Piratical Heretical by user3386783

Format: Commander

Commander: Edward Kenway

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Grixis Pirate tribal deck helmed by Edward Kenway, built to generate explosive Treasure value through combat. The primary strategy is to deploy a critical mass of Pirate creatures and Vehicles, attack to trigger Edward Kenway's end-step Treasure generation (one Treasure per tapped Pirate/Assassin/Vehicle), and leverage Vehicle-based combat to exile opponents' libraries and cast their cards. Win conditions center on overwhelming combat damage, amplified by pump effects like Shared Animosity and tribal lords, with backup from theft effects like Coercive Recruiter and Hostage Taker. The deck lacks infinite combos and relies on sustained board presence and card advantage from Kindred Discovery, Bident of Thassa, and Coastal Piracy.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 At Knifepoint
  • 1 Azure Fleet Admiral
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Breeches, Eager Pillager
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Captain Vargus Wrath
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Coastline Marauders
  • 1 Coercive Recruiter
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corsair Captain
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Daring Saboteur
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dead Before Sunrise
  • 1 Departed Deckhand
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dire Fleet Captain
  • 1 Dire Fleet Neckbreaker
  • 1 Dire Fleet Poisoner
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Double Down
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Edward Kenway
  • 1 Enterprising Scallywag
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fathom Fleet Captain
  • 1 Fathom Fleet Swordjack
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Francisco, Fowl Marauder
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gemcutter Buccaneer
  • 1 Ghost of Ramirez DePietro
  • 1 Headstrong Brute
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lookout's Dispersal
  • 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
  • 1 March of the Drowned
  • 1 Mary Read and Anne Bonny
  • 1 Merchant Raiders
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mutiny
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ramirez DePietro, Pillager
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Skeleton Crew
  • 1 Smoke Spirits' Aid
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Sailor
  • 1 Staunch Crewmate
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 The Indomitable
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vaan, Street Thief
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Warkite Marauder
  • 1 Zara, Renegade Recruiter
  • 1 Zephyr Singer