Card lookup
Card details and today's market value in £ for any printing.
Skill Borrower
Shards of Alara · ALA #56 · Rare
Pull odds: any Rare ≈1 in 1.1 packs* — odds for this exact card
Standard · near mint · price guides converted at the ECB rate of 2026-10-05
- Type
- Artifact Creature — Human Wizard
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- P/T
- 1/3
- Released
- 2008-10-03
- Finishes
- nonfoil, foil
- Legal in
- Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Penny, Commander, Oathbreaker, Duel, Predh, Tlr
- Source
- View on source site ↗
Market value (£)
Standard
- Cardmarket (via Scryfall) £0.23 0.27 EUR
- TCGplayer (via Scryfall) £0.24 0.32 USD
Foil
- Cardmarket foil (via Scryfall) £1.16 1.37 EUR
- TCGplayer foil (via Scryfall) £2.41 3.19 USD
Add to collection
Sign in to keep track of the cards you own and what they're worth.
Sign in Create account🎯 Want this card?
Sign in to get an alert when this card is listed below your price.
🏅 Graded values & "worth grading?"
📐 Check your copy's centering Photo in, best possible grade out.
Price history
We record this card's value every day from now on, so a chart appears here from tomorrow.
Card text
Play with the top card of your library revealed. As long as the top card of your library is an artifact or creature card, this creature has all activated abilities of that card. (If any of the abilities use that card's name, use this creature's name instead.)
Buy this card elsewhere
Opens each shop's own search — prices and stock are on their site.Some links are affiliate links — TCGDealDigger may earn a small commission at no cost to you.