Without Bargain, Torch the Tower is passable as a Shock spell, but if the player has spare Bargain fodder from Celebration-oriented cards like Hopeful Vigil or various Roles, then Torch the Tower becomes a better Lightning Bolt, which is saying a lot and lets the card scale up a bit in the mid-game
Menace matters only as blockers are being declared
And then you can get anything from strong artifact creatures to powerful artifacts like Mind's Eye or whatever else flips up
We have new keywords and ideas, such as new keyword Resist, which allows you to reduce incoming damage - something that I can see being equally amazing and annoying, depending on which side of the board youre sitting
The theming actually works for once, and six sets deep we finally have enough pirate cards in the game to build an actual deck around that classification
But after this step is where the rabbit is flexible