Is Broadside Bombardiers good in Commander?

Broadside Bombardiers in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Broadside Bombardiers punches damage directly at opponents every time you crew it or put a Pirate into play — that's a repeatable, board-state-independent damage source stapled to a Vehicle that attacks. The cost is three mana for a creature that needs crewing, which means it asks for support, but in any Pirate shell led by Admiral Brass, Unsinkable it gets that support for free.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

67.5% of decks · synergy 0.65

Admiral Brass, Unsinkable reanimates Pirates from your graveyard as 4/4s, and every one of those triggered ETBs fires Broadside Bombardiers — opponents take chip damage on your end step before combat even starts.

02

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

20.7% of decks · synergy 0.20

Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator generates Treasure for each opponent hit by Pirates, and Broadside Bombardiers adds an extra damage vector each turn that keeps the Treasure engine ticking without needing to connect in combat.

03

Edward Kenway

18.1% of decks · synergy 0.16

Edward Kenway rewards you for piloting Vehicles and attacking, which lines up perfectly with Broadside Bombardiers as both a crewable threat and a damage trigger that fires the moment you suit up.

04

Admiral Beckett Brass

17.5% of decks · synergy 0.15

Admiral Beckett Brass wants as many Pirates attacking as possible to enable theft triggers, and Broadside Bombardiers contributes free damage pressure that forces opponents to block or trade rather than sit back.

05

Don Andres, the Renegade

16.9% of decks · synergy 0.14

Don Andres, the Renegade cares about tokens and creating value through combat, and Broadside Bombardiers slots in as a consistent source of targeted damage that softens blockers and pressures life totals ahead of your swings.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Broadside Bombardiers actually lives — the Pirate tribal density in the format means the crewing requirement is almost never a bottleneck, and the damage trigger scales meaningfully against three opponents. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes in environments where a three-mana Vehicle with no immediate board impact can't justify a slot. Oathbreaker is worth noting for Pirate-adjacent signatures, but the 60-card formats where Broadside Bombardiers is not legal are exactly the faster shells that would expose how slow it is without tribal scaffolding — Commander's singleton density and slower pace are genuinely what this card needs.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data for Broadside Bombardiers isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for a live figure. As a tribal-specific rare with a narrow home, it tends to hold value inside Pirate decks but doesn't command a premium outside them.