Borrowed Hostility
- Mana cost
- {R}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Innistrad Remastered #146 (common)
- Price
- $0.29 USD
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.
Borrowed Hostility has 5 printings, first in Eldritch Moon (2016). EDHREC ranks it #13,404 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ant-Man, Elusive Avenger decks (246 on EDHREC). It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Borrowed Hostility most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ant-Man, Elusive Avenger: 246 decks
- Vincent, Vengeful Atoner: 210 decks
- Cleon, Merry Champion: 186 decks
- Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest: 144 decks
- Rosnakht, Heir of Rohgahh: 117 decks
- Captain Ripley Vance: 46 decks
- Iron Fist, Living Weapon: 17 decks
- Mai, Jaded Edge: 5 decks
Often played with Borrowed Hostility
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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).
- : 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.
- : Additional costs don’t affect a spell’s mana value.
- : 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.
- : You can’t choose any one mode multiple times.
- : Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.
- : 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.