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◇ Catalog #8

Celestial Archon

DIGITAL ONLY

pio·#8·uncommon·nonfoil

Illus. Matt Stewart

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Dec '24

1 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #12,088 · Fringe play

Variants

Nonfoil

Gameplay

Enchantment Creature — Archon

Bestow {5}{W}{W} (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.) Flying, first strike Enchanted creature gets +4/+4 and has flying and first strike.

4/4

Legalities

tlrnot legal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 7

2018-07-13wotc

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."

2018-07-13wotc

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.

2018-07-13wotc

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.

Context

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from PIO — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #8 of *Pioneer Masters*, the set that shipped alongside the December 2024 Pioneer Masters release.

Card type: Enchantment Creature — Archon, color identity white, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {3}{W}{W} (5 converted). Keyword abilities: Flying, First strike, and Bestow.

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #12,088 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Matt Stewart. Rarix catalogs 988 other cards credited to this artist.