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Scroll of Fate

Artifact3 generic mana

Manifest, before this artifact, was a top-of-library gamble: you flipped up whatever your deck handed you, and turned the face-down 2/2 face up only if it happened to be a creature. Pulling the material from your hand instead changes the mechanic entirely, from a random-value trigger into a deliberate laundering tool that repeats every turn. The 2/2 face-down body is the covering layer, and everything worth doing lives in what you choose to bury under it. A creature hidden this way can be turned face up at any time for its mana cost, and because that turn-up is a special action rather than casting a spell, it does not use the stack and cannot be answered by removal held for the moment you commit. Anything else (a land, an instant, a sorcery, any card with no mana cost or no way to normally hit the battlefield) becomes a 2/2 that simply exists, since the face-up clause only applies to creature cards. That is where the card earns its keep: it places objects onto the battlefield that were never meant to be creatures and leaves them there as bodies or sacrifice fodder, their true identity concealed until you decide otherwise. One-shot manifest effects give you the trick once; a tap ability that never expires turns concealment into a recurring resource, an engine you feed each turn instead of spending in a single burst.

Scroll of Fate (dsc)
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: 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.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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