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Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

Legendary Creature — Human Pirate · {2}{U}{B}{R} · Black/Red/Blue commander

When Admiral Brass enters, mill four cards. At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may return target Pirate creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. It has base power and toughness 4/4. It gains haste until end of turn. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

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What Admiral Brass, Unsinkable actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · etbWhen Admiral Brass enters, mill four cards.
• Triggered ability · beginning_of_combatAt the beginning of combat on your turn, you may return target Pirate creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. It has base power and toughness 4/4. It gains

What an Admiral Brass, Unsinkable deck needs

Plays as pirate typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• pirate creatures (its text counts them)

The Admiral Brass, Unsinkable deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Combos with Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Admiral Brass, Unsinkable is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Admiral Brass, Unsinkable + Oriq Loremage + Timestream Navigator131 decks
• Admiral Brass, Unsinkable + Cellar Door + Timestream Navigator36 decks

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