Construct

Construct
Creature Type
(Subtype for creature/kindred cards)
Statistics	218 cards 2.3% 2.3% 1.8% 1.8% 0.5% 0.9% 0.5% 89.9% 29 Construct creation cards 6.9% 6.9% 13.8% 3.4% 10.3% 3.4% 6.9% 3.4% 10.3% 31% 3.4% as of Duskmourn: House of Horror
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For the test card keyword, see Construct (keyword ability).

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.^[1] They can be thought of as robots or automatons and come in a wide variety of forms, often imitating organic life.^[2]

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.

Zendikar

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

Notable Constructs

Tokens

Tokens marked with are created by Acorn cards.

Trivia

• A variant of Everythingamajig (Unstable) can become a X/X Construct Artifact Creature.
• Every Robot is a Construct, but not every Construct is a Robot. Also, the word has to be appropriate to the setting. Robot is used in more modern settings.^[4]

References