Quicksilver Elemental
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Elemental
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 4
- Set
- The Zeta Set #29 (mythic)
{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.
Quicksilver Elemental has 4 printings, first in Mirrodin (2003). EDHREC ranks it #7,700 among Commander cards. It appears most in Vivi Ornitier decks (15,737 on EDHREC). It has 8 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Quicksilver Elemental most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Vivi Ornitier: 15,737 decks
- Mairsil, the Pretender: 1,414 decks
- Experiment Kraj: 209 decks
Often played with Quicksilver Elemental
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If you make two copies of an ability that can be activated once a turn, you can activate each of them once a turn.
- : You can activate the ability more than once, collecting abilities from multiple creatures (or the same creature more than once).
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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."
- : Quicksilver Elemental gains only activated abilities. It doesn't gain keyword abilities (unless those keyword abilities are activated), triggered abilities, or static abilities.
- : 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.
- : Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.