Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER leads an Equipment-focused aggro strategy that aims to stack multiple pieces of gear onto attacking creatures, generating card draw and Treasure tokens whenever Cloud swings with power 7 or greater. The deck accelerates this gameplan through cost-reduction effects, free-equip enablers, and cards that auto-attach Equipment on entry, while Tifa, Martial Artist turns high-power combat damage into additional combat phases, compounding the advantage from Cloud's attack trigger. The primary win condition is overwhelming combat damage through repeatedly attacking with oversized, equipped creatures, backed by protection effects and board wipes to keep opponents off balance.

Cloud, Ex-Soldier decklist

• Lightning Greaves
• Two-Handed Axe // Sweeping Cleave
• 2× Mountain
• Fellwar Stone
• Bastion Protector
• Summoning Materia
• Path of Ancestry
• Jungle Shrine
• Command Tower
• Ultimate Magic: Holy
• Cloud's Limit Break
• Nature's Lore
• Blackblade Reforged
• Sword of the Animist
• Twinmaw Stormbrood // Charring Bite
• Fabled Passage
• Akiri, Fearless Voyager
• Conformer Shuriken
• Ash Barrens
• Puresteel Paladin
• Behemoth Sledge
• Kemba, Kha Enduring
• Drumbellower
• Hero's Blade
• Rogue's Passage
• Slayers' Stronghold
• Champion's Helm
• Loran's Escape
• Hero's Heirloom
• Anzrag's Rampage
• 2× Forest
• Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist
• Decimate
• Game Trail
• Clever Concealment
• Vanquish the Horde
• Yuffie, Materia Hunter
• Conqueror's Flail
• 5× Plains
• Aerith, Last Ancient
• Arcane Signet
• Sacred Peaks
• Farewell
• Vandalblast
• Spire of Industry
• Medic's Kitesail
• Sol Ring
• Rampant Growth
• Furycalm Snarl
• Tifa, Martial Artist
• Helitrooper
• Canopy Vista
• Red XIII, Proud Warrior
• Fire-Lit Thicket
• Cultivate
• Elena, Turk Recruit
• Reyav, Master Smith
• Colossus Hammer
• Sram, Senior Edificer
• Radiant Grove
• Darksteel Plate
• Exotic Orchard
• Bonders' Enclave
• Brushland
• Valorous Stance
• Sunscorched Divide
• Mask of Memory
• Evolving Wilds
• Thought Vessel
• Harmonize
• Rootbound Crag
• Sephiroth, Fallen Hero
• Summon: Kujata
• Danitha Capashen, Paragon
• Wooded Ridgeline
• Sungrass Prairie
• Dispatch
• Cinder Glade
• Rugged Prairie
• Barret, Avalanche Leader
• Vinelasher Adept
• Trailblazer's Boots
• Sunforger
• Hellkite Tyrant
• Bugenhagen, Wise Elder
• Fortified Village
• Commune with Nature
• Fighter Class
• Clifftop Retreat
• Wrecking Ball Arm
• Sunpetal Grove
• Mossfire Valley
• Open the Armory