Sculpting Steel

Printings

  • Double Masters (2XM)#286
  • The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR)#113z
  • Kaladesh Remastered (KLR)#302
  • Mirrodin (MRD)#238
  • Tenth Edition (10E)#342
  • Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K)#247
  • Commander 2021 (C21)#261
  • Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K)#247★
  • Secret Lair Drop (SLD)#864
  • March of the Machine Commander (MOC)#374
  • The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR)#50
  • The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts (BRR)#113
  • Kaladesh Inventions (MPS)#23

Sculpting Steel

Card Information

Type: Artifact

Mana Cost: 3

CMC: 3

Part of the Reserved List: No

Set: Double Masters (2XM)

Rarity: Rare

Collector Number: 286

Oracle Text

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

Format Legalities

duel(Legal)
brawl(Legal)
penny(Legal)
predh(Legal)
future(Not Legal)
legacy(Legal)
modern(Legal)
pauper(Not Legal)
alchemy(Not Legal)
pioneer(Not Legal)
vintage(Legal)
historic(Legal)
standard(Not Legal)
timeless(Legal)
commander(Legal)
gladiator(Legal)
oldschool(Not Legal)
premodern(Not Legal)
oathbreaker(Legal)
standardbrawl(Not Legal)
paupercommander(Not Legal)

Card Rulings

  1. July 15, 2007

    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.

    Source: wotc
  2. July 15, 2007

    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.

    Source: wotc
  3. July 15, 2007

    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.

    Source: wotc
  4. July 15, 2007

    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.

    Source: wotc
  5. December 1, 2004

    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.

    Source: wotc

Price History

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