Skill Borrower
Shards of Alara 56 • rare
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Collector number
- 56
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Shelly Wan
- Market price
- $0.32
What it does
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
As long as the top card of your library is an artifact or creature card, this creature has all activated abilities of that card. (If any of the abilities use that card's name, use this creature's name instead.)
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Skill Borrower was released in 2008 as part of the Shards of Alara set, a pivotal expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game that introduced the concept of three-colored planes. Within the game's lore, the card represents the intellectual curiosity and resourcefulness found within the Esper shard, an artifact-rich civilization obsessed with the integration of magical ether into living tissue to achieve perfection.
The card's illustration was created by artist Christopher Moeller, who captured the creature's eerie, synthetic aesthetic through sharp, crystalline visuals and a muted, metallic color palette. Designed as a blue creature capable of adopting the activated abilities of the top card of its controller's library, the card has remained a subject of interest in combo-oriented formats due to its unique potential to mirror powerful effects from other cards.
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