Scroll of Origins
Artifact
, 
: Draw a card if you have seven or more cards in hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Saviors of Kamigawa
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #27873
Scroll of Origins draws a card each upkeep as long as your hand size matches or beats your commander's mana cost — in practice, a free card every turn for any commander with a cost of four or less and a deck that doesn't empty its hand. It's a bulk enchantment with a real effect, and in the right shell it quietly outperforms cards that cost ten times as much.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Scroll of Origins is a Commander card through and through — the mechanic explicitly keys off your commander's mana value, a concept that only exists in that format. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes with draw engines that don't ask you to maintain a full grip, so it never sees play there. Commander is where the math works: commanders like Atraxa, Praetors' Voice or Chulane, Teller of Tales have high mana values that set a low bar for the hand-size check, and slower games naturally preserve hand size long enough for the card to fire turn after turn.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Scroll of Origins sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you pick up as an afterthought in a trade binder or toss into a cart to hit free shipping. The price reflects its narrow format home, but within Commander it punches well above that cost, so there's no reason to expect it to tick up or down meaningfully.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.