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Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.
MTG · Card
◇ Catalog #47
Quicksilver Elemental
mrd·#47·rare·nonfoil
Illus. Tony Szczudlo
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wishlisted
Oct '03
23 yr ago
Value
$23.96+$1 (+4.5%)
30 days high $23 · low $22
Volatility · moderate
EUR€6.54USD$22.96TIX0.02 tix
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Played in EDH
EDHrec rank #8,274 · Niche pick
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Gameplay
Creature — Elemental
{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.
3/4
Legalities
tlrnot legal
duellegal
brawlnot legal
pennylegal
PreDH
Rulings · 8
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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."
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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.
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