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Scroll Rack

Artifact

{1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
World Championship Decks 1998
Price
$12.99
EDHREC rank
#1376
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Scroll Rack card art
Scroll Rack lets you swap any number of cards from your hand back to the top of your library, replacing them with fresh draws — it's a repeatable hand-filter that turns clunky draws into live ones every turn. At two mana to cast and one to activate, it's cheap enough to land early and powerful enough to warp games around it, especially in decks that want specific cards on top of the library, from Lorehold, the Historian's spell-from-exile triggers to something as specific as reloading Approach of the Second Sun for the kill.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Lorehold, the Historian

Lorehold, the Historian

60.5% of decks · synergy 0.58

Lorehold, the Historian exiles cards from the top of the library and casts them, so Scroll Rack does exactly what that engine needs — it lets you pre-load the top with your best instants and sorceries rather than hoping the random draw cooperates.

02
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa

Kenessos, Priest of Thassa

35.9% of decks · synergy 0.34

Kenessos, Priest of Thassa puts the top card of the library into play if it's a Kraken, Leviathan, or Serpent, so Scroll Rack is how Kenessos decks guarantee that trigger fires — swap a live hand of lands and small spells into useless positions and stack a sea monster on top.

03
Narset, Enlightened Master

Narset, Enlightened Master

35.5% of decks · synergy 0.33

Narset, Enlightened Master attacks and exiles the top four cards for free casting, which means Scroll Rack is a way to guarantee every swing hits gas — load your four best noncreature spells to the top before declaring attackers.

04
Neera, Wild Mage

Neera, Wild Mage

33.5% of decks · synergy 0.32

Neera, Wild Mage replaces your spells with whatever is on top of the library at random, so Scroll Rack turns that randomness into a controlled experience — set up a high-value card on top and let Neera point at it.

05
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow

35.1% of decks · synergy 0.31

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow deals damage equal to the mana value of the top card revealed on ninjutsu triggers, so Scroll Rack is the premier way to stack a ten-drop or a zero-cost spell and manipulate exactly how much damage each combat step deals.

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 Rack is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — banned in none of them, though it's been on Legacy watch lists before and remains a powerhouse wherever it's allowed. In Commander, it's at its most impactful: singletons reward hand filtering more than anywhere else, and the combination of Scroll Rack plus a fetchland or shuffle effect turns one activation into a full six-card selection. Legacy runs it in a narrow set of combo and control shells where top-of-library manipulation is part of the win condition, but it's not an automatic four-of in the format. Vintage has enough broken card advantage that Scroll Rack is solid without being dominant. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's appeal at a smaller scale — same filtering, fewer resources to spare.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Brainstorm does the same core trick for one mana — put two cards back, draw nothing new, but pair it with any shuffle effect and it reads as hand selection — and it costs under fifty cents. The gap between Brainstorm and Scroll Rack is repeatability: Scroll Rack activates every turn and scales with hand size, while Brainstorm is a single use; if your deck wants the effect once, Brainstorm wins on price, but if you want it every turn, nothing budget-available matches what Scroll Rack does.

Price Context

Current price

$12.99 mid tier

At $12.99, Scroll Rack sits comfortably in the mid tier — expensive enough that it's a deliberate include, cheap enough that it's not a barrier for most players building seriously. It's held this price range steadily because the effect is genuinely irreplaceable in the decks that want it, so treat $12.99 as the floor more than a sale.

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