The Birds by Castievanialord

Format: Commander

Commander: Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Golgari deck uses Rendmaw, Creaking Nest to create goaded 2/2 Birds whenever you play a card with two or more types. It fills the deck with enchantment creatures and artifact creatures to trigger Rendmaw consistently while building a grindy aristocrats engine. Life-gain and death triggers from Obelisk Spider, Dina, Soul Steeper, Poison-Tip Archer and Moldervine Reclamation drain opponents slowly. Rendmaw is a deterrent and goad source, not a combo piece; the deck wins through incremental drain, delirium payoffs, and combat with goaded Birds rather than an infinite combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anrakyr the Traveller
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
  • 1 Basilica Stalker
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Blight Grenade
  • 1 Blood Researcher
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Casualties of War
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Convert to Slime
  • 1 Daemogoth Woe-Eater
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Death's-Head Buzzard
  • 1 Deathbloom Ritualist
  • 1 Demolisher Spawn
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Dormant Grove // Gnarled Grovestrider
  • 1 Drag to the Roots
  • 1 Dread Tiller
  • 1 Elderfang Venom
  • 1 Essenceknit Scholar
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fear of Lost Teeth
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Gloomshrieker
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gorging Vulture
  • 1 Grapple with Death
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Jarad's Orders
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Nath of the Gilt-Leaf
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Obelisk Spider
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Osseous Sticktwister
  • 1 Pillage the Bog
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest
  • 1 Rites of Reaping
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Swarm Guildmage
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Swarmweaver
  • 1 Treasured Find
  • 1 Urgent Necropsy
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vraska Joins Up
  • 1 Witherbloom Command
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Wreckage Wickerfolk
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will