Overview:

Edward Kenway leads a Grixis Pirate/Vehicle deck focused on generating Treasure through combat and leveraging stolen cards. The strategy revolves around deploying Pirates/Vehicles, creating mana advantage via Treasures, and disrupting opponents by exiling their libraries. While synergistic, the deck lacks infinite combos and relies on incremental value, positioning it as a focused casual build with moderate speed and resilience.

Primer:

Core Strategy:
This deck aims to flood the board with Pirates and Vehicles, using Edward's end-step Treasure generation to accelerate into big plays. Key lines include:

1. Early Game: Deploy low-cost Pirates (Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, Spectral Sailor) and crew efficient Vehicles (Smuggler's Copter, Subterranean Schooner).
2. Mid-Game Engine: Use Edward's Treasures to cast high-impact Vehicles (Skysovereign, Consul Flagship, Nautiloid Ship) while exiling opponents' cards via combat damage triggers.
3. Win Conditions: Overwhelm with:
   • Stolen threats from opponents' libraries
   • Time Sieve + Treasures for extra turns
   • Conspiracy-enhanced Treasure generation into massive mana advantage

Mulligan Priorities:

• Keep hands with 3 lands and early Pirates/Vehicles
• Prioritize enablers like Gemcutter Buccaneer (Treasure synergy) or Fearless Swashbuckler (card filtering)
• Avoid hands without early board presence

Key Tips:

• Use Conspiracy to make all creatures count for Edward's Treasure triggers
• The Belligerent enables top-deck plays with its attack trigger
• Time Sieve converts excess Treasures into game-ending extra turns

Avoid Traps:

• Overextending into board wipes before establishing recursion
• Wasting exiles cards without sufficient mana (prioritize low-CMC steals)

Weaknesses:

Critical:

• No protection for key pieces like Conspiracy or Time Sieve
• Relies entirely on combat damage for value generation

Moderate:

• Slow recovery from board wipes
• Limited answers to flyers/evasive threats

Minor:

• Mana base vulnerable to nonbasic land hate

Most Important Cards:

• Conspiracy
• Breeches, Eager Pillager
• Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
• Time Sieve
• Pitiless Plunderer
• Gemcutter Buccaneer
• The Belligerent
• Demonic Tutor
• Diabolic Tutor
• Skysovereign, Consul Flagship

Attribute Ratings:

Speed: 5/10

• Goldfish win ~T9-11 through combat/extra turns
• Requires multiple combat phases to assemble lethal

Resilience: 6/10

• Moderate recursion (March of the Drowned, Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains)
• Vulnerable to repeated board wipes

Consistency: 7/10

• 4 tutors + 8+ card draw engines
• Redundant Treasure generators

Interaction: 5/10

• Limited removal (Chaos Warp, Lookout's Dispersal)
• No free counterspells

Rating Justification:

This deck exceeds precon-level synergy (Rubric 4.0-4.5) through its Treasure engine and theft mechanics but lacks the speed/protection of optimized builds (6.0+). The focused casual designation (5.0-5.5) fits due to:

• Clear gameplan with multiple value engines
• Tutor-backed consistency
• Moderate interaction suite
• T9-11 realistic win timeline

Power level: 5.0 - 5.5