Card

Admiral Brass, Unsinkable

Mana cost {2}{U}{B}{R}

Legendary Creature — Human Pirate 3/3

When Admiral Brass enters, mill four cards. At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may return target Pirate creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. It has base power and toughness 4/4. It gains haste until end of turn. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 2 known combos. 5 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Mythic · LCC · #1
Cheapest printing
€0.35
EDHREC salt
0.38
Color identity
Black, Red, Blue
Keywords
Mill

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

  • B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
  • B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

  • No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

2 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
    Finality counters don't stop permanents from going to zones other than the graveyard from the battlefield. For example, if a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into its owner's hand from the battlefield, it does so normally.
  • 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
    Finality counters work on any permanent, not only creatures. If a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead.
  • 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
    Finality counters aren't keyword counters, and a finality counter doesn't give any abilities to the permanent it's on. If that permanent loses its abilities and then would go to a graveyard, it will still be exiled instead.
  • 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
    Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.
  • 2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast
    Admiral Brass, Unsinkable's effect will overwrite any previous effects that set the returned creature's power and toughness to specific numbers. Effects that otherwise modify the returned creature's power and toughness will still apply no matter when they took effect. The same is true for +1/+1 counters.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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