Pit Automaton
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
AetherdriftDFT · #238
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Construct
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.13 € · ★ 0.17 € · 0.25 $ · ★ 0.34 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Power
- 0
- Toughness
- 4
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
Defender : Add . Spend this mana only to activate abilities. , : When you next activate an exhaust ability that isn't a mana ability this turn, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Format legality
- AlchemyLegal
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- FutureLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PioneerLegal
- StandardLegal
- StandardbrawlLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Villarrte
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2025-02-14
Rulings
Exhaust abilities can be activated any time you could normally activate an ability.
If an ability triggers whenever you activate an exhaust ability, that ability resolves before the exhaust ability resolves.
If an exhaust ability of a permanent is activated, and then that permanent leaves the battlefield and returns to the battlefield, it becomes a new object so its exhaust ability can be activated again.
Pit Automaton has received an update to its Oracle text. Specifically, the delayed triggered ability doesn’t trigger if you activate an exhaust ability that is also a mana ability.