Shintai of Life's Origin decks play in EDH
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin is a five-colour commander in white, blue, black, red and green costing 3G, and its legendary enchantment creature - shrine line shapes the whole deck around it. It makes tokens, so the deck wants ways to pump a wide board and to turn spare bodies into cards or damage. It works out of the graveyard, so self-mill and cheap recursion effectively become extra card advantage. The cards below are the ones Go-Shintai of Life's Origin decks actually play most often, grouped by the job they do.
Most-played cards
20 cards · about $61.94Play rates from EDHREC. Prices from Scryfall, refreshed daily.
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Grimoire generates a complete, Commander-legal Go-Shintai of Life's Origin decklist with a written strategy, a full mana base and live prices — from the whole card pool, or only from cards you already own.
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What colours can I use in a Go-Shintai of Life's Origin deck?
Go-Shintai of Life's Origin has a five-colour colour identity, so every card in the deck must be white, blue, black, red and green or colourless. That includes mana symbols in rules text, not just casting cost.
What are the best cards for Go-Shintai of Life's Origin?
The cards played most often in Go-Shintai of Life's Origin decks include Pia, Aether Ascetic, Gleaming Splendor, Omnipresence. The full list of staples above is grouped by the job each card does, so you can see the deck's skeleton rather than just a pile of names.
How much does a Go-Shintai of Life's Origin deck cost?
The 20 most-played cards shown above come to roughly $61.94 at current market prices. A complete 100-card build costs more, and Grimoire can generate a budget version instead if you set a price ceiling.
Can I build a Go-Shintai of Life's Origin deck from cards I already own?
Yes. Import your collection into Grimoire and choose "my cards" when you build. The generator will only use cards you actually own, and the Missing Cards page shows what you would need to buy to finish any list.