Pirates of the Caribbean — The Curse

Commanded by Captain Jack Sparrow, this Grixis (blue/black/red) 100-Card Commander Deck is about Aztec gold that spends normally and costs everything. The deck hands you an excellent Treasure economy, then counts every coin you spend.

• The Curse: when a cursed creature dies, it returns to the battlefield tapped, once each turn. It can't be healed: damage can't be prevented and you gain no life from it. Every Treasure you sacrifice gives you a curse counter, and at ten or more each permanent you control becomes a 1/1 Skeleton with no abilities. Twelve cards print it and Jack gives it to every other creature you control. The ramp and the punishment are the same action, and a normal game reaches ten around turn six.
• Parley: when the creature attacks, the defender may hand over the parley price before blockers — a card from their hand, two Treasures, an artifact, a nonland permanent. Pay, and the attack is called off; refuse, and it deals double damage. Either answer feeds you: Elizabeth Swann and Captain Teague read refusals, Lord Cutler Beckett reads payments.
• Ten is not only a cliff: Hector Barbossa gives Skeletons +2/+0, menace and indestructible once you pass ten, and Moonlight over Isla de Muerta lets them come back as often as they die. Will Turner, Syrena and Return the Gold to the Chest walk the count back down, if you choose to.

Why Grixis

Blue is navigation and paperwork: unreadable charts, a compass that answers what you really asked, the East India Company's ledgers. Black is the bargain and the bone: a heart in a box, a crew that can no longer stop. Red is Tortuga, the powder magazine and the mutiny. Twenty-seven cards mention Treasure, and nineteen read curse counters.

A complete 100-card Commander deck plus 4 tokens, tuned for Bracket 4, available as a digital print-yourself edition or a printed physical deck, and offered in 10 languages.