Borrowed Malevolence
- Mana cost
- {B}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad Remastered #100 (common)
Escalate {2} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or both —
• Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
• Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Borrowed Malevolence has 2 printings, first in Eldritch Moon (2016). EDHREC ranks it #27,652 among Commander cards. It appears most in Elim Garak, Simple Tailor decks (6 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 Malevolence most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Elim Garak, Simple Tailor: 6 decks
- Splinter, Hamato Yoshi: 1 decks
Often played with Borrowed Malevolence
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : You can’t choose any one mode multiple times.
- : 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.
- : Additional costs don’t affect a spell’s mana value.
- : 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).
- : Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.