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Live Play Data

Sculpting Steel

{3} · Artifact · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)
2%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
2798
Decks Running
1137
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
69%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=502
1%
T1
3%
T2
9%
T3
11%
T4
17%
T5
48%
T6-9
11%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15
On curve 13% (45 / 502 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

2800 brought · 922 players
Brought to game
2800
Ever drawn
728
Reached battlefield
502
Still on board at game end
323

Once cast, 64% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +11.7pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=460) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1738).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=201).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +16.3pp; 95% confidence interval +11.7pp to +20.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

813 instances
4.2%
Library
39.7%
Battlefield
24.1%
Graveyard
7.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Sculpting Steel card

Sculpting Steel

{3}
Artifact
You may have this artifact enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield.
March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Heather Hudson

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.
How is Playgroup Live card data collected?
Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.