Hatred

Instant, 3BB (5)
As an additional cost to cast Hatred, pay X life.

Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.¹
"I will flay the skin from your flesh and the flesh from your bones and scrape your bones dry. And still you will not have suffered enough." -Greven il-Vec, to Gerrard
Illus. Brom

Gatherer Card Rulings [Nov 2009]

• 10/4/2004: The life payment is part of the cost to cast Hatred, so it is lost if this spell is countered.

Format Legality	Legal in Vintage, Legacy Banned in Extended, Standard, MTGO Classic
Printings (1/6)	Exodus (Rare)