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Borrowed Hostility

Card Name

Borrowed Hostility

Mana Cost

Type

Instant

Rarity

Common

rules Text

Escalate
3
 (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)Choose one or both —• Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.• Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Legal Formats

Commander, Explorer, Legacy, Modern, Pauper, Pioneer, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Historic, Standard

Rulings

(7/13/2016)
You choose all of your modes at once. You can't wait to perform one mode's actions and then decide to choose more modes.
(7/13/2016)
You can't choose any one mode multiple times.
(7/13/2016)
If two of the chosen modes of an escalate spell target a creature, you may choose the same creature for each mode's target, or choose different creatures. The same is true if the chosen modes target a player (or opponent).
(7/13/2016)
If one target of an escalate spell becomes illegal, the other targets will still be affected. If all of the targets become illegal, the spell won't resolve.
(7/13/2016)
Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.
(7/13/2016)
If an effect allows you to cast a spell that has escalate without paying its mana cost, you pay escalate costs for that spell if you choose more than one mode.
(7/13/2016)
Additional costs don't affect a spell's mana value.