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Magic · Shards of Alara · #56 · Rare

Skill Borrower

Magic card price for Skill Borrower: $3.47 market, from $1.13 at the cheapest listing, Foil printing, updated Oct 18, 2026. Full price history since Feb 8, 2024 below.

Market price · Foil · Oct 18, 2026
$3.47
0.0% this week · +14.5% in 30 days
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1 day0.0%
7 days0.0%
30 days+14.5%
90 days+42.8%
1 year+57.7%
All time+131.3%

Sellers right now

$1.13lowest listing$23.89highest
Market price$3.47
Mid listing$3.25
Direct$5.91
30-day avg$3.23

Market price is what a near-mint copy actually sold for. The cheapest listing is what a seller asks today — on thin markets the two differ a lot.

Where to buy

TCGplayer$3.47
Cardmarket$1.58 €1.40

EUR converted at 1.1253 (ECB reference rate). Shipping and condition not included.

One year

$1.9152-week low$3.4752-week high
In the range100%
All-time low$0.64
All-time high$3.47
First priceFeb 8, 2024
Foil · market price
$0.47$1.56$2.66$3.75
$3.47
Feb 2024Dec 2024Nov 2025Oct 2026
TCGplayer market price · via tcgcsvtcgrate.com

Price story

We have tracked Skill Borrower (Foil) since February 2024, when it sold for $1.50. Today the market price is $3.47, up 131%. Across the past year it went +57.7%, with a low of $1.91 and a high of $3.47; today it sits near the top of that range. Today's price is the highest we have recorded for this card. Listings currently start at $1.13; over the last 30 days the market price averaged $3.23.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
Foil$3.47$1.13$23.890.0%
Normal$0.30$0.13$20.00−6.3%

The card in play

Power / Toughness1 / 3
Type line
Artifact Creature — Human Wizard
Rules 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, Skill Borrower has all activated abilities of that card. (If any of the abilities use that card's name, use this creature's name instead.)

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