Pirate rarr 50$ challenge by noahhunt

Format: Commander

Commander: Don Andres, the Renegade

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis mid-range strategy centered on Don Andres, the Renegade. Its main game plan is to exile and cast opponents' cards, turning stolen creatures into lethal Pirate threats with +2/+2, menace, and deathtouch while gaining Treasure acceleration from noncreature spells. The deck supplements combat damage with artifact and spellslinger burn engines, including Marionette Master, Guttersnipe, and Reckless Fireweaver. Because the deck relies on combat connections and creature permanents rather than compact combos, it plays at an interactive, synergistic pace. It applies pressure around Turn 7 and closes out games around Turn 10 through incremental attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blink of an Eye
  • 1 Blue Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Breeches, Eager Pillager
  • 1 Brineborn Cutthroat
  • 1 Captain Storm, Cosmium Raider
  • 1 Chart a Course
  • 1 Command Bridge
  • 1 Covetous Urge
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Don Andres, the Renegade
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dreadhorde Arcanist
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fevered Suspicion
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Firemind Vessel
  • 1 Firemind's Research
  • 1 Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Improbable Alliance
  • 1 Irencrag Pyromancer
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
  • 1 Kitesail Larcenist
  • 1 Light Up the Stage
  • 1 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Memory Lapse
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 One with the Machine
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Possibility Technician
  • 1 Preacher of the Schism
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Runaway Steam-Kin
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Siphon Insight
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spectral Sailor
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spyglass Siren
  • 1 Stolen Strategy
  • 1 Storm Fleet Sprinter
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Belligerent
  • 1 The Mirari Conjecture
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 2 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Towering Viewpoint
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Vaan, Street Thief
  • 1 Wail of the Forgotten
  • 1 Whirler Rogue
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Wrenn's Resolve