Monastery Swiftspear

one red mana Creature — Human MonkPower and toughness1/2

Haste

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

She focused her mind on the volcano's fury, and hers erupted in kind.

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Monastery Swiftspear rulings

2021-03-19
An ability that triggers when a player casts a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
2014-09-20
Any spell you cast that doesn't have the type creature will cause prowess to trigger. If a spell has multiple types, and one of those types is creature (such as an artifact creature), casting it won't cause prowess to trigger. Playing a land also won't cause prowess to trigger.
2014-09-20
Prowess goes on the stack on top of the spell that caused it to trigger. It will resolve before that spell.
2014-09-20
Once it triggers, prowess isn't connected to the spell that caused it to trigger. If that spell is countered, prowess will still resolve.

Monastery Swiftspear keyword rules

Prowess Rule 702.108

Prowess is a triggered ability. “Prowess” means “Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.”

If a creature has multiple instances of prowess, each triggers separately.

Haste Rule 702.10

Haste is a static ability.

If a creature has haste, it can attack even if it hasn’t been controlled by its controller continuously since their most recent turn began. (See rule .)

If a creature has haste, its controller can activate its activated abilities whose cost includes the tap symbol or the untap symbol even if that creature hasn’t been controlled by that player continuously since their most recent turn began. (See rule .)

Multiple instances of haste on the same creature are redundant.