Admiral Brass, Unsinkable by Hopster

Format: Commander

Commander: Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

Admiral Brass, Unsinkable captains a Grixis Pirate Tribal Reanimator deck that merges tribal aggression with graveyard recursion. The primary game plan focuses on filling the graveyard early through self-mill, discard, and targeted graveyard tutors like Buried Alive and Entomb. Once Admiral Brass, Unsinkable hits the board on Turn 4, she immediately begins cheating high-impact Pirates directly into play during combat as 4/4 beaters with haste. Game-ending threats like Angrath's Marauders, Port Razer, and Dire Fleet Ravager rapidly escalate damage output, while Shared Animosity turns wide boards into lethal strikes. A supporting suite of Treasure producers, including Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator and Pitiless Plunderer, ensures sustained mana velocity and smooth recovery. While the deck boasts immense midgame combat pressure and resilient recursion, it remains vulnerable to dedicated graveyard hate and broad sweeping removal due to a light countermagic suite.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Admiral Beckett Brass
  • 1 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Angrath's Marauders
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Breeches, Brazen Plunderer
  • 1 Broadside Bombardiers
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Coercive Recruiter
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corsair Captain
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dire Fleet Daredevil
  • 1 Dire Fleet Ravager
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Enterprising Scallywag
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gemcutter Buccaneer
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Port Razer
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ramirez DePietro, Pillager
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Skeleton Crew
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Diviner
  • 1 Spectral Sailor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Grim Captain's Locker
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Timestream Navigator
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Warkite Marauder
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zara, Renegade Recruiter