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Tempered Steel

· Enchantment · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

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Times Brought

233

Decks Running

112

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

Tempered Steel

Enchantment

Artifact creatures you control get +2/+2.

Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Rare · Illustrated by Camille Alquier

Final zone distribution

50 instances

46.0%

Battlefield

18.0%

Graveyard

2.0%

Exile

34.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch 24 decks
2 Urza, Chief Artificer 21 decks
3 Mr. House, President and CEO 8 decks
4 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader 7 decks
5 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 6 decks
6 Vraska, Soul of Stone 5 decks
7 Ultra Magnus, Tactician // Ultra Magnus, Armored Carrier 4 decks
8 Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer 3 decks
9 Alibou, Ancient Witness 2 decks
10 Alphinaud Leveilleur 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

233 brought · 111 players

Brought to game

233

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 77% 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.

≥ -4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=28) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=153).

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 +5.9pp; 95% confidence interval -4.0pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=30

13%

23%

13%

47%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 13% (4 / 30 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.