Sculpting Steel

As of Aug 7, 2026, the cheapest tracked printing of Sculpting Steel is $1.57 (10E #342), and the most expensive is $269.99 (BRR #113z, Serialized, Double Rainbow Foil). The benchmark price (cheapest playable nonfoil) is $2.01, up 28.0% over 7 days, up 32.2% over 30 days, up 60.8% over 90 days. All-time tracked high: $3.32 (2026).

Sculpting Steel has 12 tracked printings across 9 sets, in foil, nonfoil, double rainbow foil and surge foil finishes, including borderless and serialized treatments.

10E #342

$1.57

CK $4.99 / $2.25 -43%

MP $5.21 2 avail

MRD #238

$1.76 +12%

CK $4.49 / $2.05 -16%

MP $3.09 2 avail

BRR #50

$1.94 +24%

CK $4.49 / $2.05 -6%

MP $2.02 31 avail

C21 #261

$2.01 +28%

CK $3.99 / $1.50 25%

MP $2.09 8 avail

2XM #286 Foil

$2.13 +36%

CK $5.99 / $3.00 -41%

MP $2.13 5 avail

2XM #286

$2.27 +45%

CK $3.99 / $1.80 21%

MP $2.08 15 avail

40K #247

$3.01 +92%

CK $4.49 / $2.50 17%

MP $2.49 43 avail

MOC #374

$3.28 +109%

CK $3.99 / $1.80 45%

MP $2.52 71 avail

BRR #50 Foil

$3.34 +113%

CK $4.99 / $1.75 48%

MP $3.85 4 avail

BRR #113

$3.98 +154%

CK $5.49 / $2.75 31%

MP $2.69 18 avail

SLD #864 Borderless Foil

$5.45 +247%

CK $5.99 / $3.00 45%

MP $4.81 14 avail

BRR #113 Foil

$5.98 +281%

CK $8.99 / $4.50 25%

MP $2.96 1 avail

40K #247★ Surge Foil

$5.99 +282%

CK —

MP $5.26 5 avail

10E #342 Foil

$10.33 +558%

CK $16.99 / $8.50 18%

MP $11.87 1 avail

MRD #238 Foil

$14.62 +831%

CK $15.99 / $6.40 56%

MP $15.75 2 avail

MPS #23 Foil

$85.42 +5341%

CK $119.99 / $55.00 36%

MP $119.83 2 avail

BRR #113z Serialized Double Rainbow Foil

$269.99 +17097%

CK —

Card Kingdom currently pays $55.00 cash for MPS #23 (Foil); the retail-buylist spread on that printing is 54% (wide).

• Jul 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.
• Jul 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.
• Jul 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.
• Jul 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.
• Dec 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.

Sculpting Steel has been reprinted 17 times.

Set	Date	Rarity	Treatment
MOC #374	2023-04-21	Rare	Standard
BRR #113	2022-11-18	Rare	Standard
BRR #113	2022-11-18	Rare	Standard
BRR #113z	2022-11-18	Rare	Serialized
BRR #50	2022-11-18	Rare	Standard
BRR #50	2022-11-18	Rare	Standard
40K #247★	2022-10-07	Rare	Standard
40K #247	2022-10-07	Rare	Standard
SLD #864	2021-06-21	Rare	Borderless
C21 #261	2021-04-23	Rare	Standard

Showing the 10 most recent of 17 printings.

Sculpting Steel is the #663 most-played card on EDHREC, up 2 places over the last 30 days.