Its just a basic creature with power and toughness, a type line, and mana cost, and usually a block of flavor text (check out Catacomb Crocodile for some premium vanilla creature flavor text)
If you have two dredge cards in your graveyard and one of these in play, you can replace your draw step with a dredge trigger, trigger the Skimmer, then replace that draw with your second dredge card
The 1999 Pokemon Fossil 1st Edition complete set of 62 ungraded cards, with each card bearing gold border fronts and blue border backs, and all non-trainer cards featuring the Edition 1 stamp and skeletal hand set symbol
The opponent can of course choose to reverse the burn by flipping a coin but will have to suffer an additional 20 damage, as the rules regarding burns have changed since the Sun & Moon expansion
Scry isn't what you are paying most of the cost for, that is tied up in the drawing of a card