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◇ Catalog #3

Celestial Archon

ths·#3·rare·foil

Illus. Matt Stewart

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Sep '13

13 yr ago

Value

$0.23+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $0.24 · low $0.22

NM$0.23

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$0.21–$0.24modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $0.24low $0.02range 1100.0%n 49

Where to buy / sell

TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #12,088 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.23

Nonfoil$0.19

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.

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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

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $0.23. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.02 and $0.24 across 49 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from THS — the lineup includes Foil and 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 #3 of *Theros*, the set that shipped alongside the September 2013 Theros release.

Card type: Enchantment Creature — Archon, color identity white, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. 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.