Cursed Scroll
Artifact
, 
: Choose a card name, then reveal a card at random from your hand. If that card has the chosen name, this artifact deals 2 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Vintage Masters
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #26291
Cursed Scroll is a repeatable, colorless damage source that wins games where both players are hellbent — name the card, flip, deal 2 to anything for three mana. The catch is that it's dead in your hand until your hand is empty, which means it rewards aggressive low-curve shells and punishes midrange piles that want to hold options.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Cursed Scroll is a fringe inclusion — the four-player format makes it hard to stay hellbent long enough for the card to matter, and dealing 2 to a single target rarely changes a game against 40-life opponents without repeated activations over many turns. Legacy is where Cursed Scroll made its name, functioning as a finisher in Sligh and burn strategies that reliably emptied their hand by turn three or four; it's still a legal and occasionally relevant threat in that format's aggressive shells. Vintage has access to it but faster, more powerful options crowd it out entirely. Oathbreaker is legal and slightly friendlier to the card than Commander given the 20-life starting total, but the same hand-size dependency applies.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Price data for Cursed Scroll isn't currently available in the system, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number — it's an older card with a narrow use case, which tends to keep demand modest outside of Legacy collectors. If you're considering picking one up for Commander, weigh that the impact is conditional enough that most budgets are better spent elsewhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.