Captain Howler by tylersmith

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain Howler, Sea Scourge

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Izzet tempo and Voltron strategy commanded by Captain Howler, Sea Scourge. It converts looting, rummaging, and wheel effects into substantial burst power buffs and card draw triggers. In the early game, the deck establishes mana rocks and low-cost looting creatures such as Merfolk Looter and Ledger Shredder. Once Captain Howler, Sea Scourge enters the battlefield on Turn 4, it leverages multi-card discard spells like Tolarian Winds, Frantic Search, and Windfall to buff an attacker into lethal range while refilling the hand on combat damage. Evasion enablers like Wonder, Key to the City, and Inkmoth Nexus ensure damage connects past blockers. While the deck possesses fast single-target burst lethality and resilient card flow through Rielle, the Everwise and Inti, Seneschal of the Sun, it relies on sequential combat steps to close out the table.

Decklist (96 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound
  • 1 Bag of Holding
  • 1 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge
  • 1 Cathartic Pyre
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Collector's Vault
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Connecting the Dots
  • 1 Containment Construct
  • 1 Cool but Rude
  • 1 Currency Converter
  • 1 Dack Fayden
  • 1 Decaying Time Loop
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Emrakul's Messenger
  • 1 Evie Frye
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Firestorm
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostcliff Siege
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Hobgoblin, Mantled Marauder
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Inti, Seneschal of the Sun
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Ivora, Insatiable Heir
  • 1 Izzet Charm
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kaito, Cunning Infiltrator
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
  • 1 Kitsa, Otterball Elite
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Library of Leng
  • 1 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Marang River Regent // Coil and Catch
  • 1 Mary Read and Anne Bonny
  • 1 Merfolk Looter
  • 1 Mischievous Mystic
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Overlord of the Floodpits
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Professor Zei, Anthropologist
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Remote Isle
  • 1 Rielle, the Everwise
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Smoldering Crater
  • 1 Soaring Seacliff
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Temur Battle Rage
  • 1 Tersa Lightshatter
  • 1 The Royal Scions
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Tolarian Winds
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wonder