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8 Phantom Warriors in a deck, 4 of whom are Pirates? Sure, why not?

The best pirate printed to date. Actually a fairly good blue creature.

lol I want this for my Ninja Deck.

This is irony. It would work in a ninja deck really well... who said they can't be friends?

i would play this over phantom warrior any day... its a freakin pirate. They should seriously bring this tribal back

Whoa, we actually can have a Pirates Vs Ninjas duel deck.

See ghost ship, errata'd to be a pirate zombie, best creature type ever!

Dude, they have super soakers that are muskets. Super. Soaker. Muskets.

These are indisputably the coolest people to have ever existed.

The man in the middle has larger breasts than the woman on the left.

Kudos to Enemy_tricolor for pointing out the super soaker muskets. These guys are totally the A-team of unblockable pirates from the portal expansion.

I'm not saying that I want the game flooded with them or anything, but one or two cards featuring a gun in each set (maybe even fewer) would be pretty cool. It especially makes sense for humans (angry farmer, anyone?) to be using them considering all the big baddies out there.

Those are some serious man-cans on the male pirate.

By far the best pirate ever. Unblockable? Yes.

And then Invisible Stalker came along and not only stole his thunder but also p***ed off everyone who had to deal with stupid hexproof. Oh well, he's still a pirate at least.

Regarding Invisible Stalker, I think that Hexproof, like Indestructible, bring too much non-interactive play in the game, that can be quite unfunny... I hope that R&D knows what they're doing...

This card, I don't own it, but I perfectly recall when I opened a Phantom Warrior in a Weatherlight pack, and I was like "What the f**k!", in a positive way, and then I thought a little something like "But this wouldn't be too much non-interactive?". The irony... However, this is one of my favourite blue creature of all times! I won a 9th Edition Draft, at the pre-release, enchanting the Phantom Warrior with Spirit Link, along with Serra Angel and Icy Manipulator. It was one of my most successful pre-release, and I won 9 9th edition pack, one for each language Magic was translated into. It was glorious!

And about the Pirate tribe, I wonder why R&D didn't bring it back during Zendikar block. I think it would fit quite well! I hope to see them come back, soon...!

For me, this is a easy 5/5

Of all sets, the printed text of a card from Portal now so happens to use the exact Oracle wording.