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Thieving Skydiver
Card Information
Type: Creature — Merfolk Rogue
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Zendikar Rising (ZNR)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 85
Oracle Text
Kicker {X}. X can't be 0. (You may pay an additional {X} as you cast this spell.) Flying When this creature enters, if it was kicked, gain control of target artifact with mana value X or less. If that artifact is an Equipment, attach it to this creature.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- November 8, 2024
If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
Source: wotc - September 25, 2020
Thieving Skydiver's ability can target an artifact you already control. You'll attach it to Thieving Skydiver if it's an Equipment.
Source: wotc - September 25, 2020
The control-change effect of Thieving Skydiver lasts indefinitely. It doesn't wear off during the cleanup step, and it doesn't expire if Thieving Skydiver leaves the battlefield. In a multiplayer game, it does expire if you leave the game.
Source: wotc - September 25, 2020
If the Equipment can't be attached to Thieving Skydiver, most likely because Thieving Skydiver has left the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, the Equipment remains attached to whatever it's currently attached to or remains unattached if attached to nothing.
Source: wotc
Price History

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