Pit Automaton
- Mana cost
- {2}
- Type
- Artifact Creature — Construct
- Power / toughness
- 0 / 4
- Set
- Aetherdrift #238 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.29 USD
Defender
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to activate abilities.
{2}, {T}: 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.
Pit Automaton has 1 printing, first in Aetherdrift (2025). EDHREC ranks it #11,674 among Commander cards. It appears most in Gogo, Master of Mimicry decks (1,684 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Pit Automaton most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Gogo, Master of Mimicry: 1,684 decks
- Loot, the Pathfinder: 793 decks
- Redshift, Rocketeer Chief: 221 decks
- Sita Varma, Masked Racer: 194 decks
- Impossible Man: 57 decks
- Sash and Waistcoat, Unmen: 53 decks
- Kang the Conqueror: 8 decks
- Marwyn, the Clearcutter: 8 decks
Often played with Pit Automaton
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : Exhaust abilities can be activated any time you could normally activate an ability.