Kestia, the Cultivator

Printings

  • Commander 2018 (C18)#42
  • Treasure Chest (PZ2)#70699

Kestia, the Cultivator

Card Information

Type: Legendary Enchantment Creature — Nymph

Mana Cost: 1Green manaWhite manaBlue mana

CMC: 4

Part of the Reserved List: No

Color Identity: Mana symbol for GMana symbol for UMana symbol for W

Set: Commander 2018 (C18)

Rarity: Mythic

Collector Number: 42

Oracle Text

Bestow {3}{G}{W}{U} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.) Enchanted creature gets +4/+4. Whenever an enchanted creature or enchantment creature you control attacks, draw a card.

Keywords

Bestow

Format Legalities

duel(Legal)
brawl(Not Legal)
penny(Not Legal)
predh(Not Legal)
future(Not Legal)
legacy(Legal)
modern(Not Legal)
pauper(Not Legal)
alchemy(Not Legal)
pioneer(Not Legal)
vintage(Legal)
historic(Not Legal)
standard(Not Legal)
timeless(Not Legal)
commander(Legal)
gladiator(Not Legal)
oldschool(Not Legal)
premodern(Not Legal)
oathbreaker(Legal)
standardbrawl(Not Legal)
paupercommander(Not Legal)

Card Rulings

  1. July 13, 2018

    If a permanent with bestow enters the battlefield by any method other than being cast, it will be an enchantment creature. You can't choose to pay the bestow cost and have it become an Aura.

    Source: wotc
  2. July 13, 2018

    If multiple enchanted or enchantment creatures you control attack, you draw that many cards.

    Source: wotc
  3. July 13, 2018

    A spell with bestow is either a creature spell or an Aura spell. It's never both. Similarly, a permanent with bestow is either a creature or an Aura, but not both.

    Source: wotc
  4. July 13, 2018

    Unlike other Aura spells, an Aura spell with bestow still resolves if its target is illegal. Instead of entering the battlefield as an Aura, the effect making it an Aura spell ends, it loses enchant creature, and it resolves and enters the battlefield as an enchantment creature.

    Source: wotc
  5. July 13, 2018

    The phrase "you control" applies to both "enchanted creature" and "enchantment creature." That is, Kestia's ability triggers when an enchanted creature you control attacks, not any player's enchanted creature.

    Source: wotc
  6. July 13, 2018

    Bestow is an alternative cost to cast the spell with bestow. It can't be combined with other alternative costs, such as casting a spell "without paying its mana cost."

    Source: wotc
  7. July 13, 2018

    Unlike other Auras, an Aura with bestow isn't put into its owner's graveyard if the enchanted creature leaves the battlefield or becomes an illegal creature for the Aura to enchant. Rather, the effect making it an Aura ends, it loses enchant creature, and it remains on the battlefield as an enchantment creature. It can attack (and its abilities can be activated, if it has any) on the turn it becomes unattached if it's been under your control continuously, even as an Aura, since your most recent turn began.

    Source: wotc
  8. July 13, 2018

    If an enchanted enchantment creature attacks, you draw only one card for it.

    Source: wotc
  9. July 13, 2018

    To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a bestow cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

    Source: wotc
  10. July 13, 2018

    Auras attached to a creature don't become tapped when the creature becomes tapped. Except in some rare cases, an Aura with bestow remains untapped when it becomes unattached and becomes a creature.

    Source: wotc

Price History

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