Coastal Piracy

Enchantment

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

clayperce on Death from Above

1 month ago

Yeah, Salubrious' manabase tool has probably improved the play of my decks more than any single thing out there.

FWIW, here's where I'd start with Silumgar: Silumgar First Look ... a "strong" manabase, with a 0.4 turn overall average delay, and a 0.5 turn average delay for Silumgar.

IN:
- A bunch of inexpensive untapped lands and a couple more utility lands.
- A few more Swamps and mana rocks.
- Bloodline Pretender, Adaptive Automaton, and Graveshifter: Solid utility Shapeshifters, er Dragons.
- Feywild Visitor: Generally solid, and SUPERB against go-wide decks.
- Roiling Dragonstorm: Repeatable draw for just {1}{U}? Love it!

OUT:
- As many tapped lands as possible.
- Moved a bunch of Dragons to the Sideboard, focusing on the 6-mana ones (which compete directly with Silumgar). I'm would honestly drop Feral Deathgorger and Young Blue Dragon entirely ... I LOVE their flexibility, but 3 power for 5+ mana is too meh for me.
- Revel in Riches: A great card, but 5 mana is a LOT to spend for it.
- Vedalken Humiliator: Getting Metalcraft is just too hard in this deck.
- Reconnaissance Mission and Coastal Piracy: GREAT cards, but 15x card advantage and 7x card selection effects should be enough.
- Voracious Bibliophile: A decent enough Dragon, but without the card draw it's not great.

TWO MORE THOUGHTS:
- I REALLY like Massacre Girl, Known Killer in the deck. If I dropped a Land, this would be the card I added.
- Reflections of Littjara is also a great card for a deck like this, but we'd need to either drop some Legendary Dragons or add a bit more recursion to make it worth the 5 mana. I wouldn't want to do that at this point, but maybe as the deck evolves ...

Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk ... hopefully there's something useful in there! :-D

Good luck (and good skill!) with the deck; cheers!

greyninja on Goblin Blizzard

3 months ago

Looks super fun {U}{R} I've always wanted to build Ovika

I might suggest more permanents over instants/sorceries for repeated value. For ramp Thought Vessel, Mind Stone, Sol Ring, Pyromancer's Goggles. What goes well with go-wide decks are a lot of Coastal Piracy-type cards

Curse of the Swine, Pongify, and/or Rapid Hybridization could replace Run Away Together, Unsubstantiate, etc

+1 from me!

Last_Laugh on Card draw when adding +1/+1 …

4 months ago

You could always forego the +1+1 counter hoop. Ohran Frostfang, Toski, Bearer of Secrets, Bident of Thassa, Coastal Piracy, The Indomitable, and Reconnaissance Mission immediately come to mind in those colors.

KongMing on Should Coastal Piracy have the …

11 months ago

Coastal Piracy, as is, but with the subtype Pirate. Better reprints like Bident of Thassa and Reconnaissance Mission have been printed, so it wouldn't break any power ceilings.

plakjekaas on What is your favorite mono …

1 year ago

How can you be into mono blue without actually having a deck to play in the color? Is it a favorite constructed deck that you'd like to translate to commander? How can you like the color most, if after months of starting topics about this, you didn't even settle on a commander yet? That makes it hard to help you.

I personally detest mono blue, I only made a Brawl deck to make sure I can efficiently do my dailies on Arena if they're blue. My commander of choice is Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar. With a bunch of evasive creatures, Coastal Piracy-effects and interaction, you can keep busy casting spells all the time, and it resembles the mono blue standard decks of the past decade.

Last_Laugh on Alela's Artifacts Makes Tokens Do Stuff

1 year ago

Nice to see another Alela list and good job keeping your avg mana cost low. I have some suggestions for you and I'll try to break it down by category and keep things budget friendly. If you're picking up what I'm putting down and need help with suggested cuts, just holler.

CARD DRAW:

Breena, the Demagogue is amazing here. It incentivizes opponents to attack one another for card draw while your creatures get the +1+1 counters and you get the draw/counters twice for attacking the 2 opponents with higher life.

Starscream, Power Hungry  ^Flip brings the Monarch mechanic into the game which will draw you an extra card at your end step but you'll also smack an opponent for 2 for every card you draw while you're the Monarch.

Plumb the Forbidden in response to a boardwipe ensures you have a grip full of cards to redeploy. Instant speed and pseudo dodging counterspells makes this card.

Reconnaissance Mission/Bident of Thassa/The Indomitable/Coastal Piracy - I personally run 3 of these effects... they will draw you a ton of cards.

CREATURE BUFFS:

Skyhunter Strike Force will buff all your attackers +3+3 just for attacking all 3 opponents. Bonus points for not needing to attack itself.

Nykthos Paragon because your commander is an evasive lifelinker and this guy is an enchantment. The low bar here is you hit for 2 with Alela and everyone gets 2x +1+1 counters, then 4 the next turn, then 8, and that's assuming Alela only had 2 power to start.

Felidar Retreat is another go-wide counters effect that works wonders here.

MISC.:

Fanatical Devotion let's you sac tokens to save your actual creatures.

Feel free to check out my list for ideas. Upvotes on any of my decks are appreciated. Alela's Aerodynamics: A Crash Course

RiotRunner789 on

1 year ago

I'd swap Graceful Adept for Library of Leng. Cheaper, harder to remove, and added bonus against discard.

Cancel for any other counterspell. There are plenty of 1UU with upside such as personal favorite of mine, Admiral's Order. Rewind, Dissipate, Unwind and Negate are also solid budget options. Personally not a fan of Mana Leak-esk counters since if an opponent has a ton of Mana, they become useless. Also, Defense Grid is an odd choice for a blue deck since it hurts your own counters on your opponents turn.

I'd consider trying to find room for a card or cards like Coastal Piracy, Bident of Thassa, and The Indomitable.

Single protection to consider, Mithril Coat is amazing, Commander's Plate always pulls a ton of weight in mon color (may hurt commander's unblockable agaimst another monoblue but otherwise really helps), Dive Down not amazing, just a pet card when it was in standard.

Last_Laugh on Felix Five-Boots - Reach for the Sky (v0.5)

1 year ago

Ohran Frostfang, Toski, Bearer of Secrets, Reconnaissance Mission, Bident of Thassa, Coastal Piracy, The Indomitable, Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor, and Marcus, Mutant Mayor are all excellent draw engines here. I personally recommend running 3-5 of these but especially Ohran.