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| Format | Legality |
| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Arena | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Highlander | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Historic Brawl | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Modern Beyond Horizons | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Forerunner of the Coalition
Creature — Human Pirate
When Forerunner of the Coalition enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a Pirate card, reveal it, then shuffle your library and put that card on top of it.
Whenever another Pirate enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life.
mrweaselman on
Booty Raiders
2 years ago
You're going to want to set your format to I believe Pioneer, with the cards you're running at the moment.
Take out Brineborn Cutthroat and Protean Raider. They're not all that good in pirate tribal. Take out Wily Goblin for more card draw like Chart a Course, it's going to be better late game and you're not really trying to ramp into a big finisher a turn early anyways.
If you go 4 Forerunner of the Coalition you can basically go toolbox with a similar list to what you have. Otherwise I would down to 6-8 separate pirate cards.
Imo the best pirates are Spectral Sailor, Dire Fleet Daredevil, Kitesail Freebooter, Ruin Raider, and Admiral Beckett Brass. Probably 3-4 of each of those + 4 Forerunner of the Coalition for toolbox, and 1 of each other pirate you want to include.
Fiery Cannonade is better in the sideboard. Swap in against tokens or small creature aggro.
While not explicitly pirates, Angrath, the Flame-Chained is better than Angrath, Minotaur Pirate. I try to stay away from the planeswalker deck planeswalkers. Although you could run Angrath's Fury and keep the deck like the precon I suppose.
Blackgate on
Brazen Coalition (Grixis pirates)
3 years ago
Great idea NoopyNolife! I’ll pick up a playset of Forerunner of the Coalition and see how it works out!
tiffanyann on Unique Commanders
3 years ago
Oh God here we go.
Brine Hag WTF IS THIS
Dire Fleet Ravager YES.
Elaborate Firecannon MUST INCLUDE
Fathom Fleet ANYTHING
Forerunner of the Coalition COP DFR
Gyruda, Doom of Depths SHOULD WE DO ALL EVEN HAHA NO
NoopyNolife on
Brazen Coalition (Grixis pirates)
3 years ago
Any thoughts on Forerunner of the Coalition ? For a toolbox deck a tutor like that sounds valuable?
Paeldroth on
Tracking Treasure Down - Malcolm+Vial Smasher EDH
3 years ago
Awesome suggestions! I removed some of the left field cards, added in Vampiric Tutor, Diabolic Tutor, Forerunner of the Coalition, and lands to bring me up to 36 total.
Savage1988 I haven't played the deck yet but I am eager to see how the Nightblade works out as well
ChickenBoy13 on
Admiral Beckett Brass (Pirate Tribal)
4 years ago
Hey Coercive Recruiter, Amphin Mutineer, Breeches, Brazen Plunderer, Crumbling Necropolis, Command Tower, Rakdos Signet, Dimir Signet, Port Razer, Forerunner of the Coalition, Captain Lannery Storm, Storm Fleet Sprinter, Corsair Captain, Spectral Sailor, Angrath's Marauders, Dreamcaller Siren, Lightning-Rig Crew, and Archetype of Imagination are all cards that are good for a tribal Pirate deck.
I'm always one for pirate tribal (despite me never managing to piece together me own pirate deck), so this is a +1 from me!
Omniscience_is_life on Favorite Mtg Art?
4 years ago
Forerunner of the Coalition is another of my favorites, James Ryman coming in clutch with the pirate art! Commencement of Festivities is beautiful as well: Kaladesh is the most photogenic plane by far
multimedia on
A Pirate's life, Pilfer, Pillage and Plunder
4 years ago
Hey, good start, nice Dockside Extortionist and Vampiric Tutor :)
Consider more one/two drop Pirates especially ones with flying? More overall one/two drop Pirates helps to assemble a battlefield of Pirates to attack the turn you play Brass.
- Siren Stormtamer
- Spectral Sailor
- Warkite Marauder
- Kitesail Freebooter
- Dire Fleet Daredevil
- Dire Fleet Poisoner
Forerunner of the Coalition is a Pirate tutor and it can also be a repeatable source opponents' lose life when a Pirate ETB. Ruin Raider can be repeatable draw at your end step with attacking Pirates. Anger and Wonder are good with Pirates especially Wonder giving them flying evasion. Giving all your Pirates including Brass flying can be a win condition with attacking Pirates. Brass is much better when she has haste letting her attack the turn you cast her. Pirates who can attack the turn you play them can help to trigger Brass's gain control ability quicker.
Buried Alive can tutor for both Anger/Wonder as well as one other creature and put them all into your graveyard. Can also use Buried with Phyrexian Reclamation and/or March of the Drowned as a way to tutor for Pirates put them into your graveyard and then recur them to your hand. Reclamation can be helpful repeatable recursion for Pirates since Pirates are going to die over the course of a game.
Marchesa, the Black Rose is not a Pirate, but she can be a repeatable source of reanimating Pirates. Dethrone is an attacking ability where as if a Pirate attacks your opponent with the most amount of life then that Pirate gets a +1/+1 counter. With Marchesa if that Pirate dies then it will come back to the battlefield at your end step. Metallic Mimic is a Pirate when it ETB who interacts well with Marchesa since Mimic can put a +1/+1 counter on another Pirate when it ETB.
Adding some more ramp can help game play:
Some budget lands (each $5 or less) to consider adding:
- Exotic Orchard
- Unclaimed Territory
- Crumbling Necropolis
- Shivan Reef
- Underground River
- Sunken Hollow
- Smoldering Marsh
- Sulfur Falls
- Dragonskull Summit
- Grixis Panorama
- Ash Barrens
- Evolving Wilds
- Dimir Aqueduct
- Izzet Boilerworks
- Rakdos Carnarium
These are budget land options, but of course there's many other better options for lands that are more expensive.
Good luck with your deck.
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