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Cloud, Midgar Mercenary

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

199

Decks Running

105

In Decks

740

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

65 instances

1.5%

Library

43.1%

Battlefield

35.4%

Graveyard

6.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 27 decks
2 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 8 decks
3 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 7 decks
4 Lightning, Army of One 6 decks
5 Captain America, First Avenger 5 decks
6 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 5 decks
7 Noctis, Heir Apparent 5 decks
8 Amy Rose 3 decks
9 Jodah, the Unifier 3 decks
10 Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

199 brought · 95 players

Brought to game

199

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -8.1pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=43) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=130).

Observed gap +6.6pp; 95% confidence interval -8.1pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=45

18%

11%

27%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 24% (8 / 45 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

45 of 100 times cast 45%

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.