Construct (keyword action)

Construct
Keyword Action
Introduced	Mystery Booster 2
Last used	Mystery Booster 2
Reminder Text	No official reminder text
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keyword:"Construct"

Construct is a test card keyword action that debuted in Mystery Booster 2. It is connected to the Building card type.

Description

You spend resources (eg. Sheep) when constructing a building.

This keyword imitates Eurogames with Area Control. This involves controlling a game element or board space through the allocation of resources. Examples of these games are Catan and Carcasson.

Cards that influence Construct

Abbot of the Sacred Meeple

Ruling

Effects that replace sheep payments with other resources (such as Lapidary) can be applied to Abbot of the Sacred Meeple's last ability.^[1]

References

↑ Eric Levine (September 20, 2024). "Mystery Booster 2 Release Notes". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.

Mechanics

Keyword Abilities

Evergreen	Deathtouch Defender Double strike Enchant Equip Equip [quality] Equip planeswalker First strike Flash Flying Haste Hexproof Hexproof from [quality] Indestructible Lifelink Menace Protection Reach Trample Trample over Planeswalkers Vigilance Ward

Other	Absorb Affinity Afflict Afterlife Aftermath Amplify Annihilator Ascend Assist Aura swap Awaken Backup Banding Bands with other [quality] Bargain Battle cry Bestow Blitz Bloodthirst Boast Bushido Buyback Cascade Casualty Champion Changeling Cipher Cleave Companion Compleated Conspire Convoke Craft Crew Cumulative upkeep Cycling [Type]cycling Dash Daybound Nightbound Decayed Delve Demonstrate Dethrone Devoid Devour Devour [type] Disguise Disturb Dredge Echo Embalm Emerge Encore Enlist Entwine Epic Escalate Escape Eternalize Evoke Evolve Exalted Exhaust Exploit Extort Fabricate Fading Fear Flanking Flashback Forecast Foretell Fortify For Mirrodin! Freerunning Frenzy Fuse Gift Graft Gravestorm Harmonize Haunt Hidden agenda Double Agenda Hideaway Horsemanship Impending Improvise Infect Ingest Intimidate Job select Jump-start Kicker Multikicker Landwalk Level up Living Metal Living weapon Madness Melee Mentor Miracle Mobilize Modular More Than Meets the Eye Morph Megamorph Mutate Myriad Ninjutsu Commander Ninjutsu Offering Offspring Outlast Overload Partner Choose a Background Doctor's Companion Friends forever Partner with [name] Persist Phasing Plot Poisonous Prototype Provoke Prowess Prowl Rampage Ravenous Read ahead Rebound Reconfigure Recover Reinforce Renown Replicate Retrace Riot Ripple Scavenge Shadow Shroud Skulk Solved Soulbond Soulshift Space sculptor Spectacle Splice Split second Spree Squad Start your engines! Max speed Storm Sunburst Surge Suspend Toxic Training Transfigure Transmute Tribute Umbra armor Undaunted Undying Unearth Unleash Vanishing Visit Wither

Keyword Actions

Evergreen	Activate Attach Cast Counter Create Double Destroy Discard Exchange Exile Fight Goad Mill Play Reveal Sacrifice Scry Search Shuffle Tap Untap

Other	Abandon Adapt Amass Assemble Behold Bolster Clash Cloak Collect evidence Connive Convert Detain Discover Endure Exert Explore Face a villainous choice Fateseal Forage Incubate Initiative Investigate Learn Manifest Manifest dread Meld Monstrosity Open an attraction Planeswalk Populate Proliferate Regenerate The Ring Tempts You Roll to visit your attractions Saddle Set in motion Support Surveil Suspect Time Travel Transform Venture into the dungeon Venture into [Quality] Vote

Ability words

Other

Digital only	Backbone Boon Conjure Draft Double team Heist Incorporate Intensity Not the starting player Perpetually Seek Spellbook Specialize Unstoppable

Miscellaneous	Ante Batching Historic Modified Outlaw Party Biting Committing a crime Devotion Divvy Dice rolling Energy Flipping a coin Gift Monarch Pawprint Predefined token Radiation Rhystic Speed

Acorn	Art menace Rampage Augment Ban Blurry Combine Coolness Crank‎ Denimwalk Family gathering Gear Up Gobble Gotcha Hide Install Just a second Knightlifelink Last strike Rangeling Reassemble Stare down Super haste Switch Triple strike Typelink Undeathtouch Uninstall Wrap

Playtest	Aggressive Annihinfect Assist kicker Bank Bedtime story Buddy list Challenge Construct Coststorm Curse Deworded Equipment swap Firstest strike Flashforward Four-faced Grazing type Hope Host Interplanar Kinfall Land drop Landship Legacy Library ninjutsu Megalegendary Miracle Monk Track Mono Eminence Motivate Negamorph Nimble Oil Scavenge Old Companion Partner with itself‎ Pass the ball Performing a magic trick Planeswalkerwalk Poison Modular Poison Tolerance Positioning Proliferatelink Ransom Reflect Requirement Rulebreaker Scrycast Scryfall Shackle Sinecure Spaceship Spark Spellmorph Tantrum Tasty Teach Thoughtweft Token card Underdog Upgrade Way behind

Unreleased	Double-tap Forbidden Glorify‎ Hieroglyphics‎ Link Mummify‎ Reckless Unique‎

Former	Bury Landhome Substance

See also	List of Acorn mechanics List of deprecated mechanics List of obsolete terminology List of unreleased mechanics Special action Storm Scale

Construct (keyword action)

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Cards that influence Construct

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