Malcolm, Siren of The Flying Dutchman | V-OJT

Commander / EDH* Artifact Combo Pirate Primer RUW (Jeskai, America) Theme/Gimmick Treasure Voltron

Beebles

Lands (33)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Axgard Armory
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Fomori Vault
• 1x Glacial Fortress
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 2x Island
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Mystic Gate
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Spectator Seating
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Training Center
• 1x Windswept Heath

Interaction (13)

• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dispatch
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Ghirapur AEther Grid
• 1x Heliod's Intervention
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Indomitable Creativity
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vanquish the Horde

Counters (6)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Siren Stormtamer
• 1x Spell Swindle

Multiply (6)

• 1x Academy Manufactor
• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Fury Storm
• 1x Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Mondrak, Glory Dominus

Protection (3)

• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Siren Stormtamer

Draw/Filter (19)

• 1x Academy Manufactor
• 1x Breeches, Eager Pillager
• 1x Commit / Memory
• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Echo of Eons
• 1x Fomori Vault
• 1x Glint-Horn Buccaneer
• 1x Idol of Oblivion
• 1x Indomitable Creativity
• 1x Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
• 1x Professional Face-Breaker
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Reverse Engineer
• 1x Shimmer Dragon
• 1x Spectral Sailor
• 1x Thoughtcast
• 1x Universal Surveillance
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 1x Whirlwind of Thought

Revel In Riches (16)

• 1x Ghirapur AEther Grid
• 1x Goldspan Dragon
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Indomitable Creativity
• 1x Ingenious Artillerist
• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Magda, Brazen Outlaw
• 1x Professional Face-Breaker
• 1x Reckless Fireweaver
• 1x Reverse Engineer
• 1x Shimmer Dragon
• 1x Storm the Vault  ^Flip
• 1x Thoughtcast
• 1x Universal Surveillance
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 1x Whir of Invention

Pirate (7)

• 1x Breeches, Eager Pillager
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Glint-Horn Buccaneer
• 1x Lightning-Rig Crew
• 1x Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
• 1x Siren Stormtamer
• 1x Spectral Sailor

Tutors (7)

• 1x Axgard Armory
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Magda, Brazen Outlaw
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Whir of Invention

Ping (5)

• 1x Ghirapur AEther Grid
• 1x Glint-Horn Buccaneer
• 1x Ingenious Artillerist
• 1x Lightning-Rig Crew
• 1x Reckless Fireweaver

Become A Pirate (2)

• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Maskwood Nexus

Commanders (2)

Ramp (14)

• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Goldspan Dragon
• 1x Guild Artisan
• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Professional Face-Breaker
• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Storm the Vault  ^Flip
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer

Treasure (11)

• 1x Ancient Copper Dragon
• 1x Breeches, Eager Pillager
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Goldspan Dragon
• 1x Guild Artisan
• 1x Magda, Brazen Outlaw
• 1x Professional Face-Breaker
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Spell Swindle
• 1x Storm the Vault  ^Flip

Mana Sink (6)

• 1x Glint-Horn Buccaneer
• 1x Heliod's Intervention
• 1x Indomitable Creativity
• 1x Spectral Sailor
• 1x Universal Surveillance
• 1x Urza, Lord High Artificer

Buff (3)

• 1x Embercleave
• 1x Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
• 1x Shimmering Wings

Recursion (2)

• 1x Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1x Underworld Breach

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Maybeboard

Draw/Filter (14)

• 1x Breeches, Brazen Plunderer
• 1x Chief Jim Hopper
• 1x Jeska's Will
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Ophidian Eye
• 1x Quicksmith Genius
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Smuggler's Share
• 1x Thought Monitor
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Treasure Map  ^Flip
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Windfall

Treasure (6)

• 1x Brass's Bounty
• 1x Captain Lannery Storm
• 1x Monologue Tax
• 1x Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1x Smuggler's Share
• 1x Treasure Map  ^Flip

Multiply (4)

• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Mechanized Production
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Spark Double

Protection (4)

• 1x Akroma's Will
• 1x Bastion Protector
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Flawless Maneuver

Recursion (3)

• 1x Dire Fleet Daredevil
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Trading Post

Other (1)

• 1x Vedalken Humiliator

Revel In Riches (12)

• 1x All That Glitters
• 1x Filigree Angel
• 1x Havoc Jester
• 1x Hellkite Igniter
• 1x Lumengrid Sentinel
• 1x Martyr's Bond
• 1x Mechanized Production
• 1x Rise and Shine
• 1x Saheeli, the Gifted
• 1x Summoning Station
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Whirler Rogue

Lands (7)

• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Treasure Vault
• 1x Urza's Saga

Tutors (6)

• 1x Arcum Dagsson
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Quiet Speculation

Become A Pirate (3)

• 1x Captain's Hook
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Unnatural Selection

Counters (2)

• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Swan Song

Pirate (1)

• 1x Zephyr Singer

Interaction (11)

• 1x Amphin Mutineer
• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Havoc Jester
• 1x Lumengrid Sentinel
• 1x Martyr's Bond
• 1x Resculpt
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Sigil of Sleep
• 1x Slash the Ranks
• 1x Warkite Marauder
• 1x Wear / Tear

Buff (10)

• 1x Akroma's Will
• 1x All That Glitters
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Departed Deckhand
• 1x Duelist's Heritage
• 1x Merchant Raiders
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x True Conviction
• 1x Whirler Rogue
• 1x Zephyr Singer

Ping (4)

• 1x Firebrand Archer
• 1x Havoc Jester
• 1x Kessig Flamebreather
• 1x Thermo-Alchemist

Ramp (3)

• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Monologue Tax
• 1x Treasure Map  ^Flip

Mana Sink (2)

• 1x Hellkite Igniter
• 1x Mirror Entity

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"Going down with the ship is just the beginning"

Hello there and welcome to my Akiri, Line-Slinger/Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator pirate treasure deck

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Treasure Tribal

Today, treasures are pretty much running rampant in EDH. It’s weird then to realize that for quite some time, treasures were more of a niche and janky thing. Not many treasure cards were around in the beginning. Since their introduction in Ixalan I had tried many times to make a treasure tribal deck work, but each time I could not get it to a spot where I really liked it. It wasn't until Commander Legends came around with Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator when I finally got it into a shape where I was really happy with it.

Despite the recent increase of treasure support in Jund colors, I still prefer the Jeskai approach to treasure tribal that Malcolm and Akiri bring to the table. Not only is it potent and fun in gameplay, I really dig the flavor of combining treasure, pirates, outlaws and dragons into one deck. And the fact that Jeskai matches the colors of the Flying Dutchman 🇳🇱 is icing on the cake. If you are curious to this approach to treasure tribal, then please come along for this pingy pirate journey of risky adventures, frugal dragons and endless riches!

The Frugal Dutchmen

The goal of the deck is to go on an adventure with my crew of pirates and other outlaws and gather a huge amount of treasure. Then, instead of spending our riches, we are just going to sit on our hoard like a dragon and find other ways to benefit from having many treasures. Whether it's drawing cards off of them through Shimmer Dragon or Reverse Engineer, making our second commander Akiri, Line-Slinger stronger, getting crazy mana advantage via Inspiring Statuary or Vault of Catlacan, trading them for something more valuable via Indomitable Creativity or damaging our opponents with our wealth through Ghirapur AEther Grid or Reckless Fireweaver.

Get Rich or Die Trying

• We can get treasure through Malcom by attacking. The amount of treasures we get can be increased by giving Malcolm double strike, doubling up the Malcolm triggers through Anointed Procession and Professional Face-Breaker, or by adding Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar.
• Other pirates can join the fray. Pirates with evasion like Siren Stormtamer are especially valuable. Lightning-Rig Crew and Glint-Horn Buccaneer can even directly damage all opponents at once. The latter will go infinite when paring him with Malcolm.
• There are a few stowaways on board that would love to become a pirate. Reckless Fireweaver and Ingenious Artillerist both combo out with Malcolm if we can turn them into a pirate, which is what Maskwood Nexus and Arcane Adaptation can provide.
• The two dragons Goldspan Dragon and Ancient Copper Dragon can join the pirate attack plan for getting the riches. We can also repeatedly target Goldspan Dragon with Shimmering Wings to get a bunch of treasure that way. A nice draw engine with Whirlwind of Thought, but also provides another way to ping out the table with Reckless Fireweaver and Ingenious Artillerist.
• Then of course there is Smothering Tithe, which can get out of hand with a wheel effect, an Anointed Procession or a second one through Mirrormade. I'm running enchantment tutors to find these key pieces more reliably, as this is the best alternative route to get huge amounts of treasure.

Revel In Riches

As soon as our treasure deposits start building up, the deck will start to accumulate value through them. It's a great feeling to turn all those treasures into carddraw through Shimmer Dragon, or to transform them from Lotus Petals into moxen with the improvise cards, Urza and Vault of Catlacan. How to best use each of the little trinkets is a fun mental exercise sometimes as moments will occur when they represent a lot of different options.

With all that treasure ready to be spent, we can also afford to run some greedy instant spells to wreak some havoc. With Fury Storm and Spell Swindle being good examples. We're also running some on-theme mana sinks, such as Spectral Sailor and Urza, Lord High Artificer, in case we end up getting super rich.

The deck can win through commander damage by slamming a Shimmering Wings or Embercleave on Akiri, through Hellkite Tyrant/Mechanized Production, or via the following combo routes:

• Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator + Maskwood Nexus/Arcane Adaptation + Reckless Fireweaver/Ingenious Artillerist = Infinite Treasure and Infinite Damage
• Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator + Glint-Horn Buccaneer = Cycle through your deck, get a ton of treasure and deal a lot of damage
• Glint-Horn Buccaneer + Curiosity + more cards in hand than your hand size = deal 1 damage for each card still in your library at the end of turn
• Goldspan Dragon + Shimmering Wings + Reckless Fireweaver/Ingenious Artillerist = Infinite Damage
• Goldspan Dragon + Shimmering Wings + Anointed Procession = Infinite Mana

Intended Power Level

This deck has become quite edgy in terms of power level. The efficient combo lines combined with lower-costed commanders is already quite potent, while the treasure deposits allow this deck to hold up answers a lot of the time. At first I tried to dial back a bit, but I have now embraced the relative high power from what I usually build. I also find it hilarious that such a janky idea turned out to be so competitive. It's not quite cEDH, but it's nice to have a deck that can join such games and at least have a fighting chance.

I do think this deck can be made a lot more casual if you dig the treasure tribal but want to avoid playing at this power level. By removing the combos and some of the efficient mana rocks and interaction, you create room for alternative strategies such as more emphasis on pirate tribal or effects like Rise and Shine or Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer. On the other hand, you could also make this deck way more competitive and go for a true cEDH deck, focusing on the interactions with Glint-Horn Buccaneer and Reckless Fireweaver. I will keep it hovering somewhere in between for now :).

Category (Jank - Low - Mid - High - Competitive)

High

So far, playing this deck has been a blast! Please let me know if you have ideas for cards to include, or directions to take this list I have not yet considered. Also feel free to upvote the deck if you liked it :).

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GL & HF

Beebles

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Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 3 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.82
Tokens	Clue, Construct 0/0 C, Eldrazi 10/10 C, Elephant 3-3 G, Food, Gold, Shapeshifter 2/2 U, Treasure
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