Ramirez DePietro, Pillager
Legendary Creature — Human Pirate
When Ramirez DePietro enters, you lose 2 life and create two Treasure tokens.
Whenever one or more Pirates you control deal combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #4871
Ramirez DePietro, Pillager hits the board and immediately starts converting combat damage into free spells off the top of opponents' libraries — that's a repeatable value engine stapled to a 3/3 for four mana. The cost is real: you need to connect with opponents, so removal and blockers shut it down, and engines like Deadeye Navigator exist to blink it back if it dies. Admiral Brass, Unsinkable decks run it at over 80% inclusion because it does exactly what Pirate tribal wants: attack, generate advantage, repeat.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Admiral Brass, Unsinkable
Admiral Brass, Unsinkable turns every Pirate attack into a reanimation trigger, and Ramirez DePietro, Pillager stacks on top of that by also casting spells off opponents' libraries when those Pirates connect — the two engines compound into an overwhelming advantage loop.
Don Andres, the Renegade
Don Andres, the Renegade rewards you for playing spells you don't own, which means every free cast Ramirez DePietro, Pillager generates off an opponent's library is also triggering Don Andres's draw and tax effects.
Edward Kenway
Edward Kenway cares about attacking with multiple Pirates and generating treasures, and Ramirez DePietro, Pillager slots in as a reliable attacker that layers card advantage on top of the treasure economy Edward Kenway is already building.
Admiral Beckett Brass
Admiral Beckett Brass wants three Pirates swinging at the same opponent each turn to steal permanents, and Ramirez DePietro, Pillager fills that attacker slot while independently generating value through its damage trigger — no wasted bodies.
Francisco, Fowl Marauder // Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
Francisco, Fowl Marauder // Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator leans on wide Pirate attacks to accumulate treasures, and Ramirez DePietro, Pillager rewards those same attacks with cast-from-exile value, giving the deck a second axis of advantage beyond mana generation.
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 Ramirez DePietro, Pillager lives — Pirate tribal is a Commander-native archetype, three opponents means three libraries to raid, and the political dimension of choosing whose card you cast adds real texture to the gameplay. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal but Ramirez DePietro, Pillager is nowhere near the power threshold those formats demand; a four-mana 3/3 that requires combat damage to generate value doesn't compete with what those formats are doing on turns one and two. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home if you're building around a Pirate-adjacent strategy, though the 20-life starting total means fewer turns to connect. Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are off the table.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Ramirez DePietro, PillagerDeadeye NavigatorNadier's Nightblade
Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifeloss; Infinite LTB
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Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Ramirez DePietro, Pillager is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking twice. Given its 80%-plus inclusion rate in Admiral Brass, Unsinkable decks and near-identical numbers in Don Andres, the Renegade lists, the price reflects supply rather than demand, and it's unlikely to spike absent a reprint ban on the reprints themselves.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Deadeye Navigator
- Admiral Brass, Unsinkable
- Don Andres, the Renegade
- Edward Kenway
- Admiral Beckett Brass
- Francisco, Fowl Marauder // Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
- Nadier's Nightblade
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.