Seems like reasonable uncommon pirate, especially if you have Fathom Fleet Captain, the pirate that makes pirate tokens with menace. The army of pirates could get quite nasty then.
To be fair to him, he won't die to the first 2/X with first strike (presumably nonblue) you drop, or trade with the first nonblue 2/X you drop. So, yeah, he's obviously worse than Piledriver (to say nothing of goblins versus pirates), but not a complete slouch.
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
So Pirates are going to be like the Warrior tribal from Khans?
Not... precisely. Warrior Tribal was WB/Abzan and was more traditional. This feels a lot more like WR Humans in Avacyn Restored. Not only do you want a lot of Pirates, you want to attack with all of them. Also, Grixis gives you a very different feel than Orzhov / Abzan.
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Creature - Orc Pirate (U)
Whenever ~ attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each other attacking Pirate.
2/2
Well, probably meh and of course nowhere near as good as Goblin Piledriver was.
I'd also imagine that there will be a lot of tribal pirate support in Ixalan.
Goblins have poor impulse control. Don't click this link!!
some of my favourite flavour text:
Wayward Soul
"no home no heart no hope"
—Stronghold graffito
Raging Goblin
He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
They are down right jovial.
Seems like reasonable uncommon pirate, especially if you have Fathom Fleet Captain, the pirate that makes pirate tokens with menace. The army of pirates could get quite nasty then.
I hope so, I NEED to build a pirate-themed commander.
Modern: UB Zombie hunt UB - WR Boros tokens WR - BGW Treefolk tribal BGW
Commander: UR Mizzix, a Storm of spells UR (Decklist)
Thanks for spiderboy4 of High~Light_Studios for the kick ass avatar.
Thanks for DarkNightCavalier of HotPS for the exceptional signature.
On phasing:
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs
Modern: UB Zombie hunt UB - WR Boros tokens WR - BGW Treefolk tribal BGW
Commander: UR Mizzix, a Storm of spells UR (Decklist)
This is a fairly nice change from the more traditional 'sac for effect' Rakdos strategies...
The good(?) Captain looks like it's right at home... too bad Nahiri's Machinations rotates.
Not... precisely. Warrior Tribal was WB/Abzan and was more traditional. This feels a lot more like WR Humans in Avacyn Restored. Not only do you want a lot of Pirates, you want to attack with all of them. Also, Grixis gives you a very different feel than Orzhov / Abzan.