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Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

Legendary Creature — Human Pirate

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.)

CMC
5
Mana cost
{2}{U}{B}{R}
Color identity
BRU
Rarity
mythic
Set
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
Price
$0.31
EDHREC rank
#7096
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Admiral Brass, Unsinkable card art
Admiral Brass, Unsinkable reanimates any Pirate that dies back onto the battlefield as a 4/4 with a Treasure attached — every death becomes a recursive threat that also funds your next play. The cost is a six-mana legend that does nothing the turn it enters, so it folds to removal before the engine fires; pair it with protection or haste enablers, and the setup problem largely disappears. Oriq Loremage, which mills three and lets you pull a creature into the graveyard, is an ideal setup piece, though Admiral Beckett Brass decks simply run both legends together and let the tribal synergies do the rest.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Admiral Beckett Brass

Admiral Beckett Brass

53.5% of decks · synergy 0.51

Admiral Beckett Brass is the flagship Pirate commander, and Admiral Brass, Unsinkable slots directly into the recursive backbone it wants — stolen creatures and combat-aggressive Pirates all feed the reanimation loop, while the Treasure token from each returned Pirate keeps the aggressive gameplan funded.

02
Edward Kenway

Edward Kenway

53.0% of decks · synergy 0.50

Edward Kenway's token-generating and treasure-payoff gameplan lines up exactly with what Admiral Brass, Unsinkable produces; every Pirate that dies comes back as a Treasure-bearing 4/4, which means Kenway's combat math and resource engine both get a free upgrade whenever the board gets wiped.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Admiral Brass, Unsinkable is a Commander card through and through — the recursive Pirate engine it enables only reaches critical mass in a 100-card singleton environment where tribal density is high and games go long enough to pay six mana. It's technically legal in Legacy and Vintage, but a six-mana do-nothing-on-entry legendary creature has no competitive application in either format. Oathbreaker is the one other 60-card-adjacent format where it's legal, and while a Pirate-tribal Oathbreaker shell is theoretically possible, the format's faster pace punishes the same setup fragility that makes protection so important in Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.31 bulk tier

At $0.31, Admiral Brass, Unsinkable sits firmly in bulk territory despite seeing play in over 17,000 decks on EDHREC. Bulk rares with genuine tribal payoffs tend to creep up when a new Pirate-heavy set drops, but at current price it's an easy automatic include in any Pirate Commander build — the cost of entry is essentially zero.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.