Admiral Brass, Unsinkable by user2983042

Format: Commander

Commander: Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

Admiral Brass, Unsinkable leads a Grixis Pirate typal deck that blends aggressive combat pressure with graveyard reanimation. The early game focuses on deploying evasive low-cost Pirates, establishing mana acceleration through signets and Treasure producers, and filling the graveyard with looting effects. On Turn 5, Admiral Brass enters the battlefield, immediately milling four cards and returning a high-impact Pirate to play as an attacking 4/4 with haste. The deck transitions into critical onset on Turn 6 by reviving damage multipliers such as Angrath's Marauders, extra-combat engines like Port Razer, or wide stat amplifiers like Shared Animosity. Lacking fast infinite combos or direct tutors, the strategy wins through sustained, scaling combat damage across all three opponents by Turn 8. While resilient against single-target trades thanks to graveyard recursion, the list is vulnerable to mass creature sweepers and targeted graveyard exile due to a low density of reactive countermagic.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Admiral Beckett Brass
  • 1 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable
  • 1 Amphin Mutineer
  • 1 Angrath's Marauders
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arm-Mounted Anchor
  • 1 Azure Fleet Admiral
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Breeches, Brazen Plunderer
  • 1 Broadside Bombardiers
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Captivating Crew
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Coercive Recruiter
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corsair Captain
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Daring Saboteur
  • 1 Departed Deckhand
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dire Fleet Daredevil
  • 1 Dire Fleet Ravager
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Don Andres, the Renegade
  • 1 Enterprising Scallywag
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fathom Fleet Captain
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Francisco, Fowl Marauder
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gemcutter Buccaneer
  • 1 Ghost of Ramirez DePietro
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
  • 1 King Narfi's Betrayal
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
  • 1 Merchant Raiders
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Port Razer
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ramirez DePietro, Pillager
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Skeleton Crew
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Sailor
  • 1 Storm Fleet Negotiator
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Grim Captain's Locker
  • 1 The Indomitable
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Timestream Navigator
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Warkite Marauder
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Zara, Renegade Recruiter