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Cloud, Midgar Mercenary

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier Mercenary · {W}{W} · White commander

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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What Cloud, Midgar Mercenary actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · etbWhen Cloud enters, search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
• Replacement effect · trigger_doublerAs long as Cloud is equipped, if a triggered ability of Cloud or an Equipment attached to it triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

What a Cloud, Midgar Mercenary deck needs

Plays as equipment trigger doubler. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• equipment and auras with triggered abilities (their triggers fire twice on the commander)
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• auras and equipment worth moving, and bodies to carry them (its text attaches or counts them)

The Cloud, Midgar Mercenary deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 8× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 16× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
• 10× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 7× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Cloud, Midgar Mercenary

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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