Celestial Archon - Magic the Gathering

Lucky Archon number 7!

A new week and five new preview cards, thank you Wizards. These are the Enchantment Creatures they have been teasing. Love the card frame by the way, so sparkly! The mechanic is one that's been sitting in the Magic pipeline for awhile, creatures that can enchant creatures. It was only a matter of time before this mechanic was fully released, it was only waiting for the right set. Several things I like already. The enchantment creature actually feels like both an enchantment and a creature. The first one we got from Future Sight, Lucent Liminid, was just a flyer with the type slapped on. This though actually has an enchantment like effect to justify the typing.

Another thing. I'm not certain I'm reading this correctly, but it seems that when the creature this is attached to is destroyed, this just becomes its creature form instead. This is a very good move. This will make people not afraid of using the bestow effect only for the enchanted creature to get nerfed, since the Aura will just become another creature.

I wonder if the mechanic could even be used to cheat high cost creatures into play. Design a creature with a lower bestow cost than its creature cost, so it comes into play attached to a creature. Then if the enchanted creature gets killed, your enchantment creature will become the high cost creature, with you spending less mana to get it. I can tell though that if there are plans to use the mechanic like that, it won't be in this set. Similar to bloodrush, the enchant effect seems to be gaining the creatures power and toughness and all effects they have. An Aura that gives say +5/+5 won't be a cheap card, so I doubt with this formula we'll be seeing high cost creatures with lower bestow costs, but we'll see.

I also wonder if the five gods of Theros are going to have bestow effects. Then again, I wonder if all the enchantment creatures will have bestow effects. My answers: Probably yes on both counts. The gods are definitely going to be mythic rare though, so we might see some more unique executions in their bestow effects. Also, will their weapons be enchantment artifacts? How will that work? So many questions, I can't wait!