Cloud by syntheticapriori

Format: Commander

Commander: Cloud, Midgar Mercenary

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This mono-white Equipment Voltron deck is helmed by Cloud, Midgar Mercenary, a commander who tutors an Equipment on ETB and doubles all triggered abilities of itself and attached Equipment. The primary game plan is to deploy Cloud early, fetch a key Equipment (often Swiftfoot Boots for haste or Sword of Hearth and Home for value), suit up, and attack with doubled triggers to generate explosive card advantage, mana, and recursion. The deck wins through commander damage, leveraging a dense suite of Swords, Colossus Hammer, and Buster Sword to pump Cloud into lethal range. Secondary value comes from creatures like Sram, Senior Edificer and Puresteel Paladin that draw cards off Equipment, and from recursion via Forge Anew and Sevinne's Reclamation. The deck is heavily artifact-dependent and vulnerable to mass artifact hate, but its protection suite (Clever Concealment, Restoration Magic) and redundancy in tutors keep the plan resilient.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arc Reactor
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist
• 1 Argentum Armor
• 1 Armored Skyhunter
• 1 Auriok Steelshaper
• 1 Bastion Protector
• 1 Batterskull
• 1 Beatrix, Loyal General
• 1 Brotherhood Regalia
• 1 Buried Ruin
• 1 Buster Sword
• 1 Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
• 1 Captain America, Liberator
• 1 Cid, Freeflier Pilot
• 1 Clever Concealment
• 1 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
• 1 Colossus Hammer
• 1 Danitha Capashen, Paragon
• 1 Deafening Silence
• 1 Dispatch
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 1 Forge Anew
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Gilded Lotus
• 1 Gold Myr
• 1 Hammer of Nazahn
• 1 Iron Man Armor
• 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
• 1 Kíli the Resourceful
• 1 Land Tax
• 1 Leonin Shikari
• 1 Lost Jitte
• 1 Marble Diamond
• 1 Mask of Memory
• 1 Masterwork of Ingenuity
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Monumental Henge
• 1 Mother of Runes
• 1 Open the Armory
• 1 Palladium Myr
• 1 Path to Exile
• 27 Plains
• 1 Plate Armor
• 1 Puresteel Paladin
• 1 Restoration Magic
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1 Sigarda's Aid
• 1 Single Combat
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sram, Senior Edificer
• 1 Steelshaper's Gift
• 1 Stoneforge Mystic
• 1 Stonehewer Giant
• 1 Stroke of Midnight
• 1 Super-Soldier Serum
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1 Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1 Sword of Forge and Frontier
• 1 Sword of Hearth and Home
• 1 Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1 Sword of Once and Future
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Taj-Nar Swordsmith
• 1 Thran Dynamo
• 1 Umezawa's Jitte
• 1 War Room
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Weapons Vendor
• 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow