Rendmaw, Creaking Nest by EnlightenJay

Format: Commander

Commander: Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari forced-combat and aristocrats engine commanded by Rendmaw, Creaking Nest. The strategy accelerates into Rendmaw on Turn 4 using efficient 1-2 CMC ramp spells. Once in play, every card with two or more card types—including artifact creatures, enchantment creatures, and artifact lands—creates tapped, goaded 2/2 black Bird tokens for all players. Opponents are forced to attack each other with these flying tokens each turn cycle, rapidly depleting their life totals while keeping the pilot safe from aerial aggression. The deck capitalizes on this token flood with aristocrat payoffs like Blood Seeker and Mirkwood Bats, board wipes that turn into lethal burn like Massacre Wurm, and overrun effects like Overwhelming Stampede. Extensive graveyard recursion via Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Six provides resilience against board wipes and removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Anrakyr the Traveller
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbound Crusher
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Assault Drone
  • 1 Automated Warfare System
  • 1 Baba Lysaga, Night Witch
  • 1 Barbed Servitor
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Biotransference
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Compost
  • 1 Darkmoss Bridge
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathreap Ritual
  • 1 Dockside Chef
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fang of Shigeki
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Glissa, the Traitor
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Grismold, the Dreadsower
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hive Mind Coprocessor
  • 1 Into the Pit
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Memnite
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nylea, Keen-Eyed
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Power Depot
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reap
  • 1 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest
  • 1 Scene of the Crime
  • 1 Shimmer Myr
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tom, Bert, and William
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Valgavoth's Lair
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery