Gnarled Scarhide 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
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.) This creature can't block. Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and can't block.
How it works : Gnarled Scarhide
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
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
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.
- #4· 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.
- #5· 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.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
You still control the Aura, even if it's enchanting a creature controlled by another player.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #7· Wizards of the Coast
If the enchanted creature leaves the battlefield, the Aura stops being an Aura and remains on the battlefield. Control of that permanent doesn't change; you'll control the resulting enchantment creature.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #8· Wizards of the Coast
Similarly, if you cast an Aura spell with bestow targeting a creature controlled by another player, and that creature is an illegal target when the spell tries to resolve, it will finish resolving as an enchantment creature spell. It will enter the battlefield under your control.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Sethron, Hurloon General + Cloudstone Curio + Ragemonger + Gnarled Scarhide
- 1Cast Gnarled Scarhide by paying
due to Ragemonger. - 2When Gnarled Scarhide enters the battlefield, Sethron and Cloudstone Curio trigger.
- 3Resolve the Cloudstone Curio trigger, choosing to return nothing to your hand.
- 4Resolve the Sethron trigger, creating a 2/3 Minotaur creature token.
- 5When the Minotaur token enters the battlefield, Cloudstone Curio triggers, returning Gnarled Scarhide to your hand from the battlefield.
- 6Repeat.
Sethron, Hurloon General + Cloudstone Curio + Gnarled Scarhide + Phyrexian Altar
- 1Cast Gnarled Scarhide by paying .
- 2Gnarled Scarhide enters the battlefield, triggering Cloudstone Curio and Sethron.
- 3Resolve the Cloudstone Curio trigger, choosing to return nothing from the battlefield to your hand.
- 4Resolve the Sethron trigger, creating a 2/2 Minotaur creature token.
- 5The Minotaur enters the battlefield, triggering Cloudstone Curio, returning Gnarled Scarhide from the battlefield to your hand.
- 6Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the Minotaur token, adding .
- 7Repeat.
Tatsunari, Toad Rider + Carnival of Souls + Cloudstone Curio + Dockside Chef
- 1Cast Dockside Chef by paying .
- 2Tatsunari triggers, creating a 3/3 Keimi legendary creature token.
- 3Keimi enters the battlefield, triggering Cloudstone Curio and Carnival of Souls.
- 4Resolve the Cloudstone Curio trigger, returning nothing from the battlefield to your hand.
- 5Resolve the Carnival of Souls trigger, causing you to lose 1 life and add .
- 6Dockside Chef enters the battlefield, triggering Cloudstone Curio and Carnival of Souls.
- 7Resolve the Cloudstone Curio trigger, returning Gnarled Scarhide from the battlefield to your hand.
- 8Resolve the Carnival of Souls trigger, causing you to lose 1 life and add .
Tatsunari, Toad Rider + Carnival of Souls + Cloudstone Curio + Hateful Eidolon
- 1Cast Hateful Eidolon by paying .
- 2Tatsunari triggers, creating a 3/3 Keimi legendary creature token.
- 3Keimi enters the battlefield, triggering Cloudstone Curio and Carnival of Souls.
- 4Resolve the Cloudstone Curio trigger, returning nothing from the battlefield to your hand.
- 5Resolve the Carnival of Souls trigger, causing you to lose 1 life and add .
- 6Hateful Eidolon enters the battlefield, triggering Cloudstone Curio and Carnival of Souls.
- 7Resolve the Cloudstone Curio trigger, returning Gnarled Scarhide from the battlefield to your hand.
- 8Resolve the Carnival of Souls trigger, causing you to lose 1 life and add .
Ashiok's Reaper + Mortuary + Phyrexian Altar + Gnarled Scarhide
- 1Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Gnarled Scarhide, adding .
- 2When Gnarled Scarhide dies, Mortuary and Ashiok's Reaper trigger.
- 3Resolve the Mortuary trigger, putting Gnarled Scarhide on top of your library from your graveyard.
- 4Resolve the Ashiok's Render trigger, causing you to draw Gnarled Scarhide from your library.
- 5Cast Gnarled Scarhide by paying .
- 6Repeat.
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