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Cloud, Midgar Mercenary

· Legendary Creature — Human Soldier Mercenary · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

408

Decks Running

197

In Decks

1105

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

151 instances

0.7%

Library

53.0%

Battlefield

24.5%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 46 decks
2 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 20 decks
3 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 15 decks
4 Lightning, Army of One 14 decks
5 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 13 decks
6 Captain America, First Avenger 10 decks
7 Amy Rose 7 decks
8 Noctis, Heir Apparent 6 decks
9 Cloud, Planet's Champion 3 decks
10 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

408 brought · 176 players

Brought to game

408

Ever drawn

105

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -9.0pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=81) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=250).

Observed gap +1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -9.0pp to +12.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=89

18%

10%

13%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 25% (16 / 89 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 47%

89 of 100 times cast 89%

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

Frequently Asked

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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.