Is it possible to play Scrolls offline?

Since Scrolls have a single player component I was wondering if it is possible to play the game without an Internet connection?

In Minecraft (from the same developer) you can select offline mode in the login screen but I can't seem to find a similar option in Scrolls.

No, offline play isn't possible. This is because all of the game creation, game connection handling and AI calculations are done on Mojang's servers. This is to prevent any form of cheating of the game.

Yes, it would be nice to see if Mojang would create a system where you could play offline against an AI and, to keep it fair, not get anything for your efforts. However, at the moment, I can't find anything (official or otherwise) stating that Mojang hopes to implement such a feature.