Boon Satyr is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Flash Bestow(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.) Enchanted creature gets +4/+2.
Complete guide
Boon Satyr is a versatile threat that highlights the tactical depth of the Bestow mechanic. Whether played as a surprise blocker or an empowering Aura, its Flash ability ensures your opponent is never truly safe.
What it Does
Boon Satyr has two modes: a 4/2 Enchantment Creature or an Aura spell that grants a creature +4/+2. By paying the Bestow cost, it becomes an Aura; otherwise, it is a creature. Thanks to Flash, you can cast it at any time you could cast an instant, regardless of which mode you choose.
How it Resolves Step by Step
When you cast Boon Satyr for its Bestow cost, you choose a target creature. If that target is removed before the spell resolves, Boon Satyr does not go to the graveyard like a normal Aura. Instead, it stops being an Aura spell and enters the battlefield as an Enchantment Creature. If it successfully attaches, it provides a power and toughness boost until the creature leaves the battlefield, at which point Boon Satyr falls off and remains on the battlefield as a creature.
Common Mistakes
A common point of confusion is how Bestow interacts with 'enters the battlefield' effects. If Boon Satyr enters via a spell like Reanimate, you cannot choose to pay the Bestow cost; it must enter as a creature. Additionally, the mana value of the spell is always 3, even if you paid the Bestow cost of 5 mana.
When to Play It
Use the Bestow mode during your opponent's combat step to surprise them with a much larger blocker, or cast it at the end of their turn as a creature to avoid sorcery-speed removal and prepare for an attack on your turn.
Interaction examples
Sakura-Tribe ElderYou cast Boon Satyr for its Bestow cost targeting Sakura-Tribe Elder. In response, you sacrifice the Elder to find a land. Because the target is gone, Boon Satyr's Bestow effect ends while it is still on the stack. It resolves as a 4/2 Enchantment Creature instead of being countered by rules.
Solemn SimulacrumYou have Boon Satyr attached to Solemn Simulacrum. Your opponent destroys the Simulacrum with a spell. Because of the Bestow rules, Boon Satyr immediately becomes an Enchantment Creature on the battlefield. It does not suffer from summoning sickness if you have controlled the Aura since the beginning of your turn.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Boon Satyr
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
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.”
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a bestow cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
A spell with bestow is either a creature spell or an Aura spell. It's never both. Similarly, a permanent with bestow is either a creature or an Aura, but not both.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Unlike other Auras, an Aura with bestow isn't put into its owner's graveyard if the enchanted creature leaves the battlefield or becomes an illegal creature for the Aura to enchant. 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 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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #7· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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