Lifening Elemental is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Lifelink Splice onto instant or sorcery(As you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's abilities to that spell. It's still an instant or sorcery spell.)
How it works : Lifening Elemental
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
You reveal all cards you intend to splice at the same time. Each individual card can be spliced only once onto any one spell, although multiple cards with the same name may be spliced onto one spell.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If a spell is copied, choices made while casting it are copied, so the copy will have the same abilities spliced onto it as the original.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If all of the spell’s targets are illegal when the spell tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen, including those from cards spliced onto it.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If the spell is countered or otherwise fail to resolve, any cards you spliced onto it remain in your hand.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Splicing Lifening Elemental onto an instant or sorcery will give it lifelink. It won’t make that instant or sorcery spell a creature spell, nor give it a power or toughness.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
Playtest cards aren’t legal for play in any tournament format other than Mystery Booster Limited formats. On the other hand, we expect they will spice up a wide variety of non-tournament games (as long as everyone’s on the same page about using them!).
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #7· Wizards of the Coast
Playtest cards use a modified version of game symbols, such as
and 
. These modified symbols should be treated as the standard symbols during play.No other card is named in this ruling.
- #8· Wizards of the Coast
For many playtest cards, you’ll need to make a generous assumption that basic game rules would be updated to allow them to work. The Mystery Booster 2 Playtest Card Notes section (reproduced here in individual Gatherer rulings) provides guidance for fitting these cards into the existing rules structure.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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