Requiting Hex
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 
CMC: 1
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 116
Oracle Text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may blight 1. (You may put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.) Destroy target creature with mana value 2 or less. If this spell's additional cost was paid, you gain 2 life.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- November 17, 2025
If a creature on the battlefield has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
Source: wotc - November 17, 2025
If the target creature is an illegal target as Requiting Hex tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't gain life even if the additional cost was paid.
Source: wotc
Price History
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