Cloud by UncSteve

Format: Commander

Commander: Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Naya Equipment Voltron strategy led by Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER. The primary game plan focuses on casting efficient equipment in the early turns, followed by resolving Cloud on turn 4. Cloud immediately attaches an equipment for free and attacks with haste, drawing cards and creating two Treasure tokens whenever its power reaches 7 or higher. The deck leverages high-stat equipment like Colossus Hammer and Wrecking Ball Arm to rapidly eliminate opponents through commander damage, while multiplying offensive output with Tifa, Martial Artist and Vincent, Vengeful Atoner. A dense suite of protective permanents and spells, including Clever Concealment, Ultimate Magic: Holy, Bastion Protector, and Darksteel Plate, defends the commander against removal. Although the deck features fast single-target damage and strong resilience, its reactive disruption is light, requiring proactive aggression to close out games before opponents assemble combo finishes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akiri, Fearless Voyager
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armory Automaton
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Barret, Avalanche Leader
  • 1 Bastion Protector
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Behemoth Sledge
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Bladegraft Aspirant
  • 1 Bladehold War-Whip
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Bugenhagen, Wise Elder
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Champion's Helm
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cid, Freeflier Pilot
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Citizen's Crowbar
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Cloud's Limit Break
  • 1 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER
  • 1 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
  • 1 Colossus Hammer
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conformer Shuriken
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Danitha, New Benalia's Light
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Delivery Moogle
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Dragonfire Blade
  • 1 Elena, Turk Recruit
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explorer's Scope
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Forging the Tyrite Sword
  • 1 Forth Eorlingas!
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Freya Crescent
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Halvar, God of Battle // Sword of the Realms
  • 1 Helitrooper
  • 1 Hero's Blade
  • 1 Hero's Heirloom
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kassandra, Eagle Bearer
  • 1 Kemba, Kha Enduring
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Maul of the Skyclaves
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Professor Hojo
  • 1 Puresteel Paladin
  • 1 Radiant Grove
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Raubahn, Bull of Ala Mhigo
  • 1 Red XIII, Proud Warrior
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Sacred Peaks
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fallen Hero
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Slayers' Stronghold
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Sunscorched Divide
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 The Spear of Leonidas
  • 1 Tifa's Limit Break
  • 1 Tifa, Martial Artist
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Two-Handed Axe // Sweeping Cleave
  • 1 Ultimate Magic: Holy
  • 1 Unfinished Business
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vincent, Vengeful Atoner
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Wrecking Ball Arm
  • 1 Zack Fair