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Cloud, Midgar Mercenary

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

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Times Brought

606

Decks Running

260

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

Cloud, Midgar Mercenary

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier Mercenary

When Cloud enters, search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. As long as Cloud is equipped, if a triggered ability of Cloud or an Equipment attached to it triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

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Final Fantasy (FIN) · Mythic · Illustrated by Kazto Furuya

Final zone distribution

128 instances

1.6%

Library

45.3%

Battlefield

32.0%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 65 decks
2 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 20 decks
3 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 19 decks
4 Captain America, First Avenger 16 decks
5 Noctis, Heir Apparent 15 decks
6 Lightning, Army of One 14 decks
7 Amy Rose 9 decks
8 Jodah, the Unifier 6 decks
9 Cloud, Planet's Champion 4 decks
10 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

606 brought · 227 players

Brought to game

606

Ever drawn

120

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ -7.5pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=71) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=365).

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 -1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -7.5pp to +5.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=143

24%

10%

17%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 14

On curve 48% (35 / 143 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 53%

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.