Scroll Rack vs. Sensei's Divining Top
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Posted on Aug. 19, 2012, 4:57 a.m. by Kefale
So I've got a list together for a future Riku of Two Reflections deck I want to get together in the near future and at the moment I'm trying to make room for 2-4 more cards. I have a couple ideas on what could be dropped but more to the point I'm wondering, aside from a difference in price, what is the overall opinion between the two? Is it a little silly to run both in a single deck? Is it just a matter of preference? The choice is probably easier than I'm making it but I'd like to have a more knowledgeable opinion than my own.
Yeah, they're both awesome. If I owned them, I would put them both in my favourite Commander deck. :)
August 19, 2012 8:58 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #4
They don't really do the same thing at all, though. Knowing the application of each is important.
card:Sensei's Divining Top is a proactive way to manipulate your topdeck. Use it to look for answers on your opponent's EoT. It can set you up with lands or spells and gives you some control over your topdeck. It works best paired with tutors and fetches, which can be used to shuffle away undesirable cards. card:Sensei's Divining Top can interact with your hand in a very limited way, drawing you the top card of your library. It doesn't change the cards in your hand apart from that one draw.
Scroll Rack is a proactive way to manipulate your hand. Use it to filter lands or unneeded cards out of your hand and pick up more fuel. It also works best paired with tutors and fetches to shuffle away undesirable cards. Scroll Rack can interact with your topdeck in a very limited way, replacing X cards from your topdeck with X cards from your hand. It doesn't rearrange any cards on your topdeck apart from the ones you put there from your hand.
Demarge says... #2
In edh if you don't have access to a ton of tutors cards that do similar abilities are usually great, you can think of it like you're playing with two copies of top, edh decks are 99 cards so even having two cards with similar abilities it isn't likely you'll always see both of them in one game anyway.
August 19, 2012 5:49 a.m.