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Roving Actuator

Artifact Creature — Robot3 generic manaRed mana

Void reads a state the deck has to manufacture, not one it can stumble into: a nonland permanent must have left the battlefield or a spell must have been warped before the arrival trigger will fire. That gate is easy to trip in a graveyard-fueled red shell, and when it opens, the reward is a free recast of a cheap instant or sorcery already sitting in the yard. The recursion is deliberately capped: mana value two or less, and the card is exiled the instant the ability resolves, before the copy is even cast. So it functions as a one-shot value spike rather than a loop, a single free copy of a burn spell, a small cantrip, or a cheap ritual on the turn the body lands. What makes the constraint elegant is that it rewards sequencing over passive graveyard density: kill something first, then drop the Robot, and the trigger sees the qualifying event. The 3/4 is the quiet part of the pitch. It survives incidental damage and blocks up, so the card earns its keep even when Void whiffs entirely. Copying rather than returning the card is the honest limiter, since the copy spends the graveyard as fuel and does not restock it. This is red's answer to selective recursion, a color that historically reached its graveyard only through recast rituals and flashback-adjacent effects, now given a creature that does the same structural work on a stat line worth playing regardless.

Roving Actuator (eoe)
EOE · #157uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.20
Oracle Text

Rules 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.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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