Borrowed Knowledge
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}{W}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven #178 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.21 USD
Choose one —
• Discard your hand, then draw cards equal to the number of cards in target opponent's hand.
• Discard your hand, then draw cards equal to the number of cards discarded this way.
Borrowed Knowledge has 1 printing, first in Secrets of Strixhaven (2026). EDHREC ranks it #12,492 among Commander cards. It appears most in Lorehold, the Historian decks (1,715 on EDHREC). It has 1 official ruling.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Borrowed Knowledge most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Lorehold, the Historian: 1,715 decks
- Quintorius, History Chaser: 902 decks
- General Ferrous Rokiric: 771 decks
- Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire: 140 decks
- Excava, the Risen Past: 122 decks
- Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury: 119 decks
- Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch: 116 decks
- Quintorius, Loremaster: 103 decks
Often played with Borrowed Knowledge
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If the first mode of Borrowed Knowledge was chosen but the target is illegal when Borrowed Knowledge tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't discard your hand or draw any cards.