The Year of Brew

Week 9: Swiggity Swooty, We're Comin' For the Booty

Julian Leal

07 Mar 2021 - 5 min read

Welcome back to week nine of the Year of Brew! After last week in the pure and virtuous realm of Selesnya, we’re flipping the script into the seedy underbelly of Grixis. But only in wretched hives of scum and villainy can you find this treasure of deck. Let’s shoot first and strike it rich!

Deck 9: Grixis

Despite all my references, this is not a Star Wars themed deck and despite the commander ( Admiral Becket Brass , btw), this isn’t a pirate tribal list. Oh no no, we wouldn’t go for something so cliched. This is a deck all. ABOUT. TREASURE.

But Julian, isn’t that basically a pirate tribal deck? No it’s not! Though we have many pirates in the deck, it’s only because they produce treasures. We want to make as many treasures as possible and then use those treasures to steal the win with cards like Hellkite Tyrant , Revel in Riches , or Mechanized Production . Notorious B.I.G. once said, “Mo’ money, mo’ problems,” but for us, maximimizing our wealth maximizing our chances of winning.

Now, god forbid our plan to plunder the booty goes awry, we do happen to have a lot of powerful pirates (and … less powerful pirates) in our deck. So this can function as a poor-man’s tribal deck and get scrappy with some scallywags. But ideally, we’ll be diving into a swimming pool of gold dubloons like Scooge McDuck, the original privateer.

Gold buys death. Death earns gold.