Borrowed Hostility (INR #396) MTG

Borrowed Hostility is a common printing from Innistrad Remastered (INR #396), a Instant. Illustrated by Volkan Baǵa.

Card 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.

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July 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).
July 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.
July 13, 2016 — You can’t choose any one mode multiple times.
July 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.
July 13, 2016 — Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.
July 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.
July 13, 2016 — Additional costs don’t affect a spell’s mana value.