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Pirated Copy

Creature — Shapeshifter Pirate

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Pirate in addition to its other types and it has "Whenever this creature or another creature with the same name deals combat damage to a player, you draw a card."

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
$9.22
EDHREC rank
#8013
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Pirated Copy card art
Pirated Copy enters as a copy of the best creature that attacked you this turn — an effect that scales with your opponents' own threats and costs nothing in tempo to set up. At three mana in blue, it out-values Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker on raw flexibility in most threat-dense pods, and in Admiral Brass, Unsinkable it becomes a Pirate that immediately joins the tribal engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

02
Admiral Beckett Brass

Admiral Beckett Brass

24.4% of decks · synergy 0.23

Admiral Beckett Brass wants every Pirate it can field, and Pirated Copy delivers one that arrives pre-sized to match the table's biggest threat — the copy is expendable since Admiral Beckett Brass doesn't care where the Pirate came from, only that it attacked.

03
Breeches, Brazen PlundererMalcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator

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

14.3% of decks · synergy 0.14

Pirated Copy gives Breeches, Brazen Plunderer // Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator a free attacker copied from whatever threat the table is already fielding, letting Malcolm generate treasure without spending resources on the creature itself.

04
Edward Kenway

Edward Kenway

14.7% of decks · synergy 0.13

Edward Kenway rewards playing from opponents' libraries and boards, and Pirated Copy fits naturally into that theft gameplan — a copied attacker at instant speed keeps mana open for the rest of Edward Kenway's interaction suite.

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

Pirated Copy is a Commander card in practice — the multiplayer context is what makes it good, because in a four-player pod there are always fresh high-value attackers to copy each turn cycle. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; three mana for a reactive creature copy is too slow and too opponent-dependent against tuned linear decks. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where it has a case, specifically in aggressive blue strategies that can reliably punish fast opposing creatures.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Phantasmal Image and Clone both copy any creature on the board for two and three mana respectively, and either will do the job in non-Pirate decks where the tribal typing is irrelevant. The trade-off is real though: neither enters at instant speed during combat the way Pirated Copy does, which means you lose the reactive quality that makes the card punishing in threat-dense pods.

Price Context

Current price

$9.22 mid tier

At $9.22, Pirated Copy sits in the mid tier — notable for a three-mana clone variant but justified by its unique flash-and-copy-the-attacker text, which no cheaper card replicates exactly. It's a staple in Pirate tribal lists and niche in broader blue theft decks, so the price is stable as long as those archetypes remain popular.

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