Roving Actuator
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Edge of EternitiesEOE · #157
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Robot
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.04 € · ★ 0.06 € · 0.12 $ · ★ 0.16 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 4
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Void — When this creature enters, if a nonland permanent left the battlefield this turn or a spell was warped this turn, exile up to one target instant or sorcery card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard. Copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
Format legality
- AlchemyLegal
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- 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
- Sergey Glushakov
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2025-08-01
Rulings
If an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard has in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
If the spell you cast has in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
If you cast a spell “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Embrace Oblivion, those must be paid to cast the spell.
If you don’t want to cast the copy, you can choose not to; the copy ceases to exist the next time state-based actions are checked.
You cast the copy while Roving Actuator’s ability is resolving and still on the stack. You can’t wait to cast it later in the turn.