Scroll Rack (Original Sketch)

Scroll Rack is a two-mana artifact from Tempest (1997). For (1), Tap: 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. It’s a brilliant example of a card that rewards deep understanding or card advantage, library manipulation, and resource conversion. At its core, Scroll Rack doesn’t technically draw cards – it rearranges them – but when paired with effects that shuffle your library or create card advantage, it becomes an engine of consistency and power. It lets you exchange useless cards in hand for potentially stronger ones. Scroll Rack is used to manipulate your topdeck quality. It’s ideal in decks that care about the top of the library (e.g. Sensei’s Divining Top, Land Tax). Scroll Rack is especially strong with cards like Land Tax, Fetchlands, or Weathered Wayfarer – allowing you to “reset” your hand every turn. In Legacy, Scroll Rack found its most famous home in the Land Tax / Scroll Rack combo deck known as Parfait (Mono-White Control). This deck uses Land Tax to fetch multiple basic lands every turn, filling your hand. Scroll Rack then converts those redundant lands into fresh cards each turn, creating an engine. Other typical cards featured in this deck were Moat, Humility, and Wrath of God as control tools – and Zuran Orb, Ivory Tower for life gain and stalling the game. This combination allowed white control decks to compete with blue draw engines in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. In Commander (EDH), Scroll Rack is one of the most played colorless card-advantage engines, used in many different decks (e.g. Heliod, Sun-Crowned and Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait). In Premodern, it’s a key card in Land Tax Control decks like G/W Parfait (Oath of Druids) – used together with cards like Swords to Plowshares, Oath of Druids, Sylvan Library, Horn of Greed, and Exploration. Scroll Rack is on the Reserved List.