name: Contagion
originalText: You may pay 1 life and remove a black card in your hand from the game instead of paying Contagion's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Put two -2/-1 counters, distributed any way you choose, on any number of target creatures.
printings: ALL, DKM, MB2, ME1, PRM, WC97
text: You may pay 1 life and exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.\nDistribute two -2/-1 counters among one or two target creatures.