Admiral Brass by user6945462

Format: Commander

Commander: Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Pirate tribal and reanimator strategy led by Admiral Brass, Unsinkable. It focuses on deploying low-cost, evasive Pirates and mana rocks in the opening turns, filling the graveyard through self-mill, looting, and explore triggers. Once Admiral Brass enters on Turn 4, she immediately reanimates fallen Pirates as 4/4 creatures with haste during combat. The deck escalates rapidly on Turn 5 by reanimating heavy combat payoffs such as Angrath's Marauders, Dire Fleet Ravager, or Port Razer, or by resolving anthems like Shared Animosity. Rich card flow engines like Bident of Thassa and Breeches, Brazen Plunderer keep the hand refueled with opposing spells and fresh threats. While vulnerable to targeted graveyard exile and board sweepers, the deck leverages mass recursion via Patriarch's Bidding and steady Treasure ramp to maintain consistent pressure and close the game around Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Admiral Beckett Brass
  • 1 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable
  • 1 Admiral's Order
  • 1 Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains
  • 1 Amphin Mutineer
  • 1 Angrath's Marauders
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arm-Mounted Anchor
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Breeches, Brazen Plunderer
  • 1 Breeches, Eager Pillager
  • 1 Broadside Bombardiers
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Captain Storm, Cosmium Raider
  • 1 Captain Vargus Wrath
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Coercive Recruiter
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corsair Captain
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dire Fleet Captain
  • 1 Dire Fleet Daredevil
  • 1 Dire Fleet Neckbreaker
  • 1 Dire Fleet Ravager
  • 1 Don Andres, the Renegade
  • 1 Edward Kenway
  • 1 Enterprising Scallywag
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fiery Cannonade
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Francisco, Fowl Marauder
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gemcutter Buccaneer
  • 1 Ghost of Ramirez DePietro
  • 1 Gutless Plunderer
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kitesail Larcenist
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
  • 1 Malcolm, the Eyes
  • 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 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 Spyglass Siren
  • 1 Staunch Crewmate
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Grim Captain's Locker
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vaan, Street Thief
  • 1 Warkite Marauder
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Zara, Renegade Recruiter