Big body bass by rnope909

Format: Commander

Commander: Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Pirate typal strategy led by Admiral Brass, Unsinkable. It combines aggressive combat pressure with graveyard reanimation. In the early game, the deck deploys low-cost Pirates and mana rocks to establish mana fixing, generate Treasure tokens via Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator and Captain Lannery Storm, and stock the graveyard through self-mill and looting. On Turn 5, casting Admiral Brass triggers self-mill and immediately reanimates a fallen Pirate as an aggressive 4/4 attacker with haste. On subsequent turns, the deck compounds this advantage using powerful force multipliers like Shared Animosity, Angrath's Marauders, and Port Razer to overwhelm opponents with combat damage and creature theft. While the deck possesses resilient mid-game rebuilding through its commander's combat trigger and strong card advantage engines, it remains vulnerable to instant-speed graveyard hate and board sweepers due to a sparse suite of countermagic and protective spells.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Admiral Beckett Brass
  • 1 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable
  • 1 Amphin Mutineer
  • 1 Angrath's Marauders
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arm-Mounted Anchor
  • 1 Azure Fleet Admiral
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Breeches, Brazen Plunderer
  • 1 Broadside Bombardiers
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Captivating Crew
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Coercive Recruiter
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corsair Captain
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Daring Saboteur
  • 1 Departed Deckhand
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dire Fleet Daredevil
  • 1 Dire Fleet Ravager
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Don Andres, the Renegade
  • 1 Enterprising Scallywag
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 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 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
  • 1 King Narfi's Betrayal
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
  • 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 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 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 The Grim Captain's Locker
  • 1 The Indomitable
  • 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 Windfall
  • 1 Zara, Renegade Recruiter