Mishra's Factory

Land
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.
{1}: Mishra's Factory becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
{T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.¹
Illus. Kaja & Phil Foglio

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries

• When it is an Assembly-Worker, it is still a land and retains all of its other abilities. [Duelist Magazine #2, Page 14]
• When animated into an Assembly-Worker, it has creature type Assembly-Worker. [D'Angelo 2001/08/31]
• The card name does not change. It remains "Mishra's Factory". [Jordan 2003/06/14]
• The Assembly-Worker is an artifact creature only until the end of the turn, and then any Enchant Creature or Enchant Artifact spells on it are put into the graveyard. [Duelist Magazine #2, Page 15]
• It can attack on the turn an Assembly-Worker is created, but it may not attack on the turn the land itself is brought into play. See Rule G19.39. [Duelist Magazine #2, Page 15]
• Any counters on the Assembly-Worker remain even if the counters stop being meaningful when it de-animates. [D'Angelo 1998/02/03]
• Tapping a land for something other than mana is not a mana ability. [D'Angelo 1999/10/01]
• When it is an Assembly-Worker, it is an artifact and can therefore be affected by spells and abilities that affect artifacts, such as Disenchant. [WotC Rules Team 1995/02/09]
• If another player takes control of this card while it is an Assembly-Worker, using Aladdin for example, that player keeps control until the control effect ends. They do not lose control just because the card stops being an Assembly-Worker. [WotC Rules Team 1995/02/09] Note that enchantments which steal cards (such as Control Magic and Steal Artifact) do go to the graveyard if the permanent they enchant is no longer valid.
• If an Assembly-Worker is changed to another land type by something like Phantasmal Terrain, it will stay a 2/2 artifact creature and keep the creature type "Assembly-Worker" (until end of turn), but it will change its land type as directed. [Jordan 2003/06/14]
• Extended tournaments (see Rule 803) have banned this card since 1999/10/01.
• Note - Also see Changing a Permanent's Type, Rule 212.1c.
• Note - The Antiquities card appears in four different versions with different art. Three of the cards were each U1 rarity and one was C1 rarity.

Format Legality	Legal in Vintage, Legacy Banned in Extended, Standard
Versions (4)	Antiquities #66 (Kaja & Phil Foglio) Antiquities #67 (Kaja & Phil Foglio) Antiquities #68 (Kaja & Phil Foglio) Antiquities #69 (Kaja & Phil Foglio)
Printings (6/16)	Judge Gift Program (Special) Fourth Edition (Uncommon) Antiquities (Uncommon) → View All