Akshually 🤓 supertype is correct because it includes things like legendary which would be the perfect place for a robot supertype

​@@Amphibian42*Pushes glasses through skull* Aahckshuelly, supertypes are niche descriptive types that has direct rules tied to them, which defines the card's use in the game. (Legendary allows only 1 of each permanent in play, Basic allows any number of copies to be played, World is like Legendary, and snow defines snow.) There is currently no rules presented for why a robot supertypes would be needed. Robots can be defined through the game system by type (artifact) and subtypes, just fine.

@@axelostlund2348 i know but due to the variety of creatures that cam be considered robots with no actual limk between them, a supertype similar to snow would be good if they were to ever tie them together

@@Amphibian42 While that could be a possibility, Supertypes aren't just given out to define cohesion or art, there needs to be a distinct mechanical reason. And currently I am not certain what that would be. One possibility: if a "robot"(artificial?) Would produce mana, you can choose for it to produce colourless mana. As a sort of way of saying: this creature is living and has a connection to leylines but in a different way than traditional living beings. Main point: Supertypes aren't introduced without mechanical significance. In fact there aren't more than 4 in a traditional game of magic (Basic, Legendary, Snow, World.)

I'm already baked as hell watching this Peak Content

Love the myr so much! Urtet saved my life

This video made me love Myrs as well. The creator's pfp also backed this up due to its adorableness! I've been officially converted into a Myr fan

All good things to know, I'm taking notes, I'm taking notes! :)

The Assembly-Worker type is exactly what those repair bots are/would be for Universes Within.

@@casteanpreswyn7528 An assembly worker is someone who works on an assembly line or otherwise in a factory, assembling at least part of a full product. To me, that doesn't really fit with maintenance work. Something like Engineer would fit better, but I don't think Magic has that as a creature type, favouring Artificer instead.

@LuciferLuckless while I would normally agree with that definition for an Assembly-Worker worker, the flavor text for the card "Assembly Worker" almost perfectly describes the repair bots. "With their factories long destroyed, some of Mishra’s creations still toil in remote areas, endlessly performing and reperforming their last orders." Replace "factory" with "ship" and they are no different. It is also the closes to an in universe type that they could get outside of "construct".

@@casteanpreswyn7528 But from that flavour text it seems to suggest that the Assembly Workers aren't trying to maintain their old, decaying factories but are instead still drilling or sawing or welding or whatever random bits of metal they find to keep making the machine parts they were designed to manufacture. It sounds similar, but I personally view it as quite different. They were still performing the job of "Assembly-Worker" in the past, and still sort of are, whereas the Clockwork Droids never did. Let me give you a clearer example. Let's say there was some magic card with art that depicted an automaton with cleavers at the end of mechanical arms and it was pouring a pot of hot oil over some poor victim. The card's flavour text is something like: "With the Great Chef Zambini's restaurant's all closed down, some of his former kitchen staff still toil in remote areas, endlessly performing and reperforming their last orders." Would you say such a creature should have the creature type "Assembly-Worker"? After all, if you just substitute a few words in the flavour text for entirely different words, it sounds a lot like the flavour text for Assembly Worker, and that is an Assembly-Worker. But I think most people would agree that a chef-bot doesn't really feel like an Assembly Worker. Saying "well if you just change them working on a ship to them working in a factory, they're just like this other Assembly Worker" doesn't really mean much. If you swap the "ship" in the art of Admiral Beckett Brass for a "factory", then she'd be doing her job in a factory. That sounds mighty like an assembly worker to me.

@@LuciferLuckless yes, because the important bit about Assembly Workers in mtg isn't that they work on an assembly line, it's that they follow their orders/programming even after it is pointless to do so, it's all they can do because it's all they know how to do, just like the repair droids. Yes, those kitchen staff would be Assembly-Worker type if they were unable to really do anything else, otherwise they're just weirdos. Lol

Okay, just like saying, art is kind of all that matters for if it’s a robot. Like, just look, also, Blade Splicer is totally not a robot, it is a cyborg, it’s got a human head still.

I was thinking about doing that, it's not going to be anything high powered though, hahaha :)

Ok, should watch the whole vid b4 commenting. U also go for artifact creatures and all the stuff. Creating the robot type was useless flavor-wise considering those.

Also wtf memnarch aint a golem???

I would call Cyborgs their own classification, like I touch on briefly when I talk about Phyrexians. I'd say the reason we have the word Cyborg at all is because they *aren't* robots, but rather something organic AND mechanical, hence needing a new word and classification entirely. Taxonomy is hard, hahaha. Now in magic terms: I imagine if we ever got "cyborg" typed creatures, they'd classify as robots depending on if they get an artifact card type or not. That would be the big qualifier for me, is if they are "machine" enough to be considered artifact creatures. I could see it making the robot subtype shortlist for sure :)

Weirdest magic card I learned about today. Huh. Neat.

@@iwriterobots That's old magic for you. Throw any old idea at the wall and see what sticks. The origin of "robognomes" as far as I know are Bottle Gnomes.

Mhm, which I go out of my way to specify by saying that it should be noted that "Equipment" is only on the list because of the reconfigure creatures! :)

I left it off since it's only for Tokens, but it's absolutely a robot type too!

behold: a robot scryfall.com/card/8ed/320/wall-of-spears

There's a text note in the video right afterwards that says something similar :) Did not expect the esper fans to show up in full force! :0 Sorry to misnomer your faves!

sorry im very normal about scavengers reign and when i heard your opening spiel about robots i had to know 👍

incredible show :) Levi good :)

prior to dnd, the inarguably most common use of "phylactery" was to refer to tefillin, small boxes containing torah verses which are worn by more orthodox jews during prayer, so there's distinct antisemitism vibes to making it the name of evil soul boxes. while it's possible gary gygax harbored no ill intent and simply looked "amulet" up in a thesaurus or something, that doesn't mean we shouldn't change it

Yeah, upon researching further it also sounds like the word itself comes from Greek!

it sounds like we need a robot crab set

I love the addition of Walrus on the list. Very logical!

Glad you touched on the non-artifact robots. Especially before we got colored artifacts as evergreen/deciduous a lot of robots that aren't artifacts at all, like Slag Fiend and many of the other creatures from Mirrodin/New Phyrexia/Phyrexia.

I wonder if "Plane of origin" could also be part of the checklist when paired with creature type. like, there are some planes where it's a lot more likely a Golem is a robot than a clay/earth construct.

@@alexortiz9777 That's an intriguing idea for sure! I'm not sure if I like how much prior information that requires. Additionally, a lot of the "robot" golems that are metal are sadly more akin to like, animated steal than a robot? It's kind of a fine line, which is why I defer to artistic representation over like "lore" accuracy. E.g. Sometimes Solem Simulacrum is a robot