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Brazen Buccaneers

Creature — Human Pirate

Haste
When this creature enters, it explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
Ixalan
Price
$0.13
EDHREC rank
#23395
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Brazen Buccaneers card art
Brazen Buccaneers enters the battlefield, gives itself haste, and impulse-draws you a land — reasonable on its own, but the ceiling is much higher when you're building toward Doomsday or other library-manipulation lines. Four mana for a 2/2 is a real cost, so you're running this because the explore trigger matters, not because you need a body.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Brazen Buccaneers is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it barely registers outside Commander and Pauper. In Commander, the explore trigger on a haste body has niche appeal in pirate tribal and landfall shells. In Pauper, the combination of haste and card selection at common is worth noting, though four mana is a steep ask in a format that moves fast. Everywhere else — Modern, Legacy, Vintage — the rate is simply too poor to compete.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.13 bulk tier

At $0.13, Brazen Buccaneers is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. That price won't move; this is a slot-filler you grab out of a common box, not something you track.

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