Hei Bai, Forest Guardian

Gameplan

Hei Bai is a 5-color Shrine tribal payoff: on ETB it tutors a Shrine straight to the battlefield, and its activated ability turns each legendary enchantment (Shrines and beyond) into an army of evasive Spirit tokens. You assemble a board of Shrines that grind out value every upkeep while protecting them, then convert that enchantment count into a lethal token swarm.

Key Cards

• Sanctum of All — The keystone Shrine that copies every other Shrine's upkeep trigger and tutors more Shrines.
• Honden of Life's Web — Generates its own tokens and stacks with Sanctum of All for explosive board development.
• Go-Shintai of Life's Origin — Recurs Shrines from the graveyard and pumps your Shrine triggers, the perfect engine partner.
• Sterling Grove — Protects your enchantments from removal and tutors any enchantment to the top of your library.
• Chromatic Lantern — Critical fixing so you can reliably hit WUBRG for Hei Bai's token-making ability.
• Smothering Tithe — A legendary-adjacent... rather a top-tier enchantment that floods you with Treasure to pay the rainbow activation.

Upgrade Path

Improve mana consistency first—add Cascading Cataracts, fetch-and-shock fixing, and Treasure makers like Smothering Tithe so the WUBRG activation is reliable. Layer in protection (Sterling Grove, Privileged Position, Heroic Intervention) since your whole plan dies to one enchantment wipe, and add recursion like Go-Shintai of Life's Origin and Replenish to rebuild. Finally, push the token finish with anthems and a fast mana base (Chromatic Lantern, Arcane Signet, Sol Ring) to activate Hei Bai multiple times per turn.