First printed in Mirrodin (2003)
All 13 prints
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Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #864, 2024
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March of the Machine Commander (MOC) #374, 2023
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The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #113, 2022
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The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #113z, 2022
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The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #50, 2022
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Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K) #247, 2022
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Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K) #247★, 2022
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Commander 2021 (C21) #261, 2021
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Kaladesh Remastered (KLR) #302, 2020 (digital)
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Double Masters (2XM) #286, 2020
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Kaladesh Inventions (MPS) #23, 2016
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Tenth Edition (10E) #342, 2007
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Mirrodin (MRD) #238, 2003
Artifact
You may have this artifact enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield.
An artificer once dropped one in a vault full of coins. She has yet to find it.
- Illustrated by
- Heather Hudson
Legality
- Legal in
- Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, Standard Brawl
Rulings (5)
- 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.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
74 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite card draw, Infinite colorless mana…: Basalt Monolith + Clock of Omens + Sculpting Steel + Staff of Domination
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Sculpting Steel + Sharuum the Hegemon
- Infinite colorless mana, Infinite untap of Myr you control: Myr Galvanizer + Palladium Myr + Sculpting Steel
- Infinite card draw, Infinite colorless mana…: Clock of Omens + Sculpting Steel + Staff of Domination + Thran Dynamo
- Infinite colorless mana, Infinite lifegain triggers…: Clock of Omens + Mana Vault + Sculpting Steel + Staff of Domination
- Near-infinite artifact ETB, Near-infinite artifact LTB…: Foundry Inspector + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Sculpting Steel + Spine of Ish Sah
- Infinite card draw, Infinite colorless mana…: Clock of Omens + Grim Monolith + Sculpting Steel + Staff of Domination
- Near-infinite artifact ETB, Near-infinite artifact LTB…: Cloud Key + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Sculpting Steel + Spine of Ish Sah
- Near-infinite artifact ETB, Near-infinite artifact LTB…: Glaring Fleshraker + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Sculpting Steel + Spine of Ish Sah
- Near-infinite artifact ETB, Near-infinite artifact LTB…: Jhoira's Familiar + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Sculpting Steel + Spine of Ish Sah
