­Consume Spirit + Ineriande Boundskeeper

Modern-wording reprint of Drain Life. (The functional difference is that you can gain more life than the target has. This minor improvement is well worth the reduced complexity.)

And... a modular bear.

So, a lifelink bear? Damage into counters instead of into life? That might work. Let's try it.

Making a single creature huge is kinda a black thing? It's mostly a green thing. Spreading them out would be a white thing; but the damage really isn't. I mean, countable damage is red.

This could be a spell? Seems good.

So now this costs more than C1X, being CDX. So can it be an instant? Why not. This is gonna be a first-pick in limited. It's actual good removal, with an upside. So drat it all, it probably has to be rare.

Ah... I was going to comment that this should say 'deal X damage to up to one target creature', so you can fire this off without killing one of your own creatures if your opponent doesn't have something to kill. But this is one of Vitenka's designs. The missing 'up to one' part is understood.

By the way, nice spell. I might have to steal it some day.

Mmm, it was actually a "Didn't think of it" rather than a templating thing. I was thinking of this as a kill-spell with upside. But sure, the +1 counters could be the desired use, and the kill part an upside.

Plus the symmetry of "X to up to 1, 1 to up to X" is pleasing. Changed.