Throne of the Grim Captain // The Grim Captain
Legendary Artifact // Legendary Creature — Skeleton Spirit Pirate
: Mill two cards.
Craft with a Dinosaur, a Merfolk, a Pirate, and a Vampire 
(, Exile this artifact, Exile the four from among permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.29
- EDHREC rank
- #14949
Throne of the Grim Captain // The Grim Captain flips into a 7/4 flying, menace, haste pirate that reanimates four creature types from your graveyard — all for free once you meet its condition. The cost is real: you need a Pirate, Merfolk, Vampire, and Zombie in your graveyard, which is a genuine deck-building constraint, not a minor footnote.
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 Throne of the Grim Captain // The Grim Captain earns its slot, specifically in graveyard-focused tribal decks that naturally mix the four required creature types — think Sefris of the Hidden Ways reanimator shells or any pirate commander that dips into zombie or vampire support. In Standard, Pioneer, and Modern it's a build-around with a narrow payoff: aggressive creature-type synergy decks can meet the condition but rarely need a five-card graveyard setup when faster threats exist. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the graveyard condition and the payoff are both too slow for those formats. Oathbreaker can exploit it in the right self-mill shell, but the four-type requirement limits it there too.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.29 bulk tier
At $0.29, Throne of the Grim Captain // The Grim Captain is firmly bulk — a low-risk pickup for any graveyard tribal deck that can meet its condition. Bulk rares with narrow build-around requirements rarely climb unless a Commander precon or new tribal commander pushes demand, so treat it as a cheap enabler, not a spec.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.