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Breaking it down: A Cloud Strife Commander deck gets a surprising boost from Magic’s TMNT and Lorwyn Eclipsed cards, creating a chaotic five-color warrior strategy.

Follow Followed Like Thread Link copied to clipboard Add us on By Corey Plante Published Mar 8, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT Magic: The Gathering Of all the Final Fantasy cards featuring Cloud Strife, the Najeela reprint might be the most powerful Magic’s TMNT set finally convinced me to build this terrifying Final Fantasy commander deck Image: Wizards of the Coast Sign in to your Polygon account When a friend gifted me the Cloud Strife Magic: The Gathering card, I was pretty intimidated. It’s a reprint of the wickedly powerful Najeela, the Blade-Blossom — the kind of commander that opposing players target ASAP. (let that sink in)

A 3/2 human warrior that costs two colorless and one red mana, Najeela generates a warrior creature token whenever a warrior attacks, but the key detail is its second ability.

The Details

For five mana (one of each color) you can untap all attacking creatures and give them trample, lifelink, and haste and gives you an additional combat phase after that one. Because of the ability, that means a commander deck with Cloud Strife/Najeela at its head has access to all five colors and a clear path to victory.

All told, the general strategy is pretty straightforward: ramp up a variety of mana, fill your board with warriors, keep attacking to generate more warriors, and at some point trigger the ability mid-combat. Running a five-color deck, but, means you have to carefully calculate the mana costs across all of your cards and balance your lands and other mana-generators accordingly.

Why This Matters

There are also a lot of directions you can potentially veer. Warrior appears as a creature subtype across all sorts of sets. While it’s possible to build this out using just Final Fantasy cards , I had the most fun mining the most recent sets and weirdness of Universes Beyond — especially when I added Raphael and Leonardo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into the mix.

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The Bottom Line

While it’s possible to build this out using just Final Fantasy cards , I had the most fun mining the most recent sets and weirdness of Universes Beyond — especially when I added Raphael and Leonardo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into the mix.

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