Withering Boon

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life. Counter target creature spell.{flavor}I studied your ways, devoting my existence to you. I strove to be your vassal, on the physical plain. To build mountains of bodies in your honor! To extinguish all life! And in my universe, this I achieved! But it gave me no satisfaction...in succeeding, I lost all purpose. - The Lich