Sculpting Steel
Artifact
You may have this artifact enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield.
- CommanderLegal
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- PauperNot legal
#669 on EDHREC's list of the most played Commander cards (as of November 9, 2026).
Selling Sculpting Steel?
We pay 50% of a card's market value in cash, or 70% in store credit, for cards worth more than $1. For the cheapest printing of Sculpting Steel, that's about $0.84 cash or $1.18 in credit.
All 12 printings and prices
| Set | # | Released | Nonfoil | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop SLD | 864 | Nov 2024 | – | $5.33 |
| March of the Machine Commander MOC | 374 | Apr 2023 | $3.58 | – |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts BRR | 113z | Nov 2022 | – | $200.00 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts BRR | 50 | Nov 2022 | $2.11 | $3.65 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts BRR | 113 | Nov 2022 | $3.38 | $5.96 |
| Warhammer 40,000 Commander 40K | 247 | Oct 2022 | $3.30 | – |
| Warhammer 40,000 Commander 40K | 247★ | Oct 2022 | – | $6.87 |
| Commander 2021 C21 | 261 | Apr 2021 | $2.10 | – |
| Double Masters 2XM | 286 | Aug 2020 | $1.82 | $2.57 |
| Kaladesh Inventions MPS | 23 | Sep 2016 | – | $110.18 |
| Tenth Edition 10E | 342 | Jul 2007 | $1.68 | $13.58 |
| Mirrodin MRD | 238 | Oct 2003 | $1.90 | $15.14 |
TCGplayer market, near mint, Nov 9, 2026.
Rulings
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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