Bloody Tides

Pioneer Aggro BR (Rakdos) Budget Casual Pirate

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Creature (24)

• 4x Daring Buccaneer
• 3x Dire Fleet Neckbreaker
• 3x Dire Fleet Poisoner
• 2x Fathom Fleet Captain
• 3x Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
• 3x Kitesail Freebooter
• 2x Rigging Runner
• 4x Ruin Raider

Land (22)

• 4x Dragonskull Summit
• 4x Foreboding Ruins
• 8x Mountain
• 6x Swamp

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Claim / Fame

Instant (8)

• 4x Buccaneer's Bravado
• 4x Lightning Strike

Artifact (3)

• 3x Fell Flagship

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Sideboard

Instant (11)

• 3x Fiery Cannonade
• 4x Infernal Grasp
• 4x Rakdos Charm

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Duress

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A budget (~$50) Rakdos pirate list. A fairly simple deck focused on building up a small mass of pirates and hitting for lethal with the help of Dire Fleet Neckbreaker or Buccaneer's Bravado. It probably won't be winning you any GPs, but it's a fun list that can pull off turn 4 wins with a little luck.

All suggestions and critiques are welcome!

Creatures

• Daring Buccaneer a turn one drop that gets a pirate on the board and can fuel Fell Flagship later on.
• Rigging Runner a turn one drop that gets a pirate on the board and can fuel Fell Flagship later on.
• Dire Fleet Poisoner serves as a nice combat trick on a stick, and can combo nicely with Fathom Fleet Captain.
• Fathom Fleet Captain a late-game mana dump that can keep churning out more pirates for us.
• Kari Zev, Skyship Raider is a powerhouse card for {1}{R} that can chip in some significant damage, but is legendary and can't crew Fell Flagship, limiting how many we want to run.
• Kitesail Freebooter is a fantastic value engine against opponents packing non-creature spells, but is unable to crew Fell Flagship and is significantly worse against creature strategies.
• Ruin Raider helps us keep grinding out pirates into the mid and late game.
• Dire Fleet Neckbreaker will often end the game the turn it comes down.

Non-Creatures

• Claim / Fame can bring back most of our pirates against a removal-laden opponent, and works as a pump spell from the graveyard.
• Lightning Strike is there to knock away some of our opponent's blockers or chip in those last few points of damage in a stalled board state.
• Buccaneer's Bravado can come down on an unblocked pirate and win the game for us.
• Fell Flagship is a surprisingly strong card in this deck (being able to crew it with summoning sick 1 and 2-drops really helps our speed).

Sideboard

• Duress will help us out against spell-slinging opponents.
• Infernal Grasp can give us extra removal when Lightning Strike isn't enough.
• Fiery Cannonade Is a one-sided board wipe.
• Rakdos Charm helps us deal with pretty much anything else.

Top Ranked	Achieved #9 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Pioneer legal.
Rarity (main - side)	23 - 0 Rares 19 - 8 Uncommons 4 - 7 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.26
Tokens	Pirate 2/2 B, Ragavan
Folders	Standard, Possible Standard, Decks to Build (STD), Standard, Red n Black, Cool Stuff, Standard, Rb aggro, To Try, Pioneer - Pirates