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"Find me cards equivalent to: Skill Borrower"

Equivalent to Skill Borrower (Artifact Creature — Human Wizard, color: U, similar abilities):
1. Xerox Operator (Unfinity, blue, similar top card interaction)
2. Future Sight (blue enchantment; plays top card revealed)
3. Magus of the Future (blue, lets you play from the top, similar “top card revealed”)
4. Spellbinder (artifact, blue identity, imprints cards and gets abilities)
5. Grenzo, Havoc Raiser (not artifact or blue, but similar top-deck manipulation—mostly used to illustrate the rarity of this effect)


Reason: Very few cards have Skill Borrower’s exact effect (copying abilities from top of library), but the above cards interact with the top of your library or copy abilities while keeping the color and/or artifact creature identity, where possible. Skill Borrower remains unique for granting activated abilities from the top card.

Found Cards

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Future Sight

Grenzo, Havoc Raiser

Magus of the Future

Skill Borrower

Spellbinder

Future Sight #2700 Enchantment

Variations: v1 v2
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Cost:
Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 5
Power/Toughness: /
Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Rules

  • If the top card of your library changes while you're casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability (most likely because that top card is the card you're playing), the new top card won't be revealed until you finish doing so.
  • If the top card of your library is a land, you may play that land only if you have any available land plays.
  • The top card of your library isn't in your hand, so you can't suspend it, cycle it, or activate any of its abilities.
  • You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions for the top card of your library and pay its costs. If the card has alternative or additional costs, you may pay those. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom 2.99 USD / 3.49 USD
    Cardmarket / 3.26 EUR 1.94 EUR
    Manapool / 2.68 USD 2.7 USD
    Tcgplayer 3.21 USD / 3.65 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Competitivebrawl Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.

    Grenzo, Havoc Raiser #M3C-213 Legendary Creature — Goblin Rogue

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    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: 2/2
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Goblin
  • Rogue
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Goad

    Rules

  • Casting the exiled card follows the normal rules for casting that card. You must pay its costs, and you must follow all applicable timing rules. For example, if you exile a creature card this way, you must wait until your main phase to cast it.
  • If you don't cast the card, it will remain in exile.
  • If you exile a land card this way, you can't play it.
  • The card exiled by the second mode is exiled face up.
  • Attacking with a goaded creature doesn't cause it to stop being goaded. If there is an additional combat phase that turn, or if another player gains control of it before it stops being goaded, it must attack again if able.
  • Being goaded isn't an ability the creature has. Once it's been goaded, it must attack as detailed above even if it loses all abilities.
  • If a creature you control has been goaded by multiple opponents, it must attack one of your opponents that hasn't goaded it, as that fulfills the maximum number of goad requirements. If a creature you control has been goaded by each of your opponents, the creature must attack an opponent (rather than a planeswalker or battle), but you choose which opponent it attacks.
  • If the creature doesn't meet any of the above exceptions and can attack, it must attack a player other than the controller of the spell or ability that goaded it if able. If the creature can't attack any of those players but could otherwise attack, it must attack a planeswalker an opponent controls, a battle an opponent controls, or a player who goaded it.
  • If, during a player's declare attackers step, a creature that player controls that's been goaded is tapped, is affected by a spell or ability that says it can't attack, or hasn't been under that player's control continuously since the turn began (and doesn't have haste), then it doesn't attack. If there's a cost associated with having a creature attack a player, its controller isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack that player.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Manapool 0.21 USD
    Cardmarket 0.3 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.37 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Competitivebrawl Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, choose one — • Goad target creature that player controls. • Exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

    Magus of the Future #75 Creature — Human Wizard

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    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 2/3
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • If the top card of your library changes while you're casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability, you don't reveal the new top card until you finish doing so. This means that if you cast the top card of your library, you can't look at the next one until you're done paying for that spell; and if you play a land from the top of your library, you can't look at the next card until you're done handling any replacement effects that modify how that land enters the battlefield (such as that of Vesuva).
  • Magus of the Future doesn't change when you can play lands. You can do so only during your main phase when you have priority and the stack is empty.
  • Playing a land from the top of your library counts as your land play for the turn. Once you play a land during your turn, you won't be able to play an additional land from the top of your library unless another effect (such as that of Azusa, Lost but Seeking) allows you to.
  • The top card of your library is still in your library and not in your hand. You can't discard or suspend cards from the top of your library, for example.
  • You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions of the spells you cast from your library.
  • You still pay all costs for a spell you cast from your library, including additional costs. You may also pay alternative costs.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom / 0.79 USD 0.49 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.49 EUR 0.13 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.32 USD / 0.73 USD
    Manapool 0.15 USD / 0.59 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Competitivebrawl Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.

    Skill Borrower #56 Artifact Creature — Human Wizard

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    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: 1/3
    Types:
  • Artifact
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Wizard
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities; they have colons in their reminder text.
  • If an effect tells you to draw several cards, reveal each one before you draw it. Skill Borrower will momentarily gain the activated abilities of artifact and creature cards revealed this way, but you won’t be able to activate those abilities while the effect is still happening.
  • If the top card of your library changes while you’re activating one of Skill Borrower’s activated abilities gained from that card, the ability will still be activated and will resolve normally even though Skill Borrower has lost that ability.
  • Skill Borrower may gain activated abilities that it can’t use. For example, if the top card of your library is an artifact or creature card with cycling, Skill Borrower will have cycling. However, since cycling can’t be activated from the battlefield, this won’t have any significant benefit. The same is true for unearth.
  • The only difference between a colored artifact and a colorless artifact is, obviously, its color. Unlike most artifacts, a colored artifact requires colored mana to cast. Also unlike most artifacts, a colored artifact has a color in all zones. It will interact with cards that care about color. Other than that, a colored artifact behaves just like any other artifact. It will interact as normal with any card that cares about artifacts, such as Shatter or Arcbound Ravager.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom 0.49 USD / 2.49 USD
    Cardmarket / 1.4 EUR 0.24 EUR
    Manapool / 1.14 USD 0.17 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.3 USD / 3.47 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Competitivebrawl Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    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.)

    Spellbinder #143 Artifact — Equipment

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    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Artifact
    • SubTypes:
  • Equipment
    • Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Equip

    Rules

  • If the copied card is a split card, you choose which one side of it to cast, but you can't cast both sides. You can choose the other side later in the game, though.
  • Spellbinder imprints a card only once, when it enters. Attaching Spellbinder to a creature doesn't trigger its "enters" ability.
  • Spellbinder's second ability allows you to create a copy of the imprinted instant card in the Exile zone (that's where the imprinted instant card is) and then cast it without paying its mana cost.
  • You don't pay the spell's mana cost. If the spell has X in its mana cost, X is 0. You do pay any additional costs for that spell. You can't use any alternative costs.
  • The creation of the copy and then the casting of the copy are both optional.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 6.27 USD / 30.55 USD
    Cardkingdom 3.49 USD / 14.99 USD
    Manapool / 7.29 USD 2.93 USD
    Cardmarket 1 EUR / 9.35 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Competitivebrawl Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Imprint — When this Equipment enters, you may exile an instant card from your hand. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Equip