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Cloud, Planet's Champion
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier Mercenary · {3}{R}{W} · Red/White commander
During your turn, as long as Cloud is equipped, it has double strike and indestructible. (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature.)
Equip abilities you activate that target Cloud cost {2} less to activate.
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What Cloud, Planet's Champion actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- AbilityDuring your turn, as long as Cloud is equipped, it has double strike and indestructible.
- AbilityEquip abilities you activate that target Cloud cost {2} less to activate.
What a Cloud, Planet's Champion deck needs
Plays as voltron. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- Equipment (equipped, it has double strike and indestructible on your turn; equip to it costs {2} less)
- protection for the commander
The Cloud, Planet's Champion deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 26× Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
- 8× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a whole board at once
- 8× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 8× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
Best cards for Cloud, Planet's Champion
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.
Equipment and Auras — the things a suit-up commander's trigger and plan are actually made of
- Basilisk Collar1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Sword of the Animist2 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Paradise Mantle0 mana
Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- Archetype of Aggression3 mana
- Iroas, God of Victory4 mana
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
- Ajani's Anguish1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
- Goblin War Drums3 mana
- Jackdaw Savior3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
- Angelic Ascension2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Kellan, the Fae-Blooded // Birthright Boon3 mana
- Templar Knight2 mana
- Idyllic Tutor3 mana
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Loyal Tutor1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Boros Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Cleric Class1 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Mirror Entity3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Artist's Talent2 mana
- Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei2 mana
- Roiling Vortex2 mana
Combos with Cloud, Planet's Champion
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Cloud, Planet's Champion is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Cloud, Planet's Champion + Crackdown Construct198 decks