I need 9 cards to help round out the mainboard, preferably enchantments.

Some cards that might help - Setessan Champion (not an enchantment, but will help to hit hard for damage)

Idyllic Tutor Helps find more shrines

Really all I've got. This is quite a janky deck, but for me, jank = amazing, so good luck.

0riginal Oh yeah, this is all jank but like you I love some good jank on the table. I'm the guy at my LCS's who put together and won some games with a Happily Ever After deck.

That said, I think I agree that Setessan Champion is a good fit here. Too much value in terms of pumping and card draw. I don't think I'm going to go with the tutor only because it seems unnecessary. With the card draw I should get from the Champion or Blue Shrine, finding enchantments shouldn't be a problem. Maybe something like Starlit Mantle for protection

In thinking less shrines themselves as the legendary nature makes additional in hand dead cards. Arcanist's Owl, Narset, Parter of Veils and other ways to dig for the shrines.

Archon of Sun's Grace is a must I think. It feels like this deck would work best in a control shell.

I am very curious about this myself and will probably try a few iterations.

ShiltonCDXX I thought about a control shell too, because I want to be able to dictate pace of play as I build my shrine to shrines. I just think going outside of Shrines and enchantment interaction it takes away from being a true 5 color Shrine deck.

My thoughts on 3 of for each Shrine is that there are honestly no dead cards in hand with these Shrines. Shattered Heights wants you to discard Shrines, Calm Waters wants you to discard, Sanctum of All lets you pull Shrines from your graveyard for play and both Champion and Archon care about enchantments entering the battlefield so if I'm casting a second legendary that is just bonus for me even though one is going to leave the battlefield after it hits.

True, I forgot about the discard on shattered heights.

Fires of Invention is banned unfortunately. I noticed it in your maybeboard.

I'm wondering if Yorion, Sky Nomad works here as well. Allows for the control cards to be added without taking away from other pieces and blinking all your shrines gives provides an additional constellation trigger.

The 3-ofs is awkward. You should think more about the progression of the first 4 or so turns. What cards do you want to see every time? What cards do you just want to be in the deck to fetch with the 5-c Shrine or find with Calix?

My guess is that you should go up on the following cards to 4x:

Setessan Champion
Sanctum of Fruitful Harvest
Sanctum of Calm Waters
Destiny Spinner

And down on the following cards to 1-2x:
Sanctum of Stone Fangs
Sanctum of Tranquil Light
Starlit Mantle

I also don't think the Triomes are the best manabase. Unless you're planning already for the Shocklands to rotate, you'll want some combination of those and the Triomes/Temples. I doubt you can or should fit Radiant Fountain.

In sum, I think you're approaching this as an even "5c throw in everything" build, but even 5 color decks should have a primary plan and then a 5c finish. I suspect this should be primarily a Bant Enchantments shell that can splash for the RB shrines and the 5c shrine. Because of that and the synergy with Calix and Champion, I'd also recommend swapping Eat to Extinction for Banishing Light.

I hope I've given good reasoning, but looking forward to what you do regardless!

abby315 I definitely appreciate the input. You're right on in that this is less planned out other than in spoilers I saw the shrines and wanted to build something. I expect this to be like any project in that there will be significant shaping and polishing as I get to play it within my local meta and find the cracks and flaws.

I went Triomes for the lands in part because as of right now the shocklands will rotate, but also because during our state lockdown I sold my collection to ensure we'd be ok on funds through any eventuality and I happen to have the triomes from all the Ikoria I've purchased and played. Radiant Fountain is definitely a placeholder as I like to build around a mana base of 24, and with only 20 triomes I needed something there. I expect shifts in the mana base and what I use to occur as I shape and polish the deck.

Banishing Light was definitely a consideration for the Eat to Extinction spot and I went with Eat only because I forgot instants can't remove a resolved Planeswalker before they activate an ability. I expect to see a good amount of Ugin played with his return to Standard and I wanted immediate interaction. Banishing Light is definitely where I'd end up for it's ability to control multiple cards in conjunction with Calix.

I will look into your recommendations and most likely make changes for the better. Thanks again

shrine decks are gonna be a thing and that's for sure. I will need to build a deck meant solely to beat shrines

Hey again how's this working for you? I've been working on my own shrines deck and find this deck really benefits from Fae of Wishes and a wishboard.

I found it allowed some of the situational stuff to be put into the board. I've noticed in my own testing that Sanctum of Stone Fangs is an extremely reliable wincon.

Shrine of Uro

This is the version I'm running right now if you want to check it out.

I hope you are having as much fun with this deck as I am regardless man. I feel like people underestimated shrines, and I am loving it.

I don't have all the pieces to run it properly on Arena and I'm still piecing it together for paper magic. However on Arena, the version I'm running is doing fairly well. I think it ends up surprising some people in terms of how quickly the Sanctums pile up to benefit me. The worst match-up I ran into was green stompy but I also drew poorly, kept a bad opening 5 after two mulligans, and was never able to recover so I'm not sure that is indicative of the normal match-up. I am greatly enjoying it thus far as I figured it would and can't wait to get the last few pieces to run it on Arena as I have it assembled here.

Yeah needing consistent draws is what caused me to try out my new setup, I wanted to ensure I had what I needed ASAP.

Have you found Destiny Spinner worth having? I had thought about including some myself but didnt have enough confidence in its usefulness.

With Destiny Spinner I like the early body that has some weight behind her at 2/3, the fact that she protects almost my entire deck from being countered, that she counts as an enchantment for her own ability, and to trigger the Champion and Archon. As a later game play she may not be as useful as early on but the counting as an enchantment always helps, especially if it leads to drawing with Champion or generating another Pegasus

Ah I had overlooked her enchantment type, that does make a big difference.

Having an early body is always nice, I had tinkered with Paradise Druid and Dryad of the Ilysian Grove for that reason as well as the mana fixing. I know the druid may not fit your style as it's not an enchantment but the dryad might be one to consider if you havent yet.

I had honestly completely forgotten about the Dryad, but in a five color deck that cares about enchantments it seems silly not be including it somewhere.

If you do want to find room for the dryad you could probably afford to cut a couple Sanctum of Fruitful Harvest and maybe a champion.

Do you think it works as a 2-of if I just drop one each of the Fruitful Harvest and Champion? Or should I try and go for three to see the Dryad more reliably?

You could try it with 2 and see but I feel like 3 is the minimum since it is also there for fixing your mana, seeing one mid to late game kind of defeats the purpose of having it.

I'm enjoying my shrine deck a lot. I originally ran the druids and dryads, but found cultivate to work wonders for manafixing.

I use arboreal grazer to try to get a second land on turn 1, drop a third land on turn two and cast cultivate to put a fourth land on the field and fifth land in hand, turn three drop fifth land and cast sanctum of all.

Standard 5-color jank without Omnath! I love it

VampiricJace this deck holds up really well against Omnath too. Granted I haven't played that match-up a ton but it is holding itself surprising well on arena right now. Only 28 matches tracked but still sitting at a 46% win rate

I think some more removal over the star lit mantel would be helpful.

Personally, I would screw the Calix, Destiny's Hand , and go for a Ugin, the Spirit Dragon . I think the final ability would be exceptional, especially with this deck.

Lol Ugin is good in a sideboard but Calix has more utility. He comes down more consistently and being able to use his 2nd ability as another Banishing Light is great.

Ugins ultimate takes too long to be consistent for shrines, especially with In Search of Greatness in the format.

Just my two cents as a fellow shrines player.