By stealing your opponent's commanders, not only do you deny your opponent access to its sweet abilities like the other options do, but you get to use those abilities
You get premium illustrated design quality at a fraction of custom design costs
The deck starts by casting aggressive, efficiently-costed pirate creatures with strong secondary abilities including anthem effects (Admiral Beckett Brass, Corsair Captain, Dire Fleet Neckbreaker), treasure tokens (Breeches, Captain Lannery Storm, Cutthroat Negotiator), control magic (Coercive Recruiter, Hostage Taker), creature tokens (Fathom Fleet Captain), card draw (Ruin Raider), and many more
But my experience in the last few years has been that you should probably be packing a few such win conditions somewhere in your list, even if you dont plan to aggressively tutor them up every game
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