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Borrowed Malevolence

{B}

Instant

EMNEldritch Moon#82common
Foil
Border
black
Frame
2015
Pull rate
about 1 per booster–1 in 742
Illustrator
Volkan Baǵa
Found in
Eldritch Moon MTGO Redemption · Eldritch Moon MTGO Redemption Foil · 3 more
Printings2
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlLegal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
PennyLegal
PioneerLegal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessLegal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
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.
Escalate

Plays as: Combat Trick · Modal Spell

Market · per finishspark updated 12h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil-16.7%
$0.05
$0.01 low$0.00 gap
Foil+0.0%
$0.30
$0.10 low$0.02 gap
Cheapest playable copy$0.05· across 2 printings

Rulings

7 · latest Jul 13, 2016 · one tap opens all
  • WotCJul 13, 2016

    Additional costs don’t affect a spell’s mana value.

  • WotCJul 13, 2016

    Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.

  • WotCJul 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.

  • WotCJul 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.

  • WotCJul 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).

  • WotCJul 13, 2016

    You can’t choose any one mode multiple times.

  • WotCJul 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.