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Shrine Steward

Artifact Creature — Construct5 generic mana

Two archetypes almost never share a tutor, and this one bridges them by an accident of card-typing rather than any strategic overlap. Auras and Shrines have nothing to do with each other: one is the enchantment-based aggro glue of pump and evasion, the other a slow, mono-and-multi-color engine that accrues value at each upkeep. What links them is that both live on library-search effects too narrow to justify a card slot on their own. Bundling them onto a five-mana 3/2 body is the design compromise: a construct expensive enough that it will not warp either archetype's curve, cheap enough that the tutor is not purely a late-game luxury, and generic enough (a colorless artifact) that any deck running either card type can play it. The body is deliberately unremarkable so the fetch carries the value; a 3/2 for five is a rate you tolerate because you are paying for a card you specifically need, not for combat. Notice the tutor puts the card into your hand rather than onto the battlefield, which keeps it from combo-enabling a free Aura drop and preserves the tempo cost of actually casting whatever you found. It is a tool built for two homes that will never meet at the same table, stapled to a colorless chassis precisely so it can serve both without belonging to either.

Shrine Steward (neo)
NEO · #259common
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

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

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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