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CardName: Skillsnatcher Cost: 3wu Type: Creature - Shapeshifter Pow/Tgh: 2/3 Rules Text: Whenever Skillsnatcher blocks or becomes blocked by a creature with flying, it gains flying until the end of your next turn. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, reach, trample, and vigilance. Skillsnatcher can block an additional creature. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Yet another card dump (Circeus's) Rare
Skillsnatcher
   Whenever Skillsnatcher blocks or becomes blocked by a creature with flying, it gains flying until the end of your next turn. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, reach, trample, and vigilance.
Skillsnatcher can block an additional creature. 2/3
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Annoying that this can't jump to block flyers, so there isn't really much point including that ability in the list. Also I can't see any reason at all to include reach in this list.
The creature already comes with flying?
Oh, hmm, I hadn't realised it lasted until the end of your next turn. Okay. So I can attack with this on the ground, and if you block with, um, Hovermyr or something, then next turn I can attack with this as a vigilant flyer. Then if you block with Giant Spider then although I lose flying and vigilance, I'm untapped and have reach to block your second Hovermyr.
Confusing. Fun. I wonder how often it'll come up?
Yeah, it has the oddball "or be blocked" + "until next turn" combo so it actually makes sense for all the abilities to be there. Otherwise I need to remove some of them and it gets weird and awkward and unsatisfying.
It'd be simpler if it didn't include any evasion abilities (flying) or attack-modifying abilities (vigilance). The rest would work even if it was just "gains until end of turn".