This is a genuinely entertaining card. This card
is unique in that it has an ability that does
not function with any existing cards in the game
of Magic, causing Riggers you control to
assemble TWO Contraptions anytime a single
Contraption would be assembled. It’s funny
because there AREN’T any Rigger cards in Magic
that assemble anything called a Contraption. Ah,
but apparently, in the future, there are. This
card is genuinely entertaining because it really
feels like you are playing a card from the
future. Of course, in limited, you will still
play Steamflogger Boss, he’s a 3/3 for only four
mana. In the very unlikely event that you have a
SECOND Steamflogger in your deck, the second one
you play will gain +1/+0 and have haste. Not
exciting for limited, but perfectly playable.
For constructed play, Steamflogger Boss will
probably stay in your binder until they print
the Riggers that assemble Contraptions.
For all
practical intents and purposes, this guy is
just an overcosted 3/3. There's nothing
good or creative to do with it. We'll just
have to wait for the future to see what
related cards we get. For now, he's pretty
bad.
Steamflogger
Boss
It's a 3/3 for four mana, with a situational
ability that will only become relevant in
multiples. Mistform Ultimus doesn't see any
play. What makes you think this will?
Constructed- 1.5
Casual- 2
Limited- 2.3
-David N
Thursday -
Steamflogger Boss
Interesting card. As of right now we don't know
what Contraptions are yet but I'm guessing they
will be soon be revealed. In the meantime we
have access to the first ability. 4 for a 3/3 is
decent already in limited. Now it gives all your
creatures +1 and haste. A must play in gruul
aggro decks.
Constructed: 5
Casual: 3
Limited: 5
David Fanany
Steamflogger
Boss
Even though Mark Rosewater all but admitted the
other day that this card has no real purpose
other than to confuse and annoy, I don't hate
it. It's kind of neat, in a "Why is Gwyneth
Paltrow's hair a different color now?" kind
of way. And who knows? When we get a block
inspired by the culture of the Skaven from
Warhammer Fantasy, you might be glad you have
seven of these.
I think it's kind of funny that a card designed
to be completely irrelevant is less than
completely irrelevant in limited. The more
uptight or anti-WotC-corporate-machine drafters
at your table might pass you two or three of
these (don't laugh, I've seen it happen). And,
to paraphrase Dave Price, it is objectively good
because it attacks for three.
Constructed: 1/5
Casual: 1/5
Limited: 2/5
Arcane
Steamflogger
Boss
Constructed: No riggers. No contraptions. No
need. There’s really nothing else to say about
this. If you’re running it in a deck you
probably lost a bet.
Casual/Multi: He’s not going to do much for you
here unless you’re playing around with creature
types by using cards like Unnatural Selection or
Imagecrafter. On top of that you could also use
Followed Footsteps to create an army of Steaming
piles of flog, but then your deck is based
around a bad rare and one that doesn’t do a very
good job of winning the game. He doesn’t even
give himself the bonus.
Limited: So the only way I had to make this
creature worth anything to you in your limited
pool is based off of drafting key cards in your
TS packs, both of which were Timeshifted:
Conspiracy and Mistform Ultimus. Either one of
those cards will give you extra “Riggers” with
which to give +1/+0 and haste to. But honestly,
there’s nothing going for this card beyond that.
Maybe if you got a Vesuvan shapeshifter as well,
but other than that, I really don’t see him
being any better than a hill giant, and there
are better cards to fill that role in limited.
Constructed: 1
Casual: 2
Limited: 1
The Missing
Linc
Steamflogger Boss
This card
makes me want to flogg the steam out of the
boss at Wizards. Do I want 4....maybe. Is
it a complete joke...maybe. Right now it is
a 3/3 creature with it's only friend being
the nondiscriminating Mistform Ultimas. We
will see what the future brings (but I think
it may be dust in a trade binder).
Constructed: 1 (as it now stands)
Casual: 2
(only to make other's less in the loop say
"what is that...?")
Limited:
2 (Well it is a 3/3 creature)
Necro
nomikron
Steamflogger
Boss:
What can you say about a hill giant? ... I look
at this card and see meaningless text.
Constructed: 1/5
Casual: 1/5
Limited: 2.5/5
PsychoAnime
If we get other Riggers in the future and if
Riggers are playable, this would
be good. If we get Contraptions in the future,
this will most likely be good.
Sadly, the chances of us getting decent Riggers
and Contraptions is next to
zero as this is a joke card and so we are left
with a 4 mana for a 3/3. It's
actually even worse than Hill Giant as it
doesn't even get a boost from
Muraganda Petroglyphs.
