<p><strong>No, you can't use Bestow when you bring a creature with Bestow onto the battlefield without casting it.</strong></p>
<p>If you bring creatures on to the field without casting it, you can't pay the Bestow cost, and you can't enchant another creature that way.</p>
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<p>Bestow [cost]</p>
<p>You may <strong>cast</strong> this card by paying [cost] rather than its mana cost. If you chose to pay this spell’s bestow cost, it becomes an Aura enchantment and gains enchant creature. These effects last until one of two things happens: this spell has an illegal target as it resolves or the permanent this spell becomes, becomes unattached.</p>
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@ikegami Sure it is. "Paying a card’s bestow cost follows the rules for paying alternative costs in rules 601.2b and 601.2e–g."
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<p>If I use <a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Open%20the%20Vaults">Open the Vaults</a> and there is a Bestow enchantment creature in my graveyard, can I bring it onto the field as an aura? Or just as a creature?</p>

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Will Open the Vaults let me return Bestow creatures as Auras?
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# Will Open the Vaults let me return Bestow creatures as Auras?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-06-14)

If I use [Open the Vaults](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Open%20the%20Vaults) and there is a Bestow enchantment creature in my graveyard, can I bring it onto the field as an aura? Or just as a creature?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2015-06-14. Score: 5

**No, you can't use Bestow when you bring a creature with Bestow onto the battlefield without casting it.**

If you bring creatures on to the field without casting it, you can't pay the Bestow cost, and you can't enchant another creature that way.

> Bestow [cost]
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> You may **cast** this card by paying [cost] rather than its mana cost. If you chose to pay this spell’s bestow cost, it becomes an Aura enchantment and gains enchant creature. These effects last until one of two things happens: this spell has an illegal target as it resolves or the permanent this spell becomes, becomes unattached.

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: @ikegami Sure it is. "Paying a card’s bestow cost follows the rules for paying alternative costs in rules 601.2b and 601.2e–g."  

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