Quicksilver Elemental
Card Information
Type: Creature — Elemental
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 5
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Mirrodin (MRD)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 47
Oracle Text
{U}: This creature gains all activated abilities of target creature until end of turn. (If any of the abilities use that creature's name, use this creature's name instead.) You may spend blue mana as though it were mana of any color to pay the activation costs of this creature's abilities.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- June 8, 2016
Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.
Source: wotc - December 1, 2004
Quicksilver Elemental can gain the activated abilities of any creature on the battlefield that you can target with its ability, even if you don't control that creature.
Source: wotc - December 1, 2004
The granted abilities effectively use "this permanent," rather than "[that card's name]," so you treat the abilities as if they were printed on Quicksilver Elemental. For example, you treat an ability that says "Sacrifice a creature: Nantuko Husk gets +2/+2 until end of turn" as "Sacrifice a creature: Quicksilver Elemental gets +2/+2 until end of turn."
Source: wotc - December 1, 2004
Quicksilver Elemental gains only activated abilities. It doesn't gain keyword abilities (unless those keyword abilities are activated), triggered abilities, or static abilities.
Source: wotc - December 1, 2004
Quicksilver Elemental has a rather tricky interaction with Leonin Bola. You can actually unattach your opponent's Bola as part of the cost of activating the Elemental-copied ability.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
If you make two copies of an ability that can be activated once a turn, you can activate each of them once a turn.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
You can activate the ability more than once, collecting abilities from multiple creatures (or the same creature more than once).
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
If you use this card to gain Wall of Deceit's ability to turn itself face down, you will not be able to turn this card face up because it will not have the Morph ability.
Source: wotc
Price History
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