Pit Automaton
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This printing
SetDFT
Collector #238
Released2025-02-14
Rarityuncommon
ArtistVillarrte
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Pit Automaton

UncommonMV 2
Artifact Creature — Construct
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.
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Keywords
Defender
Card capabilities
ArtifactCreatureMana productionRamp
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
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Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (4)
wotc7 Feb 2025
Exhaust abilities can be activated any time you could normally activate an ability.
wotc7 Feb 2025
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.
wotc7 Feb 2025
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.
wotc7 Feb 2025
If an ability triggers whenever you activate an exhaust ability, that ability resolves before the exhaust ability resolves.