BR Pirates

Standard* Aggro BR (Rakdos) Midrange Red Deck Wins Weenie

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Support (15)

• 2x Dire Fleet Poisoner
• 2x Dusk Legion Zealot
• 2x Fell Flagship
• 3x Forerunner of the Coalition
• 3x Kitesail Freebooter
• 3x Ruin Raider

Defense (6)

• 4x Abrade
• 2x March of the Drowned

Colourless (2)

• 2x Field of Ruin

Aggro-ness (7)

• 3x Dire Fleet Captain
• 2x Dire Fleet Poisoner
• 2x Kari Zev, Skyship Raider

Aggro-est (7)

• 4x Daring Buccaneer
• 3x Grasping Scoundrel

DualLands (6)

• 4x Dragonskull Summit
• 2x Unclaimed Territory

LandSupport (6)

• 3x Evolving Wilds
• 2x Field of Ruin
• 1x Scavenger Grounds

BasicLands (10)

• 4x Mountain
• 6x Swamp

Finisher (5)

• 2x Dinosaur Stampede
• 3x Lightning Strike

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Sideboard

Defense (8)

• 2x Chandra's Defeat
• 2x Lost Legacy
• 2x Never / Return
• 2x Vona's Hunger

Support (7)

• 1x Aethersphere Harvester
• 2x Golden Demise
• 2x Never / Return
• 2x Vona's Hunger

Aggro-est (2)

• 2x Deadeye Tracker

Hate (2)

• 2x Blood Sun

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BR Pirate aggro build. Only about $85

even though I may have any particular card, Insert Example Here, it is also an aggressive card. Well, most of this deck fits under that category. It's only really the cards labelled as 'aggro' that just do the one thing

Mainboard Stuff

Support

Ruin Raider is pretty good, because at most, he's a bump in the night, but most probably either a free draw (as a land) or a Shock to the face. The deck is comprised of 22 lands (free draw), 7 1-Drops 21 2-drops and 10 3-drops. with sideboarding, it kind of sucks that Never is technically a 7-cost card, so that's potentially fatal after 3-5 turns of play.

there's a few ways that we can win. There's Forerunner of the Coalition which drains life each time a pirate enters play, Dinosaur Stampede , if you get out for a big, underblocked attack, and then Fell Flagship is kind of like a cheap, slightly less powerful Dire Fleet Neckbreaker.

Lightning Strike is there for that extra little kick for the win. Say you get them down to 2 life from an almost-final blow from dinosaur stampede. Easy option. Just Lightning Strike.

there's the defensive spells, which are pretty self-explanatory - March of the Drowned gives me back 2 cards, and Ultimate Removal Spell for the Current Meta.

Sideboard Hate

as for the sideboard, we've Chandra's Defeat, because Chandra, Torch of Defiance is one of the most powerful planeswalkers in standard and arguably modern at the moment. there's also Glorybringer who, coincidentally, also gets hit by Chandra's Defeat.

Standard Blood Moon steals away stuff like Path of Mettle   or any of the Ixalan flip lands -- itlomoc, cradle of the suns, Temple of Aclazotz, Treasure Cove, Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin, Spitfire Bastion, Primal Wellspring, Adanto, the First Fort, etc. -- and even Evolving Wilds. It also gives a draw, which could come in handy somewhere.

a bit of Planeswalker removal, chandra' defeat, New Version of To The Slaughter, Catch-Most Pre-Battlefield Removal, Non-Pirate Aggro Destroyer, and A little bit of lifegain and finally Some Graveyard Hate

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	WUG
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 11 Rares 19 - 2 Uncommons 17 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.03
Tokens	City's Blessing, Ragavan, Zombie 2/2 B