Crank

Crank
Keyword Action
Introduced	Unstable
Last used	Unstable
Reminder Text	Crank (At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a Contraption, move the CRANK! counter to your next sprocked and crank any number of that sprocket's Contrations.)
Statistics	1 card 100%
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oracle:"crank(?! ~)"

For the goblin, see Crank (character).

Crank is a keyword action introduced in Unstable which triggers the effects of Contraptions.^[1]^[2]

Description

To crank a Contraption means to trigger the triggered ability they have. Once any Contaptions are assembled, their controller cranks certain contraptions each upkeep based on which sprocket their CRANK! counter moves to. Abilities may also cause a player to crank Contraptions, but currently only Clock of DOOOOOOOOOOOOM! does so.

References

↑ Matt Tabak (November 13, 2017). "Unstable Mechanics". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
↑ Mark Rosewater (November 13, 2017). "The Un-Ending Saga, Part 2". 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 Exploit Extort Fabricate Fading Fear Flanking Flashback Forecast Foretell Fortify For Mirrodin! Freerunning Frenzy Fuse Graft Gravestorm Haunt Hidden agenda Double Agenda Hideaway Horsemanship Improvise Infect Ingest Intimidate Jump-start Kicker Multikicker Landwalk Level up Living Metal Living weapon Madness Melee Mentor Miracle Modular More Than Meets the Eye Morph Megamorph Mutate Myriad Ninjutsu Commander Ninjutsu Offering 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 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 Bolster Clash Cloak Collect evidence Connive Convert Detain Discover Exert Explore Face a villainous choice Fateseal Incubate Initiative Investigate Learn Manifest 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 Divvy Dice rolling Energy Flipping a coin Monarch Predefined token Radiation Rhystic

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 Bank Challenge Curse First strike Four-faced Interplanar Kinfall Landship Legacy Megalegendary Motivate Ransom Reflect Requirement Miracle Scrycast Spark Spellmorph Tasty Token card Underdog Upgrade

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 Storm Scale

v t e Acorn

Sets	Unglued Unglued 2: The Obligatory Sequel Holiday Cards Unhinged Unstable Ponies: The Galloping Unsanctioned Unfinity Ponies: The Galloping 2

Mechanics (Gotcha Scale)	Alliterative Alpha Strike Art Menace Art Rampage Assemble Augment Ban Best in Show Blurry Combine Coolness Crank‎ CRANK! counter Create a Character Denimwalk Donate Family Gathering Gear up Gobble Gotcha Hide Install Jump Jump in a Log Just a Second Knightlifelink Last Strike Loose Lips Outside Assistance Rangeling Reassemble Scrapyard Sprocket Stare Down Super Haste Switch Triple Strike Typelink Undeathtouch Uninstall Wordy

Types	Alicorn Art Attendee Autobot Beaver B.O.B. Brainiac Bureaucrat Chameleon Chicken Clamfolk Cow Cyborg Deer Designer Die Donkey Elemental? Elves Expansion-Symbol Fighter Grandchild Gus Hatificer Head Hero Host Kangaroo Killbot Lady-of-Proper-Etiquette Lobster Mime Mummy Paratrooper Penguin Pig Pony Present Scientist Ship Sketch Spy Teddy The-Biggest-Baddest-Nastiest-Scariest-Creature-You'll-Ever-See Townsfolk Urza Vampyre Villain Waiter Wrestler

Un-iverse	Acornelia Alexander Clamilton Bablovia Agents of S.N.E.A.K. Crossbreed Labs Goblin Explosioneers League of Dastardly Doom Baron Von Count Order of the Widget Calvin Granderson Astrotorium Arteeoh "Brims" Barone Blorpityblorpboop Claire D'Loon D00-DL Devil K. Nevil Harold It Came from Planet Glurg Magar Meet and Greet "Sisay" Monoxa The Most Dangerous Gamer Myra Myra's Marvels Pietra McGiggles Rex Nebula Roxi Solaflora Spinnerette Truss Tusk and Whiskers

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