scary crows by user6028695

Format: Commander

Commander: Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari forced-combat attrition strategy commanded by Rendmaw, Creaking Nest. The game plan leverages a dense suite of cards with two or more card types—predominantly artifact creatures, enchantment creatures, and artifact lands—to trigger Rendmaw repeatedly. Each trigger creates 2/2 black Bird tokens with flying for all players that remain permanently goaded. Because opponents must attack players other than you, their life totals quickly dwindle through mandatory aerial combat. Meanwhile, your own board accumulates flying blockers and attackers that feed death triggers and sacrifice outlets. You break parity with asymmetric payoffs such as Coat of Arms, which turns every Bird into a massive threat for mutual annihilation, Massacre Wurm to sweep opposing tokens while burning their owners, and Culling Ritual to clear low-cost permanents while generating a massive mana burst. The deck smoothly transitions from early mana acceleration to an inescapable mid-game combat squeeze.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adaptive Automaton
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baba Lysaga, Night Witch
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Binding the Old Gods
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Cloudstone Curio
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Copper Myr
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darkmoss Bridge
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deathreap Ritual
  • 1 Demolisher Spawn
  • 1 Dig Up
  • 1 Dockside Chef
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Eviscerator's Insight
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Gideon the Oathless
  • 1 Glissa, the Traitor
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hedron Crawler
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Jiang Yanggu, Never Alone
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Manakin
  • 1 March of the World Ooze
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mausoleum Secrets
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Phyrexian Walker
  • 1 Power Depot
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Reap
  • 1 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Signal Pest
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Valgavoth's Lair
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Wall of Junk
  • 1 Wing Storm
  • 1 Woodland Chasm