Standard Compositions: Pirates
These different compositions are meant to display proven setups to strive for, for the very end game (top 4 and above). In general one of the seven slots will be the 'flex' spot, used to cycle new minions during the tavern rounds. Therefore, your actual board will rarely be as perfect as these listed here. Of course as many minions as possible should be tripled (the exception being minions with Divine Shield or Venomous) and buffed with Reborn, Venomous, Divine Shield or Taunt.
If you got a build that buffs multiple minions via Lightfang Enforcer, One-Amalgam Tour Group, or Tea Master Theotar, the ideal cards you should be looking for should have a special effect such as Cleave or Divine Shield. Alternatively look for unique effects like Impulsive Trickster or Wildfire Elemental. But in general, just buff any card. Don't roll for the ideal, it can cost you the game to desperately try to find them. You want to scale early, not later.
Also primary support units like Brann and Drakkari Enchanter will usually be tossed for the very last fights, but are sometimes displayed here when being integral to the setup. If one of your units is lacking, it is also often beneficial to replace it with a Leeroy the Reckless or a Interrogator Whitemane, before a deciding fight.
All available Pirates and Pirate-associated minions
The main mechanic of Pirates is spending or gaining Gold. Ripsnarl Captain and Gunpowder Courier are very good early game boosts, but kinda lock yourself into a full Pirate board. They also feature the cheapest Cleave minion in the form of Blade Collector.
Pirates are the original APM (meaning high-speed buying/cycling of cards) minion type.
Infinite gold aka APM Comp
You need to focus on buying cards that gives you Pirates such as Patient Scout, Boundless Potential, Hired Headhunter, Contracted Corpse, and Gritty Headhunter. This is going to start slow, especially when you don't have cards to give you the buffs to scale your minions. Do not focus on just buying Pirates, or else you will be wasting money on no stats.
Deathrattle Comp
The idea here is that we will scale by having as many attacks as we can. The biggest issue with this build is the awkward way to build this composition. We want to have Scallywag attack first, but Rapscallion Recruiter must also attack next. The moment Eliza or even Titus goes down, the whole build falls apart. Cards like Glowscale and even Phaerix can be great cards to help support this build. Prime Mate and Ghoul-acabra would really help out in this build.
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