Pirates New by ham2970

Format: Commander

Commander: Francisco, Fowl Marauder and Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Dimir Pirates tribal deck helmed by the partner pair Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator and Francisco, Fowl Marauder. The primary game plan is to deploy cheap evasive Pirates, attack to trigger Malcolm's treasure generation, and convert those treasures into game-winning effects. The deck's core engine revolves around Malcolm creating a Treasure token for each opponent dealt combat damage by a Pirate, while Francisco provides incremental card selection via explore triggers. The treasures fuel a compact combo package: Time Sieve for extra turns (often looping into a lock), Mirkwood Bats and Marionette Master for direct drain, and the alternate win conditions Mechanized Production and Revel in Riches. Academy Manufactor triples token output, accelerating both the drain and the extra-turn engine. The deck supplements its aggro-combo plan with a dense interaction suite of counterspells and instant-speed removal, allowing it to protect its key pieces and disrupt opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Academy Ruins
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Cephalid Coliseum
• 1 Changeling Outcast
• 1 Chart a Course
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
• 1 Cloud Pirates
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cover of Darkness
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Deadeye Tracker
• 1 Dig Through Time
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Eagle Vision
• 1 Enduring Curiosity
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faerie Mastermind
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Flare of Denial
• 1 Flow State
• 1 Francisco, Fowl Marauder
• 1 Gifts Ungiven
• 1 Grasping Scoundrel
• 1 Greedy Freebooter
• 1 Grim Hireling
• 1 Haunted One
• 1 Helm of the Host
• 1 Hostage Taker
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Inventors' Fair
• 5 Island
• 1 Kitesail Larcenist
• 1 Long River's Pull
• 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
• 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
• 1 March of the Drowned
• 1 Marionette Master
• 1 Mechanized Production
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mothdust Changeling
• 1 Muddle the Mixture
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Narset's Reversal
• 1 Negate
• 1 Nettlecyst
• 1 Oaken Siren
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Patchwork Banner
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Perplex
• 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1 Plaza of Heroes
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Revel in Riches
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 River of Tears
• 1 Scour for Scrap
• 1 Seat of the Synod
• 1 Secluded Courtyard
• 1 Siren Stormtamer
• 1 Slash, Evil Turtle from Dimension X
• 1 Slip Out the Back
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spectral Sailor
• 1 Spire of Industry
• 1 Springleaf Drum
• 1 Spyglass Siren
• 1 Steelswarm Operator
• 1 Stock Up
• 1 Storm Fleet Negotiator
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 The Indomitable
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Time Sieve
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Undercity Sewers
• 1 Universal Automaton
• 1 Vault of Whispers
• 1 Walk the Plank
• 1 Watery Grave