Yo Ho by user2906307

Format: Commander

Commander: Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Pirate tribal strategy commanded by Admiral Brass, Unsinkable. It fuses aggressive tempo, combat-damage triggers, and graveyard reanimation. Early turns establish mana acceleration using 2-CMC mana rocks and cheap Treasure-producing Pirates such as Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator and Captain Lannery Storm. On Turn 4 or 5, the commander enters to mill cards and immediately return a fallen Pirate from the graveyard as a 4/4 with haste. The deck mitigates the downside of finality counters using counter-manipulation tools like Power Conduit, Soul Diviner, and Nesting Grounds, allowing repeated recursion of key utility creatures. The midgame leverages powerful combat saboteur engines like Coastal Piracy and Kindred Discovery to maintain high card flow, before closing games around Turn 8 through overwhelming combat steps amplified by Angrath's Marauders, Port Razer, or one-sided creature bouncing with Raise the Palisade.

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 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breeches, Brazen Plunderer
  • 1 Breeches, Eager Pillager
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Coercive Recruiter
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corsair Captain
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dire Fleet Daredevil
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Double Down
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enterprising Scallywag
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Forerunner of the Coalition
  • 1 Francisco, Fowl Marauder
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gemcutter Buccaneer
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kitesail Larcenist
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lookout's Dispersal
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
  • 1 Mary Read and Anne Bonny
  • 1 Merchant Raiders
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Port Razer
  • 1 Power Conduit
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ramirez DePietro, Pillager
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Skeleton Crew
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Diviner
  • 1 Staunch Crewmate
  • 1 Storm Fleet Negotiator
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 The Indomitable
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Warkite Marauder
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Zara, Renegade Recruiter