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Artifact — Contraption

USTUnstable#205uncommon
BorderlessFull ArtFoil
Border
borderless
Frame
2015 · Full art
Pull rate
~1 in 26–1025
Illustrator
Steve Prescott
Found in
Unstable Booster Pack
Printings1
CommanderNot legalModernNot legalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderNot legal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
DuelNot legal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyNot legal
ModernNot legal
OathbreakerNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageNot legal
Whenever you crank this Contraption, target creature blocks this turn if able.
Market · per finishspark updated 16h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+0.0%
$0.21
$0.12 low$0.11 gap
Foil+0.0%
$1.17
$0.49 low$0.39 gap
Cheapest playable copy$0.21· across 1 printing

Rulings

12 · latest Jan 19, 2018 · one tap opens all
  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    Any Contraption that's on the battlefield and wasn't assembled immediately heads to the scrapyard. However, if it's a not an actual Contraption card (like Copy Artifact isn't), it goes to your graveyard as normal. Non-Contraption cards can't be in the scrapyard.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control any Contraptions, move the CRANK! counter to the next sprocket. You may then crank any number of Contraptions on that sprocket, causing their abilities to trigger. Cranking a Contraption is always optional.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    Contraptions are artifacts. Anything that interacts with artifacts will interact with Contraptions.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    Contraptions aren't put into your main deck. They go into a separate deck called the Contraption deck.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    If a Contraption would leave the battlefield and go to any zone other than exile, it instead goes to the scrapyard, the Contraption deck's version of the graveyard. Things that affect the graveyard do not affect the scrapyard. You can exile Contraptions just fine.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    If you crank multiple Contraptions, their abilities can be put onto the stack in any order. The ability put onto the stack will resolve first.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    If you or a permanent you control are instructed to assemble a Contraption, reveal the top card of your Contraption deck. Put it onto the battlefield on one of the three sprockets.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    If you or a permanent you control assembles a Contraption and your Contraption deck is empty, nothing happens. You don't lose the game.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    In Constructed formats, a Contraption deck must have at least fifteen different Contraption cards and no more than one of each.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    In Limited formats, a Contraption deck may include any number of Contraption cards in your card pool. You don't have to include every Contraption card you draft or open in sealed deck. In those formats, your Contraption deck may include duplicates.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    In silver-bordered games using Contraptions, you have three sprockets, illustrated on the back of Contraption cards. At the start of the game, put a CRANK! counter on sprocket 3.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    While Contraptions you control are on the battlefield, the Contraption deck is not, even if you are using it to signify the three sprockets.