When Sculpting Steel was announced as one of the
reprints in Tenth Edition, I was jazzed for it.
Despite the tyrrany of Raffinity, I always had
fond memories for Mirrodin, and I still do.
(It's one of the reasons I'm still gutted that
Phyrexia conquered it.) The fact that they
reprinted Sculpting Steel signified for me that
the face of the Core Set was changing, in an
exciting way. This was the first time anything
from Mirrodin got any decent press in the Core
Set, outside low-profile commons like Lumengrid
Warden. I'm a bit sad that it didn't get
reprinted again in Scars of Mirrodin block
(presumably there's still sculpting steel on
that world) but with Phyrexian Metamorph, it
kinda did get reprinted. The Metamorph is
definitely going to be a hot card for a very
long time thanks to what it's capable of, but
Sculpting Steel is not to be overlooked either.
Being able to make copies of any artifact
creature on the field, including Blightsteel
Colossus, is a pretty nifty trick, even if all
you're copying is Solemn Simulacrum. Getting a
second Sword of [X] and [Y] is a perfectly good
play with it, especially if your opponent is
running [X] or [Y]. Better yet, copy your
opponent's best artifact and make him wish he'd
never cast it. Redundant backup copies of any
combo piece are also worth the investment. I'd
balk at using it to copy a Spellbomb though-- if
I were that hard up, I'd pop the Spellbomb and
hope to draw some help, unless I thought the
play would win me the game. Ideally you want to
copy something that costs at least 3, since
that's what you're paying for the Steel. But
hey, you need what you need, and Sculpting Steel
can give it to you. Or at least, it can give you
another one.
I'll be honest: I was never as big a fan as some
of the cards that become a copy of something
else where you have to remember which thing it's
copying. I have a short attention span and a
tendency to lack imagination when building decks
around those cards. (I didn't even realize that
if you clone an Innistrad Werewolf when it's
night-side-up, it can never be flipped back to
day.) Still, I allow that Sculpting Steel is a
good card, and an interesting one to play
around. It's not the most efficient answer to a
Blightsteel Colossus, but it is one of the
funniest. Doubling up on a Fellwar Stone is more
than decent, and copying a Triskelion is exactly
the kind of confusing (but powerful) situation
that my aforementioned short attention span
tries to avoid. But if you're better at handling
these kinds of cards than I am, you'll
definitely want to make space for Sculpting
Steel.
Welcome back readers todays card of the day is
Sculpting Steel a powerful artifact that gains
its powers by copying other artifacts. In
standard this card is not legal so it’s not
viable, in extended and modern I think Phyrexian
Metamoprh does the job splendidly and is
tutorable by anything that tutors for creatures
and is blue for what that is worth. In legacy
and vintage this card could be a part of a combo
but as far as I know this card doesn’t see play
in these older formats and is these days
strictly regulated to casual and multiplayer
play. In Commander I believe this is a pretty
popular combo with Sharuum the Hedgemon,
otherwise this card can copy a BlightSteel
Colossus what’s yours is mine in casual and
multiplayer. In limited it seems solid if you
draft enough artifacts as you can’t count on
your opponents artifacts. Overall a powerful
artifact because it can copy powerful artifacts
and has niche play.
Today's card of the day is Sculpting Steel
which is a three mana artifact that can copy any
other in play artifact when it comes into play.
There are many uses for a colorless Clone spell
and nearly any deck with a few important
artifacts can benefit from running this as
support.
In Limited this is far better in a Mirrodin
setting than the core set of Tenth Edition due
to the number of available artifacts likely to
be in your pool. If a few are available in
Sealed or can be drafted in Booster this is a
valuable card and worth using in any build, but
without a high probability of valuable targets
it is drastically reduced in value.
Welcome to
another great card of the day here at Pojo.com!
Today we are looking at Sculpting Steel.
Sculpting Steel is a rare artifact originally
from Mirrodin. It costs three generic mana, and
you may have it enter the battlefield as a copy
of target artifact card on the battlefield.
There has certainly been a lot of great artifacts
printed lately, so there is no shortage of
things for this guy to copy. The fact that it
costs just three mana makes it better than even
Phyrexian Metamorph.
There will be no shortage of things to copy with
Sculpting Steel, whether it your own or your
opponents. And that is the important thing. Even
in multiplayer, this just gives you more
possible options to copy. And this card begs to
be built around. Cards with comes into play
abilities, such as Myr Battlesphere, are great
ideas of things to copy. But even something like
a Darksteel or Blightsteel Colossus are great
options. One 11/11 trample, and possibly infect,
is bad enough, but two is simply ridiculous!
