Edward Kenway by Gfranceschini

Format: Commander

Commander: Edward Kenway

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Grixis artifact-combat engine commanded by Edward Kenway. Its primary game plan revolves around deploying low-cost Pirates, Assassins, and Vehicles during the first three turns, followed by casting Edward Kenway on Turn 4 to establish a self-fueling Treasure generation engine. As tapped Pirates and crewed Vehicles generate Treasure tokens on each end step, the deck simultaneously leverages combat damage triggers from Vehicles to exile and cast cards from opponents' libraries. The deck transitions into a lethal threat around Turn 6 by utilizing its banked Treasure stockpile to cast mass-animation finishers such as Cyberdrive Awakener and Depthshaker Titan, or high-impact artifact aristocrat drains via Marionette Master, Mirkwood Bats, and Torment of Hailfire. While lacking fast cEDH-tier mana or tutor redundancy, the list features dense internal synergy, modal double-faced land resilience, and solid backup engines that allow it to consistently threaten table-wide finishes on Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Adrestia
  • 1 Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Breeches, Eager Pillager
  • 1 Brotherhood Vertibird
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Captain Storm, Cosmium Raider
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cosima, God of the Voyage // The Omenkeel
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cultivator's Caravan
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demonic Junker
  • 1 Depthshaker Titan
  • 1 Draconic Visitor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Edward Kenway
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fateful Discovery
  • 1 Fearless Swashbuckler
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Great Gilded Boat
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Imposter Mech
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kitesail Larcenist
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Mary Read and Anne Bonny
  • 1 Mastermind Plum
  • 1 Mindlink Mech
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mole Module
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mu Yanling, Wind Rider
  • 1 Mutinous Massacre
  • 1 Nautiloid Ship
  • 1 Obsessive Pursuit
  • 1 Oscorp Industries
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Ramirez DePietro, Pillager
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rooftop Bypass
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Setzer, Wandering Gambler
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shao Jun
  • 1 Shimmer Dragon
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Smuggler's Copter
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Indomitable
  • 1 The Regalia
  • 1 The Thanos-Copter
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Timestream Navigator
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Unauthorized Exit
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul