Scrap Mastery is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Each player exiles all artifact cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all artifacts they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
Complete guide
Scrap Mastery is a powerful red sorcery that acts as a Living Death specifically for artifacts, swapping everything on the board with what is in the graveyard. It is a game-changing effect that can turn a pile of junk into a lethal board state in an instant. This card is a staple for artifact-centric decks looking to recover from a board wipe or execute a massive combo.
What It Does
Scrap Mastery performs a three-step sequence that completely reorganizes the battlefield for all players. First, it clears all artifact cards out of the graveyards into a temporary exile zone. Second, it forces everyone to sacrifice the artifacts they currently have on the battlefield. Finally, it brings the cards that were moved to exile in the first step directly onto the battlefield under their owners' control.
How It Resolves Step by Step
When Scrap Mastery resolves, you follow the instructions in order. First, check all graveyards and move every artifact card there to exile. Next, every player sacrifices all artifacts they currently control; these sacrificed artifacts go to the graveyard (unless a replacement effect says otherwise). Finally, the specific cards that were moved to exile during the first step of this resolution are put onto the battlefield. Note that any artifacts sacrificed in step two remain in the graveyard and do not return.
Common Mistakes
A common point of confusion involves the phrase 'exiled this way.' This only refers to the cards moved from the graveyard to exile during the first part of the spell's resolution. If a replacement effect, such as Rest in Peace, causes your sacrificed artifacts to be exiled instead of going to the graveyard, those artifacts are not considered 'exiled this way' and will not return to the battlefield. Additionally, enter-the-battlefield abilities of the returning artifacts will trigger, but they won't see the artifacts that were just sacrificed.
When to Play It
The best time to cast Scrap Mastery is when your graveyard is filled with high-impact artifact creatures or utility pieces, while your current board is either empty or contains cheap artifacts like Treasure tokens. Because it is a sorcery costing five mana, you will often want to ensure you have enough resources to protect your new board or benefit from the sudden influx of permanents immediately.
Interaction examples
Mana GeyserIf your opponents have many tapped lands, you can cast Mana Geyser to generate a large amount of red mana. Use five of that mana to cast Scrap Mastery, allowing you to bring back massive artifacts from your graveyard even if you haven't built up your own land base yet.
Chandra's IgnitionImagine you have a large artifact creature on the battlefield and several powerful ones in your graveyard. You can cast Chandra's Ignition to deal damage to the board; if your creature dies or you sacrifice it later, Scrap Mastery can then be played to swap your current board for the artifacts in your graveyard, ensuring you maintain pressure after the board clear.
If an opponent destroys your board of artifacts, they end up in your graveyard. On your turn, you cast Scrap Mastery. You sacrifice any remaining tokens or utility artifacts, then all those powerful cards that were destroyed are returned to the battlefield at once, completely reversing the opponent's progress.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Scrap Mastery
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
“Exiled this way” refers to the exile instruction that’s part of Scrap Mastery’s effect. If the sacrificed artifacts are instead exiled because of a replacement effect, those cards won’t be put onto the battlefield.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Scrap Mastery + Codex Shredder + Krark-Clan Ironworks
- 1Activate any number of mana-producing artifacts you control by tapping them, adding at least
. - 2Activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing any artifact except itself, adding
. - 3Repeat step 2 for each remaining applicable artifact.
- 4Activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing itself, adding .
- 5Cast Scrap Mastery by paying
, causing each player to exile all artifact cards from your graveyard, then sacrifice all artifacts they control, then return all exiled cards from exile to the battlefield. - 6Repeat steps 1-4 one additional time.
- 7Activate Codex Shredder's second ability by paying
, tapping and sacrificing it, returning Scrap Mastery from your graveyard to your hand. - 8Repeat from step 5.
Scrap Mastery + Codex Shredder + Time Sieve
- 1Activate Time Sieve by tapping it and sacrificing it and four other nontoken artifacts except Codex Shredder, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
- 2Activate Codex Shredder's second ability by paying , tapping and sacrificing it, returning Scrap Mastery from your graveyard to your hand.
- 3Cast Scrap Mastery by paying , exiling all artifact cards from all graveyards, then causing each player to sacrifice all artifacts they control and return all artifacts exiled this way to the battlefield under their owner's control.
- 4Repeat each turn.
Encroaching Mycosynth + Dualcaster Mage + Scrap Mastery + Altar of Dementia
- 1Cast Scrap Mastery by paying .
- 2In response, cast Dualcaster Mage by paying
. - 3Dualcaster Mage enters the battlefield, copying Scrap Mastery.
- 4Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing Dualcaster Mage, causing any player to mill two cards.
- 5Resolve a copy of Scrap Mastery, swapping all nonland permanents you control with all nonland permanents in your graveyard.
- 6Repeat from step 3.
Encroaching Mycosynth + Archaeomancer + Scrap Mastery + Phyrexian Altar
- 1Cast Scrap Mastery by paying , swapping all nonland permanents you control for all nonland permanents in your graveyard.
- 2Archaeomancer enters the battlefield, returning Scrap Mastery from your graveyard to your hand.
- 3Activate Phyrexian Altar five times by sacrificing Archaeomancer and four other creatures, adding .
- 4Repeat.
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