Sculpting Steel
Sculpting Steel: Artifact, March of the Machine Commander. You may have this artifact enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield. On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Artifact
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- March of the Machine Commander (MOC)
- Released
- 2023-04-21
- Collector number
- 374
- Artist
- Heather Hudson
- Commander rank
- 660 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Build around this card with Grover
About Sculpting Steel
Sculpting Steel is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless artifact from March of the Machine Commander (MOC), a Commander product released in April 2023. It is collector number 374 in that set, with art by Heather Hudson. It costs {3} (three generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 10 sets, from Mirrodin (2003) to March of the Machine Commander (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $3.03 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $3.03 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Sculpting Steel by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Sculpting Steel
Sculpting Steel has been printed in 10 sets. The 12 most recent other printings are listed here, newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #864 | Rare | 2024 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #113 | Rare | 2022 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #113z | Rare | 2022 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR) #50 | Rare | 2022 |
| Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K) #247 | Rare | 2022 |
| Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K) #247★ | Rare | 2022 |
| Commander 2021 (C21) #261 | Rare | 2021 |
| Kaladesh Remastered (KLR) #302 | Mythic | 2020 |
| Double Masters (2XM) #286 | Rare | 2020 |
| Kaladesh Inventions (MPS) #23 | Special | 2016 |
| Tenth Edition (10E) #342 | Rare | 2007 |
| Mirrodin (MRD) #238 | Rare | 2003 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Sculpting Steel, newest first.
- 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.
- 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.
Similar cards
Other artifact cards with no colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Sculpting Steel is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.