Creeping Nightmare by Dendrex

Format: Commander

Commander: Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker and Street Urchin

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos artifact-sacrifice value deck helmed by the partner pair of Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker and Street Urchin. The primary game plan is to generate a steady stream of artifacts and creatures, sacrifice them for value through the commander's abilities, and drain the table incrementally via blood artist effects and damage triggers. The deck wins through attrition rather than a single explosive combo, using recursion engines like Scrap Trawler and Trading Post to grind out incremental advantage. The commander pair provides both a sacrifice outlet (Street Urchin's ping ability) and a repeatable card-advantage engine (Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker's mill-and-return effect), making the deck highly synergistic but deliberately paced.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Anrakyr the Traveller
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Case of the Stashed Skeleton
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Chronomancer
  • 1 Chupacabra Echo
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Disciple of the Vault
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Drossforge Bridge
  • 1 Enterprising Scallywag
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feldon of the Third Path
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Homicide Investigator
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Ingenious Artillerist
  • 1 Ingot Chewer
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Loyal Apprentice
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mephitic Draught
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Molten Collapse
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Mycosynth Wellspring
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nihil Spellbomb
  • 1 Noble's Purse
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Prized Statue
  • 1 Quicksmith Genius
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Enervation
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Starving Revenant
  • 1 Stinging Cave Crawler
  • 1 Street Urchin
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Terror Tide
  • 1 Trading Post
  • 1 Volatile Fault
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Xorn
  • 1 Zoyowa Lava-Tongue
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat