I AM A PIRATE! by UncSteve

Format: Commander

Commander: Edward Kenway

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This Grixis deck is led by Edward Kenway and blends Assassin, Pirate, and Vehicle tribal themes into an aggressive combat-midrange engine. The game plan focuses on establishing early evasive attackers, resolving Edward on Turn 4, and leveraging his end-step ability to amass large reserves of Treasure tokens while stealing opposing cards through Vehicle combat connections. The deck converts its accumulated artifact mass and wide board into a game-ending win condition around Turn 6 using overrun effects like Cyberdrive Awakener and Shared Animosity, or chaining combat phases with Overpowering Attack. A strong suite of low-cost removal, asymmetric bounce via Desynchronization, and freerunning spells provide smooth tempo and interaction. While vulnerable to artifact wipes and heavy creature removal, the deck's multiple impulse draw engines, recursion lines, and independent token generators ensure consistent velocity and resilient recovery across multiplayer pods.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adrestia
  • 1 Adventurer's Airship
  • 1 Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arno Dorian
  • 1 Basim Ibn Ishaq
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Cat, Cunning Thief
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brotherhood Headquarters
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Cargo Ship
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chain Assassination
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Desmond Miles
  • 1 Desynchronization
  • 1 Eagle Vision
  • 1 Edward Kenway
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Escape Detection
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Frostcliff Siege
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Goldvein Pick
  • 1 Guild Artisan
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hidden Footblade
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jackdaw
  • 1 Jacob Frye
  • 1 Kaito, Dancing Shadow
  • 1 Leonardo da Vinci
  • 1 Loyal Inventor
  • 1 Lydia Frye
  • 1 Mary Read and Anne Bonny
  • 1 Monastery Raid
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Overpowering Attack
  • 1 Passenger Ferry
  • 1 Phantom Blade
  • 1 Phantom Train
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reno and Rude
  • 1 Restart Sequence
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shao Jun
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Smoke Bomb
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Spyglass Siren
  • 1 Staunch Crewmate
  • 1 Subterranean Schooner
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swallowed by Leviathan
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Lunar Whale
  • 1 The Revelations of Ezio
  • 1 The Spear of Leonidas
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vaan, Street Thief
  • 1 Xander's Lounge