Admiral Brass by DasKautzman

Format: Commander

Commander: Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

Admiral Brass, Unsinkable commands a Grixis Pirate tribal deck that blends aggressive combat strategies with consistent graveyard reanimation. The deck builds an early fleet of low-cost Pirates and Treasure producers to accelerate into its five-mana commander. Once deployed, Admiral Brass mills cards and immediately returns key Pirate threats from the graveyard to the battlefield as 4/4 creatures with haste. The primary victory condition involves compounding wide combat damage using explosive damage doublers like Angrath's Marauders, multi-combat generators like Port Razer, and tribal stat boosters like Shared Animosity. While the deck excels at generating card flow through combat connections and recovering boards via Patriarch's Bidding, its reliance on graveyard access and low land count leave it vulnerable to targeted graveyard hate and tempo loss from early board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Admiral Beckett Brass
  • 1 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable
  • 1 Amphin Mutineer
  • 1 Angrath's Marauders
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Breeches, Brazen Plunderer
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Captivating Crew
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Coercive Recruiter
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corsair Captain
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Daring Saboteur
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dire Fleet Daredevil
  • 1 Dire Fleet Ravager
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Don Andres, the Renegade
  • 1 Drowned Secrets
  • 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 Forerunner of the Coalition
  • 1 Francisco, Fowl Marauder
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gemcutter Buccaneer
  • 1 Gyruda, Doom of Depths
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kitesail Freebooter
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
  • 1 Merchant Raiders
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 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 Siren's Ruse
  • 1 Skeleton Crew
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Sailor
  • 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 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Warkite Marauder
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Zara, Renegade Recruiter
  • 1 Zephyr Singer