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Your brash and (for lack of a better term) expendable crew of pirates wants to get into scuffles with your opponent, while constantly sailing from location to location to gain various benefits

Torgal, A Fine Hound on two curves into Town Crier plus Rydia, or a splashed Ignis Scientia, or Vanille or just selling out for Reach the Horizon to untap with six mana on turn four

Triggered abilities use the word "when," "whenever," or "at." They're often written as "[Trigger condition], [effect]." Some keywords (such as prowess) are triggered abilities and will use "when," "whenever," or "at" in their reminder text

The Amethyst/Steel deck is a little lacking without upgrades

Despite that, Sapphire and Steel feels like a kinder deck than Emerald and Ruby

In fact, Id say youre more likely to lose from a lack of ramp than an excess try and over-index on big threats or at least play enough draw spells to find the ones you have so you can slam the door shut decisively once theyre online