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Roving Actuator

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.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Edge of Eternities
Price
$0.04
EDHREC rank
#22556
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Roving Actuator card art
Roving Actuator turns every noncreature artifact you cast into a free untap trigger, and pairing it with Displacer Kitten creates a loop that can untap your mana rocks indefinitely. Two mana for that kind of engine access is the whole deal.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Roving Actuator is a Commander card — full stop. In 60-card formats it competes with more efficient artifact synergy pieces and lacks the long game to justify a two-mana do-nothing-alone permanent. Commander is where the untap trigger scales: a single Roving Actuator with three mana rocks on board can represent several extra mana per turn cycle, and in artifact-heavy builds it becomes a quiet engine piece that opponents often ignore until it's too late. Oathbreaker can support it in the right shell, but the card truly earns its slot only when you have the artifact density to fire the trigger multiple times a turn.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.04 bulk tier

At $0.04, Roving Actuator is deep bulk — you're paying essentially nothing for a card with genuine combo potential in Commander. Bulk rares with active combo applications tend to stay cheap until a deck or commander pushes them into the spotlight, so pick up copies now if you're building artifact synergy.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.