The artifact decks were often the best at this, because they brought out their mana so fast that they could shrug off losing two lands while they crippled their opponent's development, and decks with green mana creatures like Birds of Paradise often used the same plan
Not only that, but it reads, At the beginning of your end step, gain control of target nonland permanent controlled by a player who was dealt combat damage by three or more Pirates this turn. It can be tricky to get that many hits in, but if youre playing with cards that make your creatures tricky to block, then you should be able to keep adding more things to your collection
To double the number of a kind of counters on a permanent, put a number of that kind of counters on it equal to the number it already has
One thing Ive learned in those three and half decades, paradoxically, is that the more time you experience, the less it weighs