Craft

Craft
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Ability Word
Introduced	The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
Last used	Lost Caverns Commander
Typical Text	Craft — with [...] [Cost] Exile this artifact, Exile [..] you control or a [...] card from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner’s control. Craft only as a sorcery.
Statistics	24 cards 16.7% 20.8% 12.5% 16.7% 8.3% 4.2% 4.2% 16.7%
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keyword:"Craft"

For the act of crafting a card on MTG Arena, see Wildcard.

Craft is an ability word introduced in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan.

Description

Craft is a new way to transform artifacts. By paying a mana cost and exiling permanents you control from the battlefield and / or from your graveyard with specified qualities, artifacts can transform into more powerful permanents. Out of all craft permanents, only three do not transform into artifacts: Dread Osseosaur, Wretched Bonemass and The Grim Captain are all merely creatures that are also all coincidentally black Skeleton creatures that require creatures to craft.

As with previous transforming double-faced cards, you always cast the front face of these cards (that's the face with the craft ability), and they always enter with that face up unless something specifically says they enter transformed, such as the craft ability.

To activate a craft ability, you need to do three things: exile the permanent with craft, exile the specified materials, and pay some mana. The materials are other permanents you control and/or cards from your graveyard and are described in the craft ability itself — for example, "craft with artifact" means exile an artifact you control other than the permanent with craft or exile an artifact card from your graveyard. As the craft ability resolves, the card with craft will return to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control.

If a craft ability requires multiple materials, you can exile some from among permanents you control and the rest from among cards in your graveyard. The cards exiled by the craft ability may be referred to by the transformed permanent.

Market Gnome rewards being a crafting ingredient.

Materials to craft with

Craft with	Example
Artifacts	Idol of the Deep King
Creatures	Paleontologist's Pick-Axe
Cards that share a card type	Eye of Ojer Taq
Permanents	Sunbird Standard
Dinosaurs	Saheeli's Lattice
A Dinosaur, a Merfolk, a Pirate, and a Vampire	Throne of the Grim Captain
Cave	Kaslem's Stonetree
Island	Waterlogged Hulk
Nonlands with activated abilities	The Enigma Jewel
Red instant and/or sorcery cards	Ore-Rich Stalactite

Rules

From the glossary of the Comprehensive Rules (June 7, 2024—Modern Horizons 3)

Craft

Craft is an activated ability that allows a player to exile cards from their graveyard and/or permanents they control to exile the permanent with the craft ability and return it onto the battlefield transformed. See rule 702.167, “Craft.”

From the Comprehensive Rules (June 7, 2024—Modern Horizons 3)

• 702.167. Craft
  • 702.167a Craft represents an activated ability. It is written as “Craft with [materials] [cost],” where [materials] is a description of one or more objects. It means “[Cost], Exile this permanent, Exile [materials] from among permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard: Return this card to the battlefield transformed under its owner’s control. Activate only as a sorcery.”
  • 702.167b If an object in the [materials] of a craft ability is described using only a card type or subtype without the word “card,” it refers to either a permanent on the battlefield that is that type or subtype or a card in a graveyard that is that type or subtype. This is an exception to rule 109.2.
  • 702.167c An ability of a permanent may refer to the exiled cards used to craft it. This refers to cards in exile that were exiled to pay the activation cost of the craft ability that put this permanent onto the battlefield.

Rulings

• Craft abilities are activated abilities with costs that have a mana component as well as an additional "materials" component.
• Craft abilities are written "Craft with [materials] [mana]", which means "[Mana], Exile this permanent, Exile [materials] from among permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard: Return this card to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery."
• The back faces of some cards with craft refer to cards "used to craft" it. This refers to the cards exiled as part of the cost of the craft ability of the front face. Those cards are considered to be "used to craft" that permanent as long as they remain exiled and the permanent remains on the battlefield, even if the permanent's controller changes or some of its characteristics change (because of a copy effect, for example.)
• If the materials required include multiple objects, you may exile some of them from among permanents you control and the rest from among cards in your graveyard. You don't have to choose all permanents or all cards from your graveyard.
• You may exile tokens you control as part of the materials required. However, because they aren't cards and won't stay in exile, any abilities that refer to what you "used to craft" the back faces won't refer to anything.
• If a card that isn't a transforming double-faced card becomes a copy of a card with craft, it'll stay in exile if you activate the craft ability. It won't return to the battlefield.

Examples

Example

Spring-Loaded Sawblades
Artifact
Flash
When Spring-Loaded Sawblades enters the battlefield, it deals 5 damage to target tapped creature an opponent controls.
Craft with artifact (, Exile this artifact, Exile another artifact you control or an artifact card from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner’s control. Craft only as a sorcery.

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Bladewheel Chariot
Artifact — Vehicle
Tap two other untapped artifacts you control: Bladewheel Chariot becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.
Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.))