Is Breeches, Eager Pillager good in Commander?

Breeches, Eager Pillager in Commander

Breeches, Eager Pillager hits the board as a self-sufficient threat that generates card advantage every time it connects — exile the top card, play it that turn, repeat. The cost is that it needs to deal combat damage to players, which means removal or a well-timed blocker shuts it down before the engine gets rolling, and Edward Kenway shells that want the exile-and-cast loop can't run both legends as commander simultaneously.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Edward Kenway

69.4% of decks · synergy 0.64

Edward Kenway and Breeches, Eager Pillager share the same exile-and-cast DNA, making Breeches an auto-include in any Edward Kenway deck that wants redundancy on the attack-trigger draw engine — more hits per combat means more free spells.

02

Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

69.3% of decks · synergy 0.64

Admiral Brass, Unsinkable reanimates Pirates that die in combat, and Breeches, Eager Pillager is a Pirate that wants to attack repeatedly, so the loop of swing, trade, reanimate, swing again turns every attack step into incremental card advantage.

03

Admiral Beckett Brass

68.9% of decks · synergy 0.63

Admiral Beckett Brass rewards going wide with Pirates to steal permanents, and Breeches, Eager Pillager feeds that plan by adding a card-advantage engine to the board without spending extra resources — every swing either exiles a free spell or trades for a stolen permanent.

04

Breeches, Brazen Plunderer // Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator

64.1% of decks · synergy 0.62

Breeches, Brazen Plunderer // Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator runs a top-of-deck exile package as a core mechanic, and Breeches, Eager Pillager slots directly into that shell as another redundant piece that keeps the chain of free casts going.

05

Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

52.3% of decks · synergy 0.50

Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer already conditions opponents to respect damage-dealing Pirates, and Breeches, Eager Pillager gives that deck a second must-answer threat doing the same job — opponents who tap out to kill one often walk into the other connecting.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	legal
pioneer	legal
standard	legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Commander is where Breeches, Eager Pillager does its real work — the Pirate tribal density in the format is high enough that the deck slots fit naturally, and three opponents means three targets to connect against before anyone can stabilize. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, a three-mana 2/2 that needs to connect to generate value is too slow and fragile against efficient interaction; the card sees essentially no play there. Standard is legal but the same problem applies — aggressive red shells want creatures that immediately affect the board or scale faster. Breeches, Eager Pillager is, bluntly, a Commander card: multiplayer tables, Pirate synergies, and a combat step where evasion or anthem effects clear the lane.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Breeches, Eager Pillager isn't available in the current dataset, so check Scryfall or a major retailer for a live number. Given its ~69% inclusion rate across Edward Kenway and Admiral Brass, Unsinkable decks, it's in high demand within the Pirate tribal niche — expect to pay a small premium over casual bulk if it hasn't been reprinted recently.