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Sculpting Steel

Artifact MV 3

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What it does

You may have this artifact enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield.

Combos with Sculpting Steel

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

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Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2004-12-01

    Any "enters" abilities of the copied artifact will trigger when Sculpting Steel enters. Any "as enters" or "enters with" abilities of the chosen artifact will also work. For example, if Sculpting Steel copies an artifact creature with sunburst, the copy will get +1/+1 counters based on the number of different colors of mana used to pay Sculpting Steel's total cost. If Sculpting Steel copies a noncreature artifact with sunburst, the copy will get charge counters based on the number of different colors of mana used to pay Sculpting Steel's total cost.

  • 2007-07-15

    Sculpting Steel doesn't copy whether the original artifact is tapped or untapped. It also doesn't copy any counters on that artifact, any Auras or Equipment attached to that artifact, or any effects that are currently affecting that artifact — you get exactly what's printed on the chosen card and nothing more. So if you copy an animated Chimeric Staff, for example, you get a normal, nonanimated Chimeric Staff.

  • 2007-07-15

    If the chosen artifact is a token, your Sculpting Steel copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put it onto the battlefield. Your Sculpting Steel is not considered to be a token.

  • 2007-07-15

    You can choose not to copy anything. In that case, Sculpting Steel stays on the battlefield as an artifact that doesn't do much of anything.

  • 2007-07-15

    If the chosen artifact is copying something else (for example, if the chosen artifact is another Sculpting Steel), then your Sculpting Steel enters as whatever the chosen artifact copied.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Sculpting Steel, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 10
Games played 17
Win rate 41.2%
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Urza, Lord High Artificer 1 10 20%
Karn, Gilded Guardian 1 7 71.4%
Captain America, First Avenger 1 0 —
Sai, Master Thopterist 1 0 —
Sami, Wildcat Captain 1 0 —
Zhulodok, Void Gorger 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Blue 2 decks
  • Colorless 1 deck
  • Boros 1 deck
  • Five-Color 1 deck
  • Jeskai 1 deck

Sculpting Steel price history

The March of the Machine Commander #374 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$3.62▲ $0.04 (1.1%)
Low $3.58 · High $3.78Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foil
Oct 26, 2026$3.62
Oct 25, 2026$3.62
Oct 23, 2026$3.66
Oct 21, 2026$3.64
Oct 20, 2026$3.70
Oct 19, 2026$3.73
Oct 18, 2026$3.76
Oct 17, 2026$3.72
Oct 16, 2026$3.76
Oct 15, 2026$3.78
Oct 14, 2026$3.72
Oct 13, 2026$3.70
Oct 9, 2026$3.74
Oct 8, 2026$3.61
Oct 6, 2026$3.70
Oct 5, 2026$3.69
Oct 4, 2026$3.73
Oct 3, 2026$3.65
Oct 2, 2026$3.64
Oct 1, 2026$3.72
Sep 30, 2026$3.64
Sep 29, 2026$3.60
Sep 28, 2026$3.58

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Sculpting Steel

12 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Sculpting Steel. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.

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