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Commander / EDH Pirate UBR (Grixis)

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Creature (39)

• 1x Admiral Beckett Brass
• 1x Amphin Mutineer
• 1x Angrath's Marauders
• 1x Breeches, Eager Pillager
• 1x Broadside Bombardiers
• 1x Burdened Aerialist
• 1x Captain Lannery Storm
• 1x Captain Storm, Cosmium Raider
• 1x Captivating Crew
• 1x Coastline Marauders
• 1x Coercive Recruiter
• 1x Corsair Captain
• 1x Cutthroat Negotiator
• 1x Deadeye Plunderers
• 1x Dire Fleet Captain
• 1x Dire Fleet Daredevil
• 1x Dire Fleet Poisoner
• 1x Don Andres, the Renegade
• 1x Dreamcaller Siren
• 1x Fathom Fleet Swordjack
• 1x Forerunner of the Coalition
• 1x Francisco, Fowl Marauder
• 1x Gemcutter Buccaneer
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
• 1x Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
• 1x Merchant Raiders
• 1x Pirated Copy
• 1x Port Razer
• 1x Protean Raider
• 1x Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1x Ramirez DePietro, Pillager
• 1x Rishadan Footpad
• 1x Roaming Throne
• 1x Siren Stormtamer
• 1x Skeleton Crew
• 1x Warkite Marauder
• 1x Wonder
• 1x Zara, Renegade Recruiter

Land (34)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Duskmantle, House of Shadow
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 4x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Watery Grave

Artifact (5)

• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Fell Flagship
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The Indomitable

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Molten Echoes
• 1x Reflections of Littjara
• 1x Shared Animosity

Commander (1)

Instant (12)

• 1x Admiral's Order
• 1x Buccaneer's Bravado
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Lethal Scheme
• 1x Lookout's Dispersal
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Prismari Command
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Siren's Ruse
• 1x Spell Swindle
• 1x Terminate

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Crippling Fear
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x March of the Drowned
• 1x Raise the Palisade

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Sideboard

Creature (7)

• 1x Corsairs of Umbar
• 1x Crafty Cutpurse
• 1x Edward Kenway
• 1x Kukemssa Pirates
• 1x Mary Read and Anne Bonny
• 1x Rishadan Cutpurse
• 1x Titan of Littjara

Instant (4)

• 1x Fiery Cannonade
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Negate
• 1x Rakdos Charm

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Angrath, Minotaur Pirate

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Cover of Darkness
• 1x Discreet Retreat
• 1x Double Down

Creature (2)

• 1x Breeches, the Blastmaker
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Back in Town

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Yarr gonna have a bad time with this

This is a quick aggro tribal pirate deck, your general gameplan is to populate the battlefield with as many pirates as possible quickly, and attack everyone until they die. In order to help you achieve a very quick victory we have a lot of useful mechanics

The pirate's booty

Wherever you can find pirates, you can find treasure(s), and in this deck there are loads of ways to generate them: from Breeches, Eager Pillager, Burdened Aerialist, Captain Lannery Storm, Corsair Captain, Cutthroat Negotiator, Deadeye Plunderers, Don Andres, the Renegade, Gemcutter Buccaneer, Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator, Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, Ramirez DePietro, Pillager, Black Market Connections, Spell Swindle, Prismari Command, and Faithless Looting.

Treasure sinergies

Just having treasures is great, don't get me wrong, but sometimes it's better because of cards like Burdened Aerialist, Captain Lannery Storm, Captain Storm, Cosmium Raider, Deadeye Plunderers, Fathom Fleet Swordjack, and Gemcutter Buccaneer

Stealing

what fun is being a pirate if you don't steal a little from your opopnents? close to none, so we better run Admiral Beckett Brass, Captivating Crew, Coercive Recruiter, Dire Fleet Daredevil, Hostage Taker, Pirated Copy, Protean Raider, Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, Ramirez DePietro, Pillager, Zara, Renegade Recruiter, but mostly Don Andres, the Renegade

How to get pirate to graveyard

that's worded like a google search, but good question; usually Admiral Brass, Unsinkable's ETB gets you going quickly enough, but if you need help or want to tutor some specific pirates i suggest using Forerunner of the Coalition, Francisco, Fowl Marauder, Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel, Faithless Looting, Prismari Command, Nephalia Drownyard, Duskmantle, House of Shadow, and Desolate Lighthouse.

fun ETB

since most of your pirates will enter the battlefield at least twice, you might get twice the ETB benefit, which is why I run Amphin Mutineer, Burdened Aerialist, Corsair Captain, Dire Fleet Daredevil, Dire Fleet Poisoner, Dreamcaller Siren, Hostage Taker, Pirated Copy, Ramirez DePietro, Pillager, Rishadan Footpad, while Merchant Raiders, Gemcutter Buccaneer, Forerunner of the Coalition, and Coercive Recruiter work for themselves and each other pirate entering the battlefield under your control

tirbal sinergies

in addition to your standard tribal cards that work with every tribe (I'm talking Coat of Arms, Herald's Horn, Molten Echoes, Reflections of Littjara, Shared Animosity, Kindred Dominance, Raise the Palisade, and Roaming Throne), there are many cards that only work with other pirates, first those same ETB ones, so Merchant Raiders, Gemcutter Buccaneer, Forerunner of the Coalition, and Coercive Recruiter; second some pirate buffs like Admiral Beckett Brass, Corsair Captain, Dire Fleet Captain, Dire Fleet Poisoner, Skeleton Crew, Buccaneer's Bravado, and Fell Flagship; and last some combat sinergies like Breeches, Eager Pillager, Francisco, Fowl Marauder, Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator, and Ramirez DePietro, Pillager.

control and lethality

Since you will reanimate at least one pirate per turn, there is not a need to protect your own cards, so control is mostly aimed at stopping your opponents from playing good cards and destroying their best cards that are already on the board: Amphin Mutineer, Dire Fleet Poisoner, Hostage Taker, Chaos Warp, Pongify, Lethal Scheme, Prismari Command, Reality Shift, Rapid Hybridization, Terminate, Kindred Dominance, and Raise the Palisade got you covered on the removal side; Spell Swindle, Lookout's Dispersal, Siren Stormtamer and Admiral's Order are the only counterspells I'm willing to play in this deck; March of the Drowned and Siren's Ruse are all the protection your pirates will need. In the end though, what better way is there to stop your opponent from playing than killing him directly? none, that's why Buccaneer's Bravado, Shared Animosity, Coat of Arms, Zara, Renegade Recruiter, Wonder, Warkite Marauder, Port Razer, Gemcutter Buccaneer, Forerunner of the Coalition, Fathom Fleet Swordjack, Broadside Bombardiers, and Angrath's Marauders will make short work of your foes

Date added	1 year
Last updated	2 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 2 Mythic Rares 50 - 5 Rares 23 - 2 Uncommons 6 - 3 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.33
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Orc Army, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Skeleton Pirate 2/2 B, Treasure