Sculpting Steel Price
13 printings · 10 sets · first printed 2003
Sculpting Steel has been printed 13 times across 10 sets, first in 2003 and most recently in 2024. Right now the cheapest printing is Tenth Edition #342 at $1.66, while the most expensive is Kaladesh Inventions #23 at $101.94 — about 61× more. The median across 12 priced printings is $3.18. 1 serialized (numbered) printing is listed below but left out of the headline prices. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 13x, including dedicated reprint sets like March of the Machine Commander, Warhammer 40,000 Commander.
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Every Sculpting Steel Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tenth Edition #342 (R) Cheapest | 2007 | $1.66 | $1.00 |
| Mirrodin #238 (R) | 2003 | $1.87 | $8.50 foil |
| Double Masters #286 (R) | 2020 | $1.99 | $0.90 |
| Commander 2021 #261 (R) | 2021 | $2.02 | $1.00 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts #50 (R) | 2022 | $2.05 | $1.00 |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts #113 (R) | 2022 | $3.18 | $2.05 |
| March of the Machine Commander #374 (R) | 2023 | $3.70 | $1.75 |
| Warhammer 40,000 Commander #247 (R) | 2022 | $3.82 | $5.00 foil |
| Secret Lair Drop #864 (R) Foil | 2024 | $5.34 | — |
| Warhammer 40,000 Commander #247★ (R) Foil | 2022 | $6.61 | — |
| Kaladesh Inventions #23 (S) Foil | 2016 | $101.94 | $120.00 foil |
| The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts #113z (R) Foil Serialized | 2022 | $349.99 | — |
| Kaladesh Remastered #302 (M) | 2020 | — | — |
Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.
Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 13 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
5 PrecedentsAny "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.