Pirates by roryalt

Format: Commander

Commander: Don Andres, the Renegade

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Grixis Pirate theft deck helmed by Don Andres, the Renegade. It plays on two engines: it steals and casts cards it doesn't own via Gonti, Lord of Luxury, Xanathar, Guild Kingpin, Stolen Strategy, Thief of Sanity, and friends, while also building a Pirate battle board that converts combat damage into Treasures and exiled cards. Don Andres turns every stolen permanent into a pumped menace/deathtouch threat, and his noncreature-spell trigger pays you in double Treasures for casting opposing instants and sorceries. The primary finishes are mass-theft alpha strikes: Insurrection and Spreading Insurrection steal the table's boards, Port Razer provides the extra combats needed to swing the whole stolen team at each opponent, and Rise of the Dark Realms supplies a late-game reanimation equivalent. The deck is a mid-speed value engine that snowballs through opponents' own cards before closing with one huge multi-combat turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Admiral Beckett Brass
• 1 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Brainstealer Dragon
• 1 Breeches, Brazen Plunderer
• 1 Breeches, Eager Pillager
• 1 Broadside Bombardiers
• 1 Call for Aid
• 1 Captain N'ghathrod
• 1 Captain Storm, Cosmium Raider
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Coercive Recruiter
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Control Magic
• 1 Corsair Captain
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Decadent Dragon // Expensive Taste
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Don Andres, the Renegade
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Ensnared by the Mara
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Forerunner of the Coalition
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Gemcutter Buccaneer
• 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1 Hostage Taker
• 1 Hurl Through Hell
• 1 Insurrection
• 4 Island
• 1 Izzet Boilerworks
• 1 Izzet Signet
• 1 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
• 1 Kheru Mind-Eater
• 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
• 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
• 1 Mob Rule
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Negate
• 1 Nightveil Specter
• 1 Outrageous Robbery
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Port Razer
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Protean Raider
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Ramirez DePietro, Pillager
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Secluded Courtyard
• 1 Shadowblood Ridge
• 1 Siphon Insight
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Spectral Sailor
• 1 Spreading Insurrection
• 1 Staunch Crewmate
• 1 Stolen Strategy
• 1 Storm Fleet Sprinter
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Tasha, the Witch Queen
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Temple of Epiphany
• 1 Temple of Malice
• 1 Thief of Sanity
• 1 Thriving Bluff
• 1 Thriving Isle
• 1 Thriving Moor
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Underworld Breach
• 1 Xanathar, Guild Kingpin
• 1 Xorn
• 1 You Find Some Prisoners
• 1 Zara, Renegade Recruiter