Detective's Phoenix magic the gathering card art
Modern Horizons 3 (mh3)
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Detective's Phoenix
2
mountain

Enchantment Creature — Phoenix

Bestow—mountain, Collect evidence 6. (To pay this bestow cost, pay mountain and exile cards with total mana value 6 or greater from your graveyard.)

Flying, haste

Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and haste.

You may cast this card from your graveyard using its bestow ability.

Illustrated by Deruchenko Alexander
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Legalities
Not Legal
standard
Legal
historic
Not Legal
pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Not Legal
pauper
Legal
vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
brawl
Not Legal
alchemy
Rulings
If you can't exile enough cards to meet or exceed the required mana value, you can't choose to collect evidence at all.
2024-06-07wotc
Once you've announced that you're casting a spell, players can't take actions until you've finished doing so. Notably, opponents can't try to remove cards from your graveyard to stop you from collecting evidence.
2024-06-07wotc
On the stack, a spell with bestow is either a creature spell or an Aura spell. It's never both, although it's an enchantment spell in either case.
2024-06-07wotc
Unlike other Aura spells, an Aura spell with bestow isn't countered if its target is illegal as it begins to resolve. Rather, the effect making it an Aura spell ends, it loses enchant creature, it returns to being an enchantment creature spell, and it resolves and enters the battlefield as an enchantment creature.
2024-06-07wotc
Unlike other Auras, an Aura with bestow isn't put into its owner's graveyard if it becomes unattached. 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 {T} 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.
2024-06-07wotc
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.
2024-06-07wotc
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.
2024-06-07wotc


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