Steal Artifact

Stealing Card Types

If/When we get another card named "Steal (cardtype)" that gives you control of the card type like Steal Artifact and Steal Enchantment?

If. “Steal” is an odd word for battle, creature, land, or planeswalker.

Artifacts Battles Card Types Creatures Enchantments If/When Lands Planeswalkers Steal Artifact Steal Enchantment

Controlling Contraptions

What happens if a player steals a Contraption with an effect like Steal Artifact that doesn't reassemble it? Does it stay on the original controller's sprocket and never trigger (because the controller isn't the one cranking it)? Does it move to the new controller's same-numbered sprocket? Do they get to pick a sprocket for it?

You get to move it to one of your sprockets of your choice.

Artifacts Contraptions Steal Artifact

Mechanics vs Flavor in Theft

Blue is #1 in stealing permanents, normally flavored as manipulation or mind control, but sometimes as theft (Steal Artifact). Is outright theft, stealing something because you want it, in Blue's color pie? Seems like it could be Black.

Just because something flavorfully fits a color doesn’t mean it has a mechanical execution. It’s not hard to flavor just about any mechanic to fit a color. Flavor is just way more flexible than mechanics. Black is tertiary at stealing.

Artifacts Black Blue Color Pie Colors Flavor Mechanics Mind Control Permanents Steal Artifact Tertiary

Red's Steal Ability

One last question, why does red barely get any time-indefinite steal artifact spells when it's one of the colors associated with rogues, pirates and other thieving scoundrel types? Something like a colorshifted Steal Artifact would've been perfectly in line with red (and Hellkite Tyrant already proves it, but he's very lonely in the color), since it's functionally "artifact removal with a little extra".

One of the ways we separate blue stealing from red stealing is that blue’s stealing is permanent while red’s stealing is temporary.

Artifacts Blue Colors Hellkite Tyrant Pirate Red Rogue Spells Steal Artifact

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