Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER leads an Equipment-focused aggressive strategy that aims to suit up multiple creatures with powerful weapons, attack with a wide equipped force, and generate massive card advantage through Cloud's attack trigger. The deck runs a deep suite of Equipment including heavy-hitters like Buster Sword and Colossus Hammer to push Cloud's power to 7 or greater, which unlocks a steady stream of Treasure tokens to fuel further plays. The win condition is straightforward combat dominance, backed by anthem effects, protection pieces, and access to board-clearing tools that keep opponents off balance while the equipped army closes out the game.

Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER decklist

• Terramorphic Expanse
• Evolving Wilds
• Rampant Growth
• 3× Forest
• Sword of War and Peace
• Treasure Nabber
• Meteoric Mace
• Rockfall Vale
• 3× Mountain
• Game Trail
• Mossfire Valley
• 3× Plains
• Thriving Grove
• Canopy Vista
• Cinder Glade
• Enlightened Tutor
• Slayers' Stronghold
• Sword of Once and Future
• Furycalm Snarl
• Command Tower
• Ash Barrens
• Champion's Helm
• Battlefield Forge
• The Capitoline Triad
• Havi, the All-Father
• Excalibur, Sword of Eden
• Brotherhood Regalia
• Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
• Sunpetal Grove
• Sunscorched Divide
• Temple of Abandon
• Authority of the Consuls
• Path of Ancestry
• Ugin, Eye of the Storms
• Clifftop Retreat
• Karplusan Forest
• Kessig Wolf Run
• Windcrag Siege
• Sungrass Prairie
• Sephiroth, Fallen Hero
• Tifa, Martial Artist
• Secret Rendezvous
• Cloud's Limit Break
• Elena, Turk Recruit
• Helitrooper
• SOLDIER Military Program
• Ultimate Magic: Holy
• Clever Concealment
• Austere Command
• Bastion Protector
• Unfinished Business
• Yuffie, Materia Hunter
• Professional Face-Breaker
• Chaos Warp
• Zack Fair
• Cait Sith, Fortune Teller
• Bugenhagen, Wise Elder
• Cultivate
• Nature's Lore
• Red XIII, Proud Warrior
• Wrecking Ball Arm
• Arcane Signet
• Barret, Avalanche Leader
• Colossus Hammer
• Behemoth Sledge
• Conqueror's Flail
• Darksteel Plate
• Explorer's Scope
• Hero's Blade
• Hero's Heirloom
• Lightning Greaves
• Mask of Memory
• Sword of the Animist
• Sol Ring
• Trailblazer's Boots
• Fire-Lit Thicket
• Sacred Peaks
• Machinist's Arsenal
• Buster Sword
• Akroma's Will
• Blasphemous Act
• Hammer of Purphoros
• Reflecting Pool
• Redirect Lightning
• Temple Garden
• Casey Jones, Jury-Rig Justiciar
• Shared Roots
• Bitter Work
• Abandoned Air Temple
• Meteor Sword
• Rumble Arena
• Chimil, the Inner Sun
• Sword of Sinew and Steel