Pitiless Plunderer

Creature — Human Pirate

Whenever another creature you control dies (is put into the graveyard from the battlefield, tokens are put into the graveyard before they cease to exist), create a colourless Treasure artifact token with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any colour."

Combos

• Darkblast + Fecundity + Pitiless Plunderer
• Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Pitiless Plunderer + Walking Ballista
• Ashnod's Altar + Pashalik Mons + Pitiless Plunderer
• Altar of Dementia + Korozda Guildmage + Pitiless Plunderer
• Pitiless Plunderer + Thopter Assembly + Time Sieve
• Pitiless Plunderer + Sifter of Skulls
• Ashnod the Uncaring + Pitiless Plunderer + Spawning Pit

Tokens

• Treasure

Legality

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
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

TotallyNotAMimic on Lesion Control [Sorin's Vengeful Plague]

2 weeks ago

This deck focuses on stalling opponents with pox and lifegain long enough to set up an infinite combo with Pitiless Plunderer, Ashnod's Altar, and Reassembling Skeleton with other cards to fill the combo.

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E10perrotti on They will grab your nuts-Chatterfang

4 weeks ago

sqrllz Thanks I am trying to get feedback so I can make it not just fast but also fun. Do you have any Ideas like what to take out or add? I will add Pitiless Plunderer because I have the other combo piece of the combo in my deck and the Ivy Lane Denizen + Scurry Oak combo. I feel like there are not enough lands and I am wondering if there is any ideas for that

sqrllz on They will grab your nuts-Chatterfang

4 weeks ago

Pitiless Plunderer would be a cool add

king-saproling on Dark Apostle

1 month ago

Personally I would make these swaps:

Unburial Rites -> Second Sunrise
Gilded Lotus -> Pitiless Plunderer
Mind's Eye -> Grim Haruspex
Indulgent Tormentor -> Species Specialist

Masterful on Necronomicon | Teysa Karlov | Primer

1 month ago

Housegheist New Elesh Norn  ^Flip is a pillow fort card on the front, which while useful in a vacuum, doesn't synergize with any of our cards or strategy. I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but what does Norn's frontside have to do with Teysa's second ability? Her sac outlet is a nice addition, but 3 mana and having to sac at least 3 creatures is a tough restriction when we have access to much better sac outlets. For 4 mana, our cards like Luminous Broodmoth, Pitiless Plunderer, or Battle Angels of Tyr can end games if left unchecked. Norn is much slower and needs additional investment to start providing value. She's not bad, but I think we have better options.

thesilentpyro on Chatterfang's Nuthouse of Cards

1 month ago

Considering:

• Fae Offering
  ++ Introduces a fun little minigame. ++ Exciting with Academy Manufactor
  -- Unable to trigger on opponents' turns without flash creatures, but that's minor
• Victimize
  ++ Pet reanimation spell, fantastic with with tokens
• Invasion of Ikoria  ^Flip (+ maybe Vampire Hexmage)
  -- Can't fetch amazing humans (Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, Species Specialist, Eternal Witness, Pitiless Plunderer, Jaheira, Friend of the Forest)
  ++ Less salt-inducing wincon than Natural Order->Craterhoof Behemoth or a giant Finale of Devastation
  ++ Battles are a fun minigame when not fetching Hexmage
  -- Hexmage is lackluster on its own
  -- Not as guaranteed of a win condition as a big Finale
  -- The Invasion being a permanent opens it up to removal before it flips
• Llanowar Elves et al
  ++ Get Chatterfang out on turn 2 to start going ham sooner
• Nested Shambler back in
  ++ BB to double your squirrel count still seems good
• Force of Vigor
  ++ Creature spot removal is shored up by Chatterfang and all other removal spells hit creatures, so might be reasonable to have this not
  ++ Probably better in-slot than Binding the Old Gods

Potential cuts:

• Craterhoof Behemoth
  == If Invasion of Ikoria  ^Flip goes in
  ++ Cutting makes Natural Order worse, but also no longer as groan-inducing
• Finale of Devastation
  == If Invasion of Ikoria  ^Flip goes in
• Witch's Oven
  ++ Cheap sac outlet that works with Academy Manufactor and Gilded Goose -- Slow and food otherwise sucks.
  -- The bonus only really happens if Chitterspitter has gone up several times
  ++ Is fetchable with Urza's Saga, but it's the worst option of the current three. Always fetch Skullclamp over this.
• Tireless Tracker
  -- Second-worst token maker behind Witch's Oven
  -- Only eight fetchlands + Binding the Old Gods and Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip to double-trigger
  ++ Does qualify as a (slow) draw engine
  ++ Works with Academy Manufactor
• Binding the Old Gods
  -- Worst ramp and worst removal
  ++ Removal count is still moderately low, though. Can't rely on Chatterfang's ability for everything.
  -- Probably worse in slot than Force of Vigor
• Saw in Half
  ++ Does function as bad protection against spot removal -- Not a lot of nonlegendary creatures worth copying that don't already win the game, so often dead
  Eternal Witness
  Tireless Provisioner
  Tireless Tracker
  Species Specialist
  Grim Hireling
  Academy Manufactor
  Tendershoot Dryad
  Nadier's Nightblade
  Deep Forest Hermit
  -- Even when there is a target, often win-more

DreadKhan on Meren Reanimation

2 months ago

I have a lot of fun using Meren in an EDH deck, maybe some of my EHD concepts translate?

I really liked stuff like Diligent Farmhand, Dawntreader Elk, and of course Sakura-Tribe Elder are very useful. There is also Elves of Deep Shadow, which is useful if you use the 'trick' of running lots of green ramp that finds Swamps/makes black mana and run less black sources because you only need a few. A few black ramp creatures are Blood Pet and Blood Vassal, Vassal is probably worse. A card I used to use in Meren that might work here is Street Wraith, it'll eat up a bit of life, but it gives Meren something worth getting back if she has low/no XP, I settled on running enough ramp-that-dies to not worry about Meren having nothing to do. Death payoffs like Grim Haruspex to draw some cards when things die might help too.

One really funny trick that's very easy for Meren to pull off (and that's way better in 1v1) is abusing Spore Frog, this also builds up XP fwiw. I think Dawnstrider is a lot worse in 1v1 than Spore Frog, but it is also a discard outlet so I run both in EDH.

If you want another 'backup Meren', there is also Hell's Caretaker, this is a bit cheaper than Meren and can actually reanimate big stuff on it's 2nd turn (usually much sooner than Meren), but it does eat a body each time.

Another trick I liked using was Gravecrawler + any sac outlet, as long as you've got another Zombie you can just reuse your Gravecrawler, even if you don't want to splurge on something like Phyrexian Altar or Pitiless Plunderer to make it infinite, it can still be pretty good to have a recursive (and cheap) creature.

Crow-Umbra on Isshin Aristocrats

2 months ago

Very cool to see an Aristocrats focused Isshin deck! I don't think I've seen one with this focus yet, so kudos to you. I have a few suggestions that I've used in my Isshin deck, but I think could work even better with an Aristocrats focus:

• Scapegoat - Excellent board protection, & gives you a death trigger at a mana efficient rate.

• Deadly Dispute

• Fanatical Devotion

• Plumb the Forbidden - Absolute gas draw spell that gets even better with all of your effects that care about death triggers.

Stuff I've used in older Aristocrats/Reanimator:

• Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

• Bastion of Remembrance - If you wanted something slightly more resilient than a Zulaport Cutthroat

• Mayhem Devil - I love it since it also punishes opponents that are also running sacrifice effects.

• Pitiless Plunderer - Turn those deaths into gas

• Morbid Opportunist

• Dictate of Erebos

I haven't played Brazen Cannonade yet, but it's something I've had on my radar for my Isshin deck. I think it could fill both modes of Aggro and Aristocrats play you might be aiming for.

Anyways, you have a cool twist that I'm happy to see. I hope it works well for you.