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Sculpting Steel

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Artifact

BRRThe Brothers' War Retro Artifacts#50rare

An artificer once dropped one in a vault full of coins. She has yet to find it.

Finishes
Nonfoil · Foil
Border
black
Frame
1997
Pull rate
~1 in 75–2990
Illustrator
Heather Hudson
Found in
The Brothers' War Collector Booster Pack · The Brothers' War Set Booster Pack · 2 more
Printings13Combos74EDHREC rank#662
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality

Constructed

StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperNot legal

Commander

CommanderLegal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
Duel CommanderLegal
PreDHLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Tiny LeadersLegal

Arena

AlchemyNot legal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
BrawlLegal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlLegal
GladiatorLegal

Other

PremodernNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulLegal
Future StandardNot legal
You may have this artifact enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield.
Plays as:
Permanent Copy
Market · per finishspark updated 48m ago · prices as of 2026-08-30
Nonfoil+6.9%
$2.02
$1.19 low$0.54 gapTCGplayer
Foil+0.3%
$3.41
$2.32 low-$0.68 gapTCGplayer
Cheapest playable copy$1.58· across 13 printings· view the cheapest printing ›

Rulings

5 · latest Jul 15, 2007
  • WotCJul 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.

  • WotCJul 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.

  • WotCJul 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.

  • WotCJul 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.

  • WotCDec 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.