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Bestow reminds me a lot of cipher. It's really to powerful for it's own good; we just end up with overpriced spells.

Playing Theros limited has shown me just how incredible Bestow creatures can be, with me constantly wanting either more dudes or more Heroic Triggers. So, I am glad they didn't make the Bestow cost any lower on the commons and uncommons. But it is sad that there's a possibility of Bestow not making a splash in Constructed, as with Cipher.

This guy's kinda neat because he's not a dead draw lategame and he's an alright blocker early game. Deathtouch is a generally useful effect at every stage of play.

Seems like a great card. Deathtouch is effectively pseudo-removal in limited, given how scarce removal is in general, so getting a card that effectively gives you two removal spells is just gravy.

Imagine the following - you play out some cheap creature that's not a good beater, but has a useful ETB - like Omenspeaker, the 1/3 for 1U that scries 2 when it enters the battlefield. Enchant it with Eidolon, and trade it for some big bad beasty. Get the Eidolon as a creature, then trade that for some big bad beasty.

It's not card advantage, but it does act as 2 pseudo-removal cards. And worst case scenario, you just play it for 2 and have it act as 1 pseudo-removal spell.

Or there's always the option of enchanting a big fat trampler with this, so that mitigating the damage it deals becomes very, very difficult.

The best target for the enchant is a pinger, the second best a creature with first strike, and the third best a trampler. All in all it's ok in limited. You don't want too many of those, but a few are like some sort of very slow edicts. The enchantment part is very expensive, and is a bit wasted on vanilla or evasion creatures, but can be good on others. Outside limited it's too weak to be of use outside casual decks.

This ought to be a two-for-one if you play it right. Either that, or it's a really good evasive creature. In reality, however, a 1/1 with deathtouch still isn't going to be winning you many games. There's a reason WotC felt comfortable printing a 1/1 with deathtouch for B and then, in this set, a 1/1 for G with deathtouch. Still, it's good in a Limited format that has very little removal.

Return the slab!!!!

Bestowing this will almost always result in a 2-4-1. Just watch out for first strike.

Wow. The Bestow costs are really high in general, but this is just ridiculous.

Bow of Nylea has to say "attacking creatures have deathtouch." This finally is a card (since Nightshade Peddler) that upgrades Izzet Statiscaster to Visara, the Dreadful, although it's very expensive. Compare Basilisk Collar.

It's a shame Bestow has been relegated to the "cool but expensive" pile in its entirety. It'll never see constructed play, but limited should, at the very least, be interesting.

@Everyone comparing bestow to cipher

Bestow isn't overcosted, it is literally costed. This card is the black half of Gift of the Deity, which has the same cost as the bestow and is the only enchantment that gives deathtouch as a keyword. If we assume that the green half of the Gift is worth half the mana cost (2.5), that means the body of the Eidolon is the green half and the half a mana leftover is the built in 2-for-1.

You can see it in other cards as well. Nimbus Naiad's bestow is the same as paying for a Wind Drake and a Spectral Flight. The more competitively costed Nighthowler is 3 cmc normally (Mortivore without regen) and bestows for the same price as a Bonehoard, which is reasonable if you assume that the Bonehoard will only ever be equipped once or twice a game.

Cipher is not the same. Last Thoughts sits somewhere between Curiosity and Divination. It ought to cost more than Curiosity because it has a lot more upside in decks that don't specifically care about enchantments but probably shouldn't cost more than Divination because Curiosity doesn't. I'd personally cost it at three, so as not to give too much to Hexproof but there could be argument made to bring it down to two. Four mana basically makes no sense, though.

To much of a limited beast to be anything less than 3/5 in my opinion. I've held off a monsterous Hundred-Handed One bestowed with a Hopeful Eidolon. With 3 of these.

Not spectacular, but in a good B/W enchantment deck, it can be very useful. 2 mana for a creature and another enchantment to fuel Ethereal Armor and Sphere of Safety is already good. The bestow is pure gravy, because you have to use more than one removal spell to kill him, one to kill the thing he's on, and another to kill him. Apart from enchantment decks, though, he's only worth playing if you're desperately in need of deathtouch.

The bestow cost is overcosted by 3.
Had this been a mythic, it's bestow cost would have been B and it's power would have been 2.

I would have loved this as a one-drop.

Green had Wasteland Viper and got Sedge Scorpion in this block,
so since black had Typhoid Rats, it could have gotten this for instead.

It wouldn't be strictly better either, since aside from the different creature type, it can also be targeted by enchantment removal.

As a two-drop, it's still decent in limited. But it won't be relevant in constructed unfortunately...

HELLO?????? DEATHTOUCH

Bonkers common for Limited; don't expect to see one of these picked any later than fifth.

Excellent card that basically gives you TWO deathouch creatures. It's a little high, but overall a decent card. As for the people complaining about this not being a one drop, we already have Pharika's Chosen