Pirates of Darkwater by Nohands404

Format: Commander

Commander: Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Pirate tribal deck built around Admiral Brass, Unsinkable, leveraging her ETB mill and combat-step recursion to generate a steady stream of 4/4 hasty pirates. The deck aims to accrue value through treasure tokens, theft effects, and extra combat/extra-turn spells, then close out games with damage doublers like Angrath's Marauders or repeated combats from Port Razer. The primary win condition is overwhelming combat damage through pirate synergies, with secondary lines from Dire Fleet Ravager's life loss and Timestream Navigator's extra turns. The strategy is midrange: develop mana, cast the commander, reanimate threats, and attack with a growing board.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Admiral Beckett Brass
  • 1 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable
  • 1 Amphin Mutineer
  • 1 Ancestors' Aid
  • 1 Angrath's Marauders
  • 1 Angrath, Captain of Chaos
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azure Fleet Admiral
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Brass's Bounty
  • 1 Breeches, Brazen Plunderer
  • 1 Broadside Bombardiers
  • 1 Buried Treasure
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Captivating Crew
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Coercive Recruiter
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Contract Killing
  • 1 Corsair Captain
  • 1 Costly Plunder
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Daring Saboteur
  • 1 Departed Deckhand
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dire Fleet Daredevil
  • 1 Dire Fleet Hoarder
  • 1 Dire Fleet Ravager
  • 1 Don Andres, the Renegade
  • 1 Enterprising Scallywag
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 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 Hedonist's Trove
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
  • 1 King Narfi's Betrayal
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
  • 1 Malcolm, the Eyes
  • 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 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 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 Zara, Renegade Recruiter