Learn yours and your opponents and you should be fine starting out
cards to play powerful Characters every turn, and rely on your Leader and cards in your hand for defense
Well, the face commander, Admiral Brass, Unsinkable, clearly points to a Reanimator subtheme, but there's very few ways to actually get pirates into the graveyard and only a couple other cards that also deal with the graveyard like Skeleton Crew
Tawnos's Coffin ($118) You might note a few similarities between Tawnos's Coffin and Oubliette, and youd be right
Set sail with the unsinkable Admiral Brass and leave no Pirate behind
Even if cards commonly associated with this criterion were to become readily available and come down in price, its unlikely that wed unban themsince, once again, Vintage already exists