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Sculpting Steel

· Artifact · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

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Times Brought

530

Decks Running

263

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Sculpting Steel

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

Final zone distribution

119 instances

2.5%

Library

41.2%

Battlefield

30.3%

Graveyard

5.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Szarekh, the Silent King 26 decks
2 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 21 decks
3 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 13 decks
4 Iron Man, Titan of Innovation 11 decks
5 Imotekh the Stormlord 9 decks
6 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 9 decks
7 Karn, Legacy Reforged 8 decks
8 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 7 decks
9 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 7 decks
10 Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

530 brought · 237 players

Brought to game

530

Ever drawn

108

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ -4.9pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=65) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=326).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=22) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +1.7pp; 95% confidence interval -4.9pp to +8.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=82

20%

12%

50%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 7% (3 / 82 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

82 of 100 times cast 82%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.