Roving Actuator
Card Information
Type: Artifact Creature — Robot
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Edge of Eternities (EOE)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 157
Oracle 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.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- July 25, 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.
Source: wotc - July 25, 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.
Source: wotc - July 25, 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.
Source: wotc - July 25, 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.
Source: wotc - July 25, 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.
Source: wotc
Price History
To study a single card is to glimpse the heart of a spell - a frozen moment of ambition, artistry, and arcane intent. Within each glyph lies a spark: a story untold, a duel turned, a destiny altered. Treat it not as mere parchment, dear seeker, but as a shard of the Multiverse itself.