What is a contraption and why do i want one?
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Posted on Oct. 3, 2014, 10:11 p.m. by TheRedDude
Ive tortured tic-tac-toe for hours, but i still dont know. My best guess is artifact slivers, or some sort of affinity which gets out tons of contraptions. Rigger Tribal???
I have four Steamfloggers. Been holding them for years. One day, they will skyrocket in price!
October 3, 2014 10:53 p.m.
Hootiequack says... #4
I really wanna put this guy in a changeling edh deck just to say I've used him.
October 3, 2014 11:01 p.m.
Yeah but then again, any lord effect combos with Muta, and there are a ton of cheaper ones.
October 3, 2014 11:34 p.m.
The longer the game wears on, the more I'm convinced Steamflogger was a joke. Every Future Shifted card in Future Sight was supposed to be from an actual set in the future, but since then they've backtracked a bit and now they say they're from a possible set in the future... sigh.
My guess on contraptions is were going to be artifact tokens that do nothing without riggers to grant them abilities. Kinda like slivers, but the affect applies to all contraptions instead. For example:
Green Rigger: 1GG
Creature - Elf Rigger
All contraptions have "t, Sacrifice this permanent: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool."
1/2
Something like that. I'm defilitely a fan of the "all contraptions" wording as opposed to adding "you control" to it. That ruined slivers IMO.
October 3, 2014 11:51 p.m.
TheRedDude says... #9
How about artifacts that do something when you "assemble" them. Maybe assemble means put an assembly counter on them.
Rigger's Thing 
~ enters tapped
~ doesnt untap during untap step
Whenever assembled untap it
TAP: Assemble all other Contraptions you control for each assembly counter on ~
October 4, 2014 8:23 a.m.
Hickorysbane says... #10
Or you sacrifice a certain number of Riggers to make contraptions, like it takes two X Riggers to assemble Contraption X. Or RIgger X and Rigger Y can create Contraption Z. But maybe Riggers have to tap? and that's why they need haste. There could be a way of giving them first strike (thus the +1 power), or you can have a ton of Rigger tokens so he can be a back-up plan of swarming them with little Riggers. And if that fails you can sac them to assemble some crazy contraption (xD). Also do you think contraptions would be tokens or someting you pulled ot of your deck like that thing that summons Godsire (and other cards of that cycle that summon crazy things from the deck). Anyways that's been my thought process when thinking about Steamflogger Boss
October 5, 2014 12:37 a.m.
nowhere. Everyone's just assumed it's a joke by now, and since wizards is backpedaling with their "future shifted means possible future set" BS everyone just assumed that meant "we're not really reprinting Steamflogger."
October 7, 2014 12:55 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #14
Four years from now, Steamflogger Boss will return as the herald of a new steampunk set, and you'll all be sorry.
Get your foils now, guys.
October 7, 2014 1:02 p.m.
TheRedDude says... #15
Four years? I foresee 2-3, but if you say so... (ps i am a wizard)
October 7, 2014 3:27 p.m.
Google...http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/af170
October 9, 2014 3:51 p.m.
TheRedDude says... #17
maybe so, but 1. dont believe everything on the internet and 2. they could still change their minds and decide to make it anyway
October 9, 2014 3:59 p.m.
TheRedDude "dont believe everything on the internet"
That just means you should always check your sources. Seeing as it's from the WotC site and posted by Aaron Forscythe himself, I'm pretty sure it's legit.
That being said, I agree they could come up with an awesome mechanic for contraptions in the future and decide to throw it in a set.
October 11, 2014 9:22 p.m.
That would be amazing if it actually did become a viable card in the future
October 11, 2014 9:53 p.m.
Wizards of the Coast is a fickle company. Ten years ago The Cheese Stands Alone and Look at Me, I'm the DCI were too absurd to make in a real set, yet now we have Barren Glory and Memoricide .
My point being that, joke or not, Steamflogger Boss may truly be "future shifted" after all once WotC decides that rigging contraptions could and should actually work.
October 11, 2014 11:41 p.m.
happyman379 says... #22
Hey, read the errata on Moriok Rigger. http://magiccards.info/query?q=%21Moriok+Rigger
MindAblaze says... #2
Keep scheming dude.
October 3, 2014 10:14 p.m.