How do enchantment creatures work?
Asked by spyguy144 5 years ago
When playing an enchantment creature, if you cast it for the bestow cost does it become attached to the creature that is enchanted or does it function as its own creature?
Like if an enchanment creature with 3/3 and if it is bestowed it gives +3/3 to the enchanted creature. If you were to cast it for its bestow cost on a 1/1 creature would you then have a 4/4 creature and a 3/3 creature or just a 4/4 creature?
So if the enchanted creature dies the enchantment creature stays on the battlefield as a creature?
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
It's just an aura, not a separate creature.
When you cast a spell with bestow using the bestow cost (example: Nylea's Emissary), it's an aura spell that will enter the battlefield enchanting the creature you chose to target. It isn't a creature and just gives its bonus to the creature it's enchanting.
A special rule for bestow is that if the aura becomes unattached from the creature it's enchanting (usually because that creature left the battlefield for some reason) then the aura will turn back into a creature and stay on the battlefield.
March 29, 2020 9:19 p.m.