Now, with Avatar: The Last Airbender , Shrines decks are getting a much needed boost with some powerful new cards
These cards are locked: 4 Cauldron Familiar 4 Priest of Forgotten Gods 4 Mayhem Devil 2 Scrapheap Scrounger 2 Woe Strider 4 Claim the Firstborn 4 Witchs Oven 4 Blood Crypt Of course, things like Priest of Forgotten Gods and Claim the Firstborn could be much weaker in certain metagames
The player can do it by paying its mana cost
While not the best stat boost, it is very useful in decks that want to go wide
Icon of Ancestry, for example, has the same +1/+1 typal bonus as Vanquisher's Banner, but for three mana it allows you to search the top three cards of your library for a Goblin to put into your hand
There is no downside for an Equipment being tapped