Storm Fleet Swashbuckler
Creature — Human Pirate
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
This creature has double strike as long as you have the city's blessing.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Rivals of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #21666
Storm Fleet Swashbuckler enters as a 2/2 with Raid active — a 2/2 double striker for two mana is a legitimate threat that demands an answer. Without Raid, it's a vanilla 2/2, so the card is entirely dependent on your deck doing something before it on your turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Storm Fleet Swashbuckler is a Commander card almost exclusively — double strike on a two-drop is meaningful in combat-focused aggressive builds, especially under commanders that reward attacking every turn. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it competes with a much denser field of two-drops and the Raid condition is a real liability when you need to deploy it on turn two before combat has happened. Vintage is theoretically legal but Storm Fleet Swashbuckler has no business there. Commander is where the Raid clause costs you the least, since the game state is almost always developed by the time you're casting this.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Storm Fleet Swashbuckler is bulk and likely stays there — it's a narrow two-drop with a conditional upside in a format that has dozens of better aggressive two-drops. Grab a copy if you need it; there's no reason to stock up.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.