Admiral Brass, Unsinkable card art — Art by Jason Rainville · © Wizards of the Coast

Ahoy Mateys

Bracket 2

LCC — The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander · 2023-11-17

Commander: Admiral Brass, Unsinkable · Color identity: BRU

Bracket

Power Level

4.4/10

Tipping Point

Game Changers

Why this bracket?

Extra turn effect detected: 1 card (= Bracket 2 floor)
Engine accuracy: 77.1% exact and 99.5% within one bracket on 1,229 organizer-labeled tournament decklists (engine v389).

How it compares

Against the 4 The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander decks we analyzed, this is 3rd strongest — power 4.4 versus a set average of 4.8. That is about average for the library (4.6 across 174 precons). Its Tipping Point lands on turn 3, 1 turn earlier than the library median of turn 4.

More The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander decks

Explorers of the Deep — Bracket 3, power 5.8
Blood Rites — Bracket 2, power 4.5
Veloci-Ramp-Tor — Bracket 2, power 4.3

Other Bracket 2 precons at a similar power

Blame Game — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Calling All Angels — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Chaos Incarnate — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Draconic Destruction — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Draconic Rage — Bracket 2, power 4.4

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Admiral Brass, Unsinkable's color identity, none over $20, and none of them a Game Changer, so none forces a Bracket 3 floor on its own. Adding cards can still move the bracket: paste the updated list back into the calculator to re-check.

Counterspell Interaction $4.28
Swan Song Interaction $10.69
Negate Interaction $0.24
Night's Whisper Card advantage $6.25
Read the Bones Card advantage $0.30
Sign in Blood Card advantage $3.14

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable
1 Don Andres, the Renegade
1 The Indomitable
1 Storm Fleet Negotiator
1 Francisco, Fowl Marauder
1 The Grim Captain's Locker
1 Skeleton Crew
1 Broadside Bombardiers
1 Gemcutter Buccaneer
1 Arm-Mounted Anchor
1 Amphin Mutineer
1 Bident of Thassa
1 Corsair Captain
1 Evacuation
1 Timestream Navigator
1 Warkite Marauder
1 Black Market Connections
1 Blood Money
1 Dire Fleet Ravager
1 Fathom Fleet Captain
1 Lethal Scheme
1 Angrath's Marauders
1 Blasphemous Act
1 Captain Lannery Storm
1 Captivating Crew
1 Chaos Warp
1 Coercive Recruiter
1 Dire Fleet Daredevil
1 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
1 Port Razer
1 Shared Animosity
1 Admiral Beckett Brass
1 Hostage Taker
1 King Narfi's Betrayal
1 Prismari Command
1 Zara, Renegade Recruiter
1 Icon of Ancestry
1 Vanquisher's Banner
1 Choked Estuary
1 Desolate Lighthouse
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Foreboding Ruins
1 Frostboil Snarl
1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
1 Nephalia Drownyard
1 Smoldering Marsh
1 Sulfur Falls
1 Sunken Hollow
1 Azure Fleet Admiral
1 Enterprising Scallywag
1 Daring Saboteur
1 Departed Deckhand
1 Distant Melody
1 Ghost of Ramirez DePietro
1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
1 Merchant Raiders
1 Siren Stormtamer
1 Spectral Sailor
1 Windfall
1 Feed the Swarm
1 Pitiless Plunderer
1 Breeches, Brazen Plunderer
1 Faithless Looting
1 Rakdos Charm
1 Ramirez DePietro, Pillager
1 Arcane Signet
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Dimir Signet
1 Herald's Horn
1 Izzet Signet
1 Rakdos Signet
1 Sol Ring
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Command Tower
1 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Port of Karfell
1 Rogue's Passage
1 Secluded Courtyard
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Thriving Bluff
1 Thriving Isle
1 Thriving Moor
1 Unclaimed Territory
3 Island
3 Island
2 Swamp
2 Swamp
3 Mountain
2 Mountain

Bracket assignment per WotC Commander Brackets Beta. Decklist sourced from MTGJSON (https://mtgjson.com/api/v5/decks/AhoyMateys_LCC.json). Analyzed against https://scrollvault.net on 2026-10-09.