▸Grind a single opponent out then repeat once others are exhausted by control elements
Archetypes
Mill — The commander provides a free recurring mill trigger that you scale with doublers and dedicated mill spells.
Control — Mono-blue counters, bounce, and card draw protect your slow engine until libraries run dry.
Enchantress/Shrines (light) — You can run the handful of blue enchantment payoffs and Honden, though true Shrine synergy needs the 5-color Go-Shintai of Life's Origin instead.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay . 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.)
A mono-blue mill and control deck that uses Go-Shintai's repeatable end-step mill as a slow, recurring clock while you stall the board with counterspells and card draw. Realistically the Shrine subtheme is thin in mono-blue, so you lean on dedicated mill payoffs and doublers to actually grind opponents out. Hold up interaction, protect your engine, and convert incremental mill into empty libraries.
Cheap, evasive 2-mana commander that's hard to profitably remove and rebuilds cheaply
Mono-blue gives access to the best counterspells, card advantage, and tutors in the format
Mill scales hard with doublers and is resilient to graveyard-hate-free metas
Flying body can chip in or block early fliers while you set up
Only two blue Shrines exist (Go-Shintai and Honden of Seeing Winds), so the 'Shrine tribal' payoff is almost nonexistent
Base mill of 1-2 cards per turn is painfully slow without dedicated enablers
Single-target mill struggles in 3-4 player games where you must pick one foe
Vulnerable to graveyard recursion, Eldrazi shuffle effects, and lifegain-fueled libraries
No interaction with creature-based aggro beyond counters and a 2/2 flier
Legendary Enchantment Creature — Shrine
. When you do, target player mills X cards, where X is the number of