Alestorm Intensifies by FluffyKun

Format: Commander

Commander: Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Pirate Tribal and Graveyard Reanimator strategy commanded by Admiral Brass, Unsinkable. The primary game plan focuses on filling the graveyard with potent Pirate creatures through self-mill and discard enablers, then casting Admiral Brass on Turn 4 or 5. At combat, Brass reanimates a high-impact Pirate as a 4/4 with haste and a finality counter, immediately threatening opponents with aggressive combat triggers. Key reanimation targets like Angrath's Marauders, Port Razer, and Coercive Recruiter rapidly amplify damage, steal opposing blockers, and grant extra combat phases to close out the table by Turn 7. The deck also includes an efficient infinite damage combo with Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator and Glint-Horn Buccaneer that can finish games instantaneously once assembled. Supported by flexible interaction, creature-based theft, and steady card advantage from combat damage triggers, the deck presents a resilient, aggressive threat engine.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable
• 1 Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains
• 1 Amphin Mutineer
• 1 Angrath's Marauders
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Back in Town
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Blood Money
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Boneyard Parley
• 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
• 1 Breeches, Brazen Plunderer
• 1 Breeches, Eager Pillager
• 1 Broadside Barrage
• 1 Broadside Bombardiers
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Captain Lannery Storm
• 1 Cemetery Tampering
• 1 Coastal Piracy
• 1 Coercive Recruiter
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corsair Captain
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dire Fleet Daredevil
• 1 Dire Fleet Neckbreaker
• 1 Discreet Retreat
• 1 Double Down
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Evacuation
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Forerunner of the Coalition
• 1 Francisco, Fowl Marauder
• 1 Glint-Horn Buccaneer
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Hostage Taker
• 1 Incarnation Technique
• 7 Island
• 1 Izzet Signet
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Kitesail Larcenist
• 1 Lookout's Dispersal
• 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
• 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
• 1 Marauding Looter
• 1 Mary Read and Anne Bonny
• 1 Merchant Raiders
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Negate
• 1 Nesting Grounds
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Pirated Copy
• 1 Port Razer
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Ramirez DePietro, Pillager
• 1 Restless Reef
• 1 Restless Vents
• 1 Revel in Riches
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Ruin Raider
• 1 Seething Landscape
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Siren Stormtamer
• 1 Skeleton Crew
• 1 Staunch Crewmate
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools
• 1 The Indomitable
• 1 Timestream Navigator
• 1 Walk the Plank
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Winternight Stories
• 1 Xander's Lounge
• 1 Zara, Renegade Recruiter