Dire Fleet Hoarder

Two power on one toughness is a body built to trade, and the death trigger is what keeps the trade from being a total loss. The card is not mana-positive: spend two, get one Treasure back, and you are down a mana on the deal. The point is not the arithmetic but the conversion. A 2/1 that expects to die is a different design problem than one that wants to live, and pairing that expendable body with a Treasure on death means the loss is never dead loss: the token can fix into a color the deck cannot otherwise make, be held until the turn a ritual actually matters, or feed an artifact-count or sacrifice engine that wants the token as input rather than the mana as output. That last use is where it stops being a Pirate beater and becomes plumbing: cheap fodder that leaves a little value on the way out, a creature whose most efficient line is often to attack into a blocker and cash the death for something the rest of the board wants. The Pirate type and the modest stats are incidental to the real function, which is a black two-drop that turns the act of dying into colorless flexibility and one point of deferred fixing.