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By RAW, no.

The Use Magic Device feature lists the specific attunement requirements that it circumvents, and, as the question states, "spellcaster" isn't one of them. There are other attunement requirements that Use Magic Device doesn't get around — for example, alignment restrictions exist for a Sword of Answering or a Talisman of Pure Good (or Evil).

If the intent was for Use Magic Device to get around all attunement restrictions, then it would say so; we can infer that the intent is that some such restrictions cannot be avoided.

It's possible that the intent of the designers was to allow rogues with Use Magic Device to be able to use the (mostly) wands with the 'spellcaster' restriction, but so far the wording of the rules doesn't support that.

But probably by RAI, yes.

In this Twitter post (collected on the Sage Advice website)this Twitter post from October 2016, Jeremy Crawford was asked about how a Wand of Paralysis is used by a rogue, and he doesn't say that it can't be done. But the applicability of Use Magic Device to the spellcaster attunement requirement wasn't the subject of the question, either.

However, this doesn't seem to be a critical game balance issue, and given that Use Magic Device is intended to allow rogues to use spell scrollsallow rogues to use spell scrolls, it doesn't seem unreasonable to extend it to the "spellcaster" items as well.

By RAW, no.

The Use Magic Device feature lists the specific attunement requirements that it circumvents, and, as the question states, "spellcaster" isn't one of them. There are other attunement requirements that Use Magic Device doesn't get around — for example, alignment restrictions exist for a Sword of Answering or a Talisman of Pure Good (or Evil).

If the intent was for Use Magic Device to get around all attunement restrictions, then it would say so; we can infer that the intent is that some such restrictions cannot be avoided.

It's possible that the intent of the designers was to allow rogues with Use Magic Device to be able to use the (mostly) wands with the 'spellcaster' restriction, but so far the wording of the rules doesn't support that.

But probably by RAI, yes.

In this Twitter post (collected on the Sage Advice website), Jeremy Crawford was asked about how a Wand of Paralysis is used by a rogue, and he doesn't say that it can't be done. But the applicability of Use Magic Device to the spellcaster attunement requirement wasn't the subject of the question, either.

However, this doesn't seem to be a critical game balance issue, and given that Use Magic Device is intended to allow rogues to use spell scrolls, it doesn't seem unreasonable to extend it to the "spellcaster" items as well.

By RAW, no.

The Use Magic Device feature lists the specific attunement requirements that it circumvents, and, as the question states, "spellcaster" isn't one of them. There are other attunement requirements that Use Magic Device doesn't get around — for example, alignment restrictions exist for a Sword of Answering or a Talisman of Pure Good (or Evil).

If the intent was for Use Magic Device to get around all attunement restrictions, then it would say so; we can infer that the intent is that some such restrictions cannot be avoided.

It's possible that the intent of the designers was to allow rogues with Use Magic Device to be able to use the (mostly) wands with the 'spellcaster' restriction, but so far the wording of the rules doesn't support that.

But probably by RAI, yes.

In this Twitter post from October 2016, Jeremy Crawford was asked about how a Wand of Paralysis is used by a rogue, and he doesn't say that it can't be done. But the applicability of Use Magic Device to the spellcaster attunement requirement wasn't the subject of the question, either.

However, this doesn't seem to be a critical game balance issue, and given that Use Magic Device is intended to allow rogues to use spell scrolls, it doesn't seem unreasonable to extend it to the "spellcaster" items as well.

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By RAW, no.

The Use Magic Device feature lists the specific attunement requirements that it circumvents, and, as the question states, "spellcaster" isn't one of them. There are other attunement requirements that Use Magic Device doesn't get around — for example, alignment restrictions exist for a Sword of Answering or a Talisman of Pure Good (or Evil).

If the intent was for Use Magic Device to get around all attunement restrictions, then it would say so; we can infer that the intent is that some such restrictions cannot be avoided.

It's possible that the intent of the designers was to allow rogues with Use Magic Device to be able to use the (mostly) wands with the 'spellcaster' restriction, but so far the wording of the rules doesn't support that.

But probably by RAI, yes.

In this Sage Advice rulingTwitter post (collected on the Sage Advice website), Jeremy Crawford was asked about how a Wand of Paralysis is used by a rogue, and he doesn't say that it can't be done. But the applicability of Use Magic Device to the spellcaster attunement requirement wasn't the subject of the question, either.

However, this doesn't seem to be a critical game balance issue, and given that Use Magic Device is intended to allow rogues to use spell scrolls, it doesn't seem unreasonable to extend it to the "spellcaster" items as well.

By RAW, no.

The Use Magic Device feature lists the specific attunement requirements that it circumvents, and, as the question states, "spellcaster" isn't one of them. There are other attunement requirements that Use Magic Device doesn't get around — for example, alignment restrictions exist for a Sword of Answering or a Talisman of Pure Good (or Evil).

If the intent was for Use Magic Device to get around all attunement restrictions, then it would say so; we can infer that the intent is that some such restrictions cannot be avoided.

It's possible that the intent of the designers was to allow rogues with Use Magic Device to be able to use the (mostly) wands with the 'spellcaster' restriction, but so far the wording of the rules doesn't support that.

But probably by RAI, yes.

In this Sage Advice ruling, Crawford was asked about how a Wand of Paralysis is used by a rogue, and he doesn't say that it can't be done. But the applicability of Use Magic Device to the spellcaster attunement requirement wasn't the subject of the question, either.

However, this doesn't seem to be a critical game balance issue, and given that Use Magic Device is intended to allow rogues to use spell scrolls, it doesn't seem unreasonable to extend it to the "spellcaster" items as well.

By RAW, no.

The Use Magic Device feature lists the specific attunement requirements that it circumvents, and, as the question states, "spellcaster" isn't one of them. There are other attunement requirements that Use Magic Device doesn't get around — for example, alignment restrictions exist for a Sword of Answering or a Talisman of Pure Good (or Evil).

If the intent was for Use Magic Device to get around all attunement restrictions, then it would say so; we can infer that the intent is that some such restrictions cannot be avoided.

It's possible that the intent of the designers was to allow rogues with Use Magic Device to be able to use the (mostly) wands with the 'spellcaster' restriction, but so far the wording of the rules doesn't support that.

But probably by RAI, yes.

In this Twitter post (collected on the Sage Advice website), Jeremy Crawford was asked about how a Wand of Paralysis is used by a rogue, and he doesn't say that it can't be done. But the applicability of Use Magic Device to the spellcaster attunement requirement wasn't the subject of the question, either.

However, this doesn't seem to be a critical game balance issue, and given that Use Magic Device is intended to allow rogues to use spell scrolls, it doesn't seem unreasonable to extend it to the "spellcaster" items as well.

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By RAW, no.

The Use Magic Device feature lists the specific attunement requirements that it circumvents, and, as the question states, "spellcaster" isn't one of them. There are other attunement requirements that Use Magic Device doesn't get around — for example, alignment restrictions exist for a Sword of Answering or a Talisman of Pure Good (or Evil).

If the intent was for Use Magic Device to get around all attunement restrictions, then it would say so; we can infer that the intent is that some such restrictions cannot be avoided.

It's possible that the intent of the designers was to allow rogues with Use Magic Device to be able to use the (mostly) wands with the 'spellcaster' restriction, but so far the wording of the rules doesn't support that.

But probably by RAI, yes.

In this Sage Advice ruling, Crawford was asked about how a Wand of Paralysis is used by a rogue, and he doesn't say that it can't be done. But the applicability of Use Magic Device to the spellcaster attunement requirement wasn't the subject of the question, either.

However, this doesn't seem to be a critical game balance issue, and given that Use Magic Device is intended to allow rogues to use spell scrolls, it doesn't seem unreasonable to extend it to the "spellcaster" items as well.