Roving Actuator
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SetEOE
Collector #157
Released2025-08-01
Rarityuncommon
ArtistSergey Glushakov
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Roving Actuator

UncommonColour IDMV 4
Artifact Creature — Robot
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.
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Keywords
Void
Card capabilities
ArtifactCreatureGraveyard interaction
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (5)
wotc25 Jul 2025
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.
wotc25 Jul 2025
If an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
wotc25 Jul 2025
If the spell you cast has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
wotc25 Jul 2025
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.
wotc25 Jul 2025
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.