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Scroll of Fate

Artifact

{T}: Manifest a card from your hand. (Put that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander
Price
$0.31
EDHREC rank
#3874
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Scroll of Fate card art
Scroll of Fate puts any card from your hand onto the battlefield face-down as a 2/2 morph creature — for free, at the cost of one mana and a tap — bypassing mana costs entirely on anything with a morph or disguise payoff. Kaust, Eyes of the Glade turns this into a repeatable engine, and the line with Wormfang Manta lets you dodge its leaves-the-battlefield trigger by never casting it legitimately in the first place.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Kaust, Eyes of the Glade

Kaust, Eyes of the Glade

93.5% of decks · synergy 0.93

Kaust, Eyes of the Glade appears in 93% of eligible decks running Scroll of Fate because the two cards form the core of the deck's engine — Scroll cheats any creature into play face-down, and Kaust rewards every face-down permanent with card advantage the moment it enters or turns face-up.

02
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods

Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods

93.0% of decks · synergy 0.92

Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods wants as many face-down creatures as possible to trigger its attack payoffs, and Scroll of Fate is the most mana-efficient way to manufacture them — one mana turns any creature in hand into a 2/2 ready to swing.

03
Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

78.6% of decks · synergy 0.77

Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer draws a card the first time a face-down creature enters each turn, so Scroll of Fate effectively reads 'draw a card' when it's the first morph deployed in a turn cycle.

04
Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

80.2% of decks · synergy 0.76

Zimone, Mystery Unraveler cares about casting spells with the highest mana value among face-down cards, making Scroll of Fate a way to park expensive creatures face-down and set up massive cascade-style payoffs without ever paying full price.

05
Vannifar, Evolved Enigma

Vannifar, Evolved Enigma

60.5% of decks · synergy 0.57

Vannifar, Evolved Enigma builds around face-down creatures as a disguise enabler, and Scroll of Fate fills that role for any creature in hand regardless of whether it natively has morph or disguise.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Scroll of Fate is a Commander card through and through — the morph and disguise synergy ecosystem it plugs into exists almost exclusively in that format, where the payoff commanders make it broken rather than merely cute. In Legacy and Vintage, it's legal but competes with zero-cost alternatives and faster combo infrastructure that has no interest in face-down 2/2s. Oathbreaker is the only other 60-card-adjacent format where it's legal, and commanders like Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer translate cleanly there if the local meta supports it. Outside of dedicated morph builds, Scroll of Fate is a blank in any format.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.31 bulk tier

At $0.31, Scroll of Fate sits firmly in bulk territory despite being a near-auto-include in multiple popular commander archetypes. It's a safe pickup at this price — demand is real but narrow enough that it's unlikely to spike unless a new face-down payoff commander breaks through.

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