And still you will not have suffered enough." Greven il-Vec, to Gerrard Number 64 Language English Legal Formats Commander, Legacy, Vintage Not Legal Formats Alchemy, Brawl, Competitive Brawl, Historic, Modern, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard, Timeless Rulings (10/4/2004) The life payment is part of the cost to cast Hatred, so it is lost if this spell is countered.
Note that the film would have been a mirror image of the printing plate, which means it would actually have been a positive image and therefore easy to engrave the text in the correct orientation
The flavour text we get on Volcanic Spite in this set makes up around 80-90% of the total lore, and its so obscure that up until this set I had no reason to have an entry for it in MtG-Multiverse up until now
Restricted Office // Lecture Hall The best thing about playing restrictive sweepers is that you get to play around them while your opponents probably wont