RedLegendary Creature — Goblin PirateBreeches, Brazen Plunderer
Mana value4Rank#4,289PartnerYes
The Commander
Menace
Whenever one or more Pirates you control deal damage to your opponents, exile the top card of each of those opponents' libraries. You may play those cards this turn, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Guide
Gameplan
Flood the board with Pirates and wide, evasive aggro, then connect with multiple creatures so each combat steals cards off opponents' libraries via Breeches. You impulse-cast those exiled cards (any color, thanks to Breeches' mana fixing) to snowball card and mana advantage while chipping life totals, closing with a big alpha strike or a go-wide haymaker. Partner lets you pair Breeches with a second commander to add a strategy or color.
Strengths
- Generates massive card advantage in mono-red, the format's most card-starved color
- Effectively grants you off-color spells, letting a red deck cast anything you exile
- Menace plus a wide Pirate board makes connecting and triggering Breeches reliable
- Partner flexibility (e.g. with Malcolm or Tormod) opens new colors and synergies
- Cheap, aggressive curve punishes slow durdle and ramp decks
Weaknesses
- Stealing cards costs nothing if you can't use exiled cards same turn—mana can bottleneck
- Dies to a single removal spell, stalling the whole impulse engine
- Board wipes and Fog effects neuter the go-wide combat plan
- Relies on dealing combat damage to opponents, so blockers and deathtouch slow you down
- Mono-red baseline lacks ramp and protection without partner support
Key Cards
- Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator — The premier Breeches partner—evasive Pirate that makes Treasure on combat damage, fueling the off-color casts you exile.
- Dockside Extortionist — A Pirate that floods you with Treasure to actually cast the cards Breeches exiles.
- Hellraiser Goblin — Forces all your Pirates to attack each turn, maximizing Breeches damage triggers and tempo.
- Coastal Piracy — Doubles your card advantage by drawing whenever Pirates connect alongside Breeches' exile.
- Reckless Fireweaver — Pings opponents off Treasure and artifact triggers, adding reach and incidental damage.
- Goldspan Dragon — Doubles Treasure value, turning your impulse-cast engine into explosive mana.
Upgrade Path
Lean into a partner—Malcolm for blue card flow and evasion, or Tormod for a graveyard angle—to escape mono-red's limits. Add fast mana (Sol Ring, Treasure makers, Jeska's Will) so you can actually cast the cards Breeches exiles, and prioritize unblockable/menace enablers plus cheap protection like Heroic Intervention and Deflecting Swat to keep the engine online. Tighten the curve toward a critical mass of Pirates and Treasure synergies, then add a combo finish (Krark/Sakashima loops or extra-combat effects) for higher power.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Wide Pirate alpha strike with Menace and anthem effects
- ▸Out-valuing the table by casting opponents' best spells against them
- ▸Treasure-fueled big-mana payoffs or X-spell finishers
- ▸Incidental damage from pingers like Reckless Fireweaver and Goblin Bombardment
Archetypes
- Pirate Tribal Aggro — Breeches rewards a wide, evasive Pirate board with stacked combat-damage triggers.
- Treasure/Impulse Value — Treasure tokens fund casting the off-color cards Breeches exiles each turn.
- Aggro-Combo — Card and mana snowball can power out a finishing combo or overwhelming alpha strike.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (R), by popularity.
