Construct

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Construct
Creature Type
(Subtype for creature/kindred cards)
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For the test card keyword, see Construct (keyword action).

Construct is a catch-all creature type used for artificial life forms powered by mechanical means. All Constructs are artifact creatures, except Slag Fiend.

Description

Constructs are different from Golems, which are created through magic, but there is some degree of ambiguity between these types in the game. They can be thought of as robots or automatons and come in a wide variety of forms, often imitating organic life. Design treats the Construct subtype as a catch-all group for artifact creatures in the same manner as they treat Beast. Robots are considered to be a specific sub-group of Constructs, but not every Construct is a Robot.

The first creature to bear the construct type was Bronze Bombshell in Dissension, though many cards from Antiquities were later issued errata in the Grand Creature Type Update to become constructs as well.

Storyline

Alara

Esperite artificers are known to build specialized constructs out of Etherium.

Arcavios

Constructs are among the many artifact creatures employed at the Biblioplex. More specialized constructs have been built to assist the Archaeomancers of Lorehold.

Dominaria

Constructs have a long history on Dominaria, and every major organization of Artificers on the plane has its take on them. In the modern day, they are most common around New Argive and on the various Tolarian campuses.

Historically, they were employed by the ancient Thran, and later by both sides of the Brothers' War. Powerstones are among the most common power sources for Dominarian constructs.

Eldraine

Among the Courts of the Realm, Constructs are most common among the mages of Vantress. Further, into the Wilds, other artisans have developed stranger artifact creatures.

Fiora

The Academy at Palliano constantly churned out new clockwork constructs, although the rate has slowed since the exile of Muzzio from the city.

Innistrad

Constructs are occasionally built by Necro-Alchemists on Innistrad. These constructs are usually powered by trapped geists. The plane's malevolent animate toys (such as Creepy Doll) are also classified as constructs.

Kaladesh

Constructs of all shapes and sizes (often identified as Automata), powered by clockworks and Aether cells, are common all across Kaladesh. Some are built to serve a specific purpose in the civic maintenance of Ghirapur, while others are built for prizefighting or purely out of experimental curiosity.

Kamigawa

The recent technological renaissance on Kamigawa has led to an explosion of new constructs (often called Bots) emerging from the labs and workshops of the Saiba Futurists and the Asari Uprisers. Most Kamigawan bots are powered by the Futurists' controlled Merge Gate technology and are vital to the functioning of Towashi.

Mirrodin

Constructs were ubiquitous on Mirrodin, with many arising "naturally" from the plane's mechanized ecosystems, or were deliberately placed there in Memnarch's reshaping of the plane.

Many others were built or modified by Mirrodin's humanoid civilizations, all of whom developed an affinity for artifice in response to their environment.

Upon the plane's transformation into New Phyrexia, the non-sapient constructs largely lacked the willpower and direction to avoid compleation, becoming just as vital a part of the Progress Engine and Quiet Furnace as they had been for Lumengrid and Kuldotha before them.

Muraganda

Little is known about the wandering construct Sundial other than it follows the dawn sun. It is revered by the Dawnchaser Pilgrims.

Zendikar

A wide variety of Hedron-based constructs can be found on Zendikar, likely the product of kor lithomancy.

Notable Constructs

Arcavios

• Codie

Dominaria

• Clay statues
• Onulets
• Peregrine Dynamo
• Su-chi
• Tetravuses
• Traxos
• Triskelions

Kamigawa

• Mechtitan

Muraganda

• Sundial

Other

• Brass Men
• Voltaic Construct
• Mendicant Core
• Memnites
• Phyrexian Devourer
• Slag Fiend
• Stuffy

Tokens

Tokens marked with are created by Acorn cards.

Token Name	Color	Type Line	P/T	Text Box	Source	Printings
Construct	Colorless	Artifact Creature — Construct	0/0	This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.	Digsite Engineer Karn, Scion of Urza Simulacrum Synthesizer Urza, Chief Artificer Urza, Lord High Artificer A-Urza's Command Urza's Command Urza's Saga
	Colorless	Artifact Creature — Construct	1/1	Defender	Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast Flamewright Sentinel Dispatch
	Colorless	Artifact Creature — Construct	1/1		Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter Myriad Construct Nimblewright Schematic Oni-Cult Anvil
	Colorless	Artifact Creature — Construct	2/2		Kayla's Command
	Colorless	Artifact Creature — Construct	4/4		Retrofitter Foundry Chrome Replicator
	Colorless	Artifact Creature — Construct	6/12	Trample	Ancient Stone Idol Stone Idol Generator Stone Idol Trap
	Colorless	Artifact Creature — Construct	X/X		Metallurgic Summonings Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter Rapid Prototyper
	Red	Artifact Creature — Construct	3/1	Haste	Sokenzan Smelter
Ballistic Boulder	Colorless	Artifact Creature — Construct	2/1	Flying	Mordor Trebuchet
Twin	Colorless	Artifact Creature — Construct	X/X		Gemini Engine
Mechtitan	Colorless	Legendary Artifact Creature — Construct	10/10	Mechtitan is all colors. Flying, vigilance, trample, lifelink, haste	Mechtitan Core
Goblin Construct	Colorless	Artifact Creature — Goblin Construct	0/1	This creature can't block. At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to you.	Relic Robber
Skitterbeam Battalion	Red	Artifact Creature — Construct	2/2	Trample, haste	Skitterbeam Battalion
	Colorless	Artifact Creature — Construct	4/4	Trample, haste	Skitterbeam Battalion

Trivia

• A variant of Everythingamajig can become a X/X Construct Artifact Creature.