Commander

Edward Kenway

Global commander stats

All Grixis commanders

869 Wins

2535 Losses

Archetype profile

How Edward Kenway plays

Top 3% for mill, top 6% for artifacts, and top 8% for tokens.

251 decks from 237 players. Mostly Pirate creatures.

How you deal with the table

Politics Below average -1.1

Group hug Below average -0.7

Stax and control Below average -0.6

Group slug Below average -2.0

How your creatures win

Big creatures Top 39% -3.2

Fight Below average -0.3

Tokens Top 8% +5.9

Tribal Top 10% Pirate, 20.3

Voltron Top 49% -0.8

+1/+1 counters Below average -2.2

Aristocrats Below average -0.8

Blink Top 18% +0.1

What your deck runs on

Spellslinger Below average -9.9

Graveyard and reanimator Top 35% +0.3

Landfall Top 25% +0.3

Artifacts Top 6% +12.9

Enchantress Below average -0.6

Mill Top 3% +0.8

Lifegain Below average -0.1

Bars show where this commander sits among every profiled commander, the tick is the middle. The number is extra cards of that archetype per deck against the average deck in the same colors; tribal shows the main creature type and its count per deck.

Measured in tracked games

Spells cast per opponent's turn 0.05 Average 0.07, from 175 games.

Tokens created per game 7.9 Average 11.7, from 175 games.

Commander damage dealt per game 2.2 Average 4.0, from 683 games.

Commanders that play like Edward Kenway

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Admiral Beckett Brass Tribal top 2% and Mill top 10%

Imotekh the Stormlord Artifacts top 1% and Graveyard and reanimator top 4%

Noctis, Heir Apparent Blink top 3% and Voltron top 3%

Admiral Brass, Unsinkable Tribal top 1% and Mill top 6%

Measured weekly from full decklists and tracked games. How we measure

Overview

Summary

Edward Kenway is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 3,432 recorded Playgroup games, winning 25% of them (869–2535) at an Elo of 1,507, ranking #1984 globally.

Wins average 9 turns, with 87000 damage dealt and 0.5 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 12 Nov 2026

Sources Scryfall · EDHREC · JSON API

Frequently Asked

What is Edward Kenway's win rate?

Edward Kenway has a 25% win rate across 3432 recorded Playgroup games (869 wins, 2535 losses).

How long do winning games with Edward Kenway take?

Wins with Edward Kenway take on average 9 turns. Total tracked play time: about 2 months.

How many decks use Edward Kenway?

1,069 decks list Edward Kenway as their commander on Playgroup, of which 631 have played at least one recorded game.

Edward Kenway Magic: The Gathering commander card art

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Global rank

1984

Wins by turn (avg.)

Elo rating

1507

Trend

Global Elo trend

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Commander popularity trend

Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 87000

Average commander damage per game 6

Average poison counters given per game 2

Average kills per game 0.5

Average turn length 3 minutes

No. decks for this commander 1069

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 631

No. games played with this commander 3432

Total hours played about 2 months

Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank	Elo	User	Games	Wins	Winrate
1	1608	EdgarEdgelord	6	5	83 %
2	1590	Cornerlongshot	15	7	50 %
3	1580	Frank_Fontaene	8	4	50 %
4	1576	Gabriele Bolamperti	4	4	100 %
5	1572	GishDeezNutz	2	2	100 %

Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When Edward Kenway wins, 58.48% of wins come via combat across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Combat

58.48%

Non Combat Damage

15.48%

Alternative

15.18%

Combo

6.7%

Commander Damage

4.02%

Mill

0.15%

Avg win turn 8.8 based on 890 wins with recorded turn counts

Measured

Staples that win games for Edward Kenway

Cards that raise this deck's measured win rate the most, compared with Edward Kenway decks that leave them out.

+6.2 pp

Top card: Withering Torment

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
1	Withering Torment 43 games	+6.2 pp	43
2	Fearless Swashbuckler 426 games	+5.8 pp	426
3	Uthros, Titanic Godcore 78 games	+3.3 pp	78
4	Mu Yanling, Wind Rider Signature build 213 games · Signature build	+3.2 pp	213
5	Roaming Throne 305 games	+2.9 pp	305
6	Hoard Hauler 230 games	+1.8 pp	230
7	Staunch Crewmate 203 games	+1.5 pp	203
8	Haunted Ridge 201 games	+1.2 pp	201
9	Reaver Titan 210 games	+0.9 pp	210
10	Training Center 304 games	+0.8 pp	304

Show 5 more (ranks 11-15)

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
11	Time Sieve 421 games	+0.7 pp	421
12	Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer 334 games	+0.7 pp	334
13	Exotic Orchard 610 games	+0.7 pp	610
14	Basim Ibn Ishaq 480 games	+0.6 pp	480
15	Luxury Suite 290 games	+0.5 pp	290

Measured win-rate lift against decks on the same commander without the card, ranked by the 95% lower bound. How this is measured

Table position

Does seating order matter?

Edward Kenway wins 33.35% of games from position 1 and 0.0% from position 6 across tracked games.

Seat 1

33.35% n=1096

Seat 2

26.8% n=1026

Seat 3

21.31% n=826

Seat 4

14.75% n=478

Seat 5

6.25% n=48

Seat 6

0.0% n=4

Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Edward Kenway wins 27.71% after 0 mulligans and 0.0% after 6 mulligans.

0 mulligans

27.71% n=1608

1 mulligan

26.9% n=567

2 mulligans

28.36% n=201

3 mulligans

16.18% n=68

4 mulligans

18.18% n=22

5 mulligans

25.0% n=4

6 mulligans

0.0% n=1

Player reports

How do players rate games with this commander?

Pilot rating

Pilots rate their own games with Edward Kenway 3.71/5 on average, across 2315 self-reports.

3.71 / 5

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Opponent salt

When Edward Kenway wins, opponents flag the game as salty 35.6% of the time across 891 tracked wins.

35.6 \%

Head to head

Best and worst matchups

Opposing commanders with at least ten tracked games against Edward Kenway. Pairs with fewer than 25 games are shown in italics; treat those as suggestive, not statistical.