Roving Actuator
- Mana cost
- {3}{R}
- Type
- Artifact Creature — Robot
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 4
- Set
- Edge of Eternities #157 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.14 USD
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.
Roving Actuator has 1 printing, first in Edge of Eternities (2025). EDHREC ranks it #23,216 among Commander cards. It appears most in Sami, Ship's Engineer decks (23 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Roving Actuator most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Sami, Ship's Engineer: 23 decks
Often played with Roving Actuator
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.