#quicksilver elemental

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This card has recently gotten a bit of a jump in popularity thanks to this year’s commander set, more specifically Mairsil. With Mairsil out, or even with the elemental exiled, you’d have access to a whole suite of abilities and not have to worry about off colored mana as long as you have enough blue.  With both of them on the battlefield, you can copy Mairsil’s abilities and lose the ‘once per turn’ restriction, leading to a chain of abilities that could end the game if you stack it right.  With the Elemental Exiled, Mairsil could target himself, gain new iterations of those activated abilities, then use the new Quicksilver Elemental Activation to do it again.  Quicksilver Elemental has become awesome tech for Mairsil decks, and if you can play it right, can let you combo out for the win much easier than without.

Quicksilver Elemental will gain the loyalty abilities, yes, but it will only be able to use one of them (and only a + or 0 ability because it has no loyalty counters to spend) since you can only activate one loyalty ability of each permanent you control on each of your turns. The abilities themselves carry these restrictions.

It will gain those abilities, yes, but it’s still restricted to using a single loyalty ability during each of your turns when you could normally cast a sorcery, and have to pay the appropriate costs for them. Since QE doesn’t start with loyalty counters, you’re probably limited to using the planeswalker’s + or 0 ability.