Skill Borrower 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
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.)
How it works : Skill Borrower
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities; they have colons in their reminder text.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Flash + Protean Hulk + Skill Borrower + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
- 1Cast Flash, putting Protean Hulk into play.
- 2Protean Hulk goes to the bin and gets Skill Borrower, Torch Courier and Goblin Recruiter.
- 3Goblin Recruiter puts Kiki-Jiki on top of your library.
- 4Sacrifice the Torch Courier to give Skill Borrower haste.
- 5Use Skill Borrower's ability to use Kiki's ability: making another copy of Skill Borrower.
- 6Repeat step 5 infinitely.
- 7This creates infinite skill borrowers that are tapped, plus 1 that is untapped.
- 8Use the last Skill Borrower to copy Goblin Recruiter to put Mogg Fanatic on top of your library, and then sacrifice all your Skill Borrowers to their own ability to deal Infinite damage to your opponent.
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