birb by Graviton

Format: Commander

Commander: Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest commands a Golgari goad and aristocrats deck that weaponizes card types and forced combat. The strategy centers on deploying multi-type cards—such as artifact creatures, enchantment creatures, and artifact lands—to trigger Rendmaw's ability, distributing goaded 2/2 flying Birds to all players. These Birds force opponents to batter each other down during their own turns, draining opposing life totals while Crawlspace and defensive reach creatures keep you insulated from retaliation. As the board fills with Birds, the deck leverages aristocrat engines like Blood Artist, Mirkwood Bats, and Poison-Tip Archer, converting routine combat trades into asymmetric table-wide life drain. Card advantage engines such as Species Specialist, Morbid Opportunist, and Deathreap Ritual keep your hand full of fresh threats. The deck closes games decisively on Turns 6–7 by resolving mass-punishers like Massacre Wurm, Wing Storm, or Culling Ritual, detonating all generated tokens into a lethal wave of damage and drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrupt Decay
• 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Baba Lysaga, Night Witch
• 1 Belbe, Corrupted Observer
• 1 Biotransference
• 1 Black Market
• 1 Blitzwing, Cruel Tormentor // Blitzwing, Adaptive Assailant
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Blood Seeker
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Cauldron of Essence
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Copper Myr
• 1 Crawlspace
• 1 Culling Ritual
• 1 Darkmoss Bridge
• 1 Darksteel Citadel
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Deathreap Ritual
• 1 Demonic Covenant
• 1 Dockside Chef
• 1 Dryad Arbor
• 1 Endemic Plague
• 1 Enduring Vitality
• 1 Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1 Essence Warden
• 1 Eyeblight's Ending
• 1 Ezuri's Predation
• 8 Forest
• 1 Gloomshrieker
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Grismold, the Dreadsower
• 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
• 1 Haywire Mite
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Insidious Roots
• 1 Leaden Myr
• 1 Lignify
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Maddening Imp
• 1 Massacre Wurm
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Necron Deathmark
• 1 Noxious Gearhulk
• 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Osseous Sticktwister
• 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
• 1 Overlord of the Hauntwoods
• 1 Pact of the Serpent
• 1 Palladium Myr
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Poison-Tip Archer
• 1 Power Depot
• 1 Primal Vigor
• 1 Pygmy Kavu
• 1 Reap
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Scene of the Crime
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Species Specialist
• 1 Summon: Fenrir
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Wood
• 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
• 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Treasure Vault
• 1 Tree of Tales
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Twitching Doll
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Valgavoth's Lair
• 1 Vault of Whispers
• 1 Whip of Erebos
• 1 Wing Storm
• 1 Withering Torment
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth