Commander

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

Global commander stats

All Golgari commanders

695 Wins

1937 Losses

Archetype profile

How Rendmaw, Creaking Nest plays

Top 2% for enchantress, top 4% for politics, and top 5% for group hug.

193 decks from 184 players. Mostly Construct creatures.

How you deal with the table

Politics Top 4% +0.7

Group hug Top 5% +0.8

Stax and control Top 23% +1.2

Group slug Top 34% +0.1

How your creatures win

Big creatures Top 14% +0.8

Fight Below average -0.5

Tokens Top 38% -2.8

Tribal Below average Construct, 5.6

Voltron Top 40% -0.4

+1/+1 counters Below average -2.8

Aristocrats Below average -3.1

Blink Top 25% +0.0

What your deck runs on

Spellslinger Below average -4.5

Graveyard and reanimator Below average -1.1

Landfall Below average -0.3

Artifacts Top 5% +14.0

Enchantress Top 2% +10.1

Mill Below average -0.3

Lifegain Below average -1.5

Bars show where this commander sits among every profiled commander, the tick is the middle. The number is extra cards of that archetype per deck against the average deck in the same colors; tribal shows the main creature type and its count per deck.

Measured in tracked games

Spells cast per opponent's turn 0.04 Average 0.07, from 95 games.

Tokens created per game 9.2 Average 11.7, from 95 games.

Commander damage dealt per game 2.1 Average 4.0, from 655 games.

Commanders that play like Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

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The Sentry, Golden Guardian Blink top 2% and Group hug top 3%

Aphelia, Viper Whisperer Tribal top 12% and Group hug top 15%

Belbe, Corrupted Observer Group slug top 1% and Group hug top 4%

Horobi, Death's Wail Enchantress top 17% and Group hug top 18%

Measured weekly from full decklists and tracked games. How we measure

Overview

Summary

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 2,649 recorded Playgroup games, winning 26% of them (695–1937) at an Elo of 1,519, ranking #1736 globally.

Wins average 9 turns, with 161453 damage dealt and 0.56 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 12 Nov 2026

Sources Scryfall · EDHREC · JSON API

Frequently Asked

What is Rendmaw, Creaking Nest's win rate?

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest has a 26% win rate across 2649 recorded Playgroup games (695 wins, 1937 losses).

How long do winning games with Rendmaw, Creaking Nest take?

Wins with Rendmaw, Creaking Nest take on average 9 turns. Total tracked play time: 27 days.

How many decks use Rendmaw, Creaking Nest?

834 decks list Rendmaw, Creaking Nest as their commander on Playgroup, of which 585 have played at least one recorded game.

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest Magic: The Gathering commander card art

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Global rank

1736

Wins by turn (avg.)

Elo rating

1519

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Global Elo trend

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Commander popularity trend

Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 161453

Average commander damage per game 5

Average poison counters given per game 5

Average kills per game 0.56

Average turn length 2 minutes

No. decks for this commander 834

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 585

No. games played with this commander 2649

Total hours played 27 days

Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank	Elo	User	Games	Wins	Winrate
1	1610	Arak	18	9	50 %
2	1553	Pipokloon	10	5	50 %
3	1548	JAEBIN	4	2	50 %
4	1545	vikirosen	4	2	50 %
5	1544	Michél	3	2	67 %

Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When Rendmaw, Creaking Nest wins, 67.62% of wins come via combat across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Combat

67.62%

Non Combat Damage

23.62%

Commander Damage

3.24%

Alternative

2.48%

Combo

1.52%

Poison

0.76%

Mill

0.76%

Avg win turn 8.7 based on 710 wins with recorded turn counts

Measured

Staples that win games for Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

Cards that raise this deck's measured win rate the most, compared with Rendmaw, Creaking Nest decks that leave them out.

+7.3 pp

Top card: Temple of the False God

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
1	Temple of the False God 49 games	+7.3 pp	49
2	Solemn Simulacrum 279 games	+6.6 pp	279
3	Burnished Hart 148 games	+2.1 pp	148
4	Patchwork Banner Signature build 42 games · Signature build	+0.8 pp	42
5	Valgavoth's Lair 354 games	+0.0 pp	354

Measured win-rate lift against decks on the same commander without the card, ranked by the 95% lower bound. How this is measured

Table position

Does seating order matter?

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest wins 33.21% of games from position 1 and 15.38% from position 6 across tracked games.

Seat 1

33.21% n=688

Seat 2

27.23% n=718

Seat 3

24.19% n=676

Seat 4

20.47% n=508

Seat 5

18.97% n=87

Seat 6

15.38% n=13

Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Rendmaw, Creaking Nest wins 29.0% after 0 mulligans and 0.0% after 5 mulligans.

0 mulligans

29.0% n=1174

1 mulligan

23.85% n=455

2 mulligans

21.88% n=160

3 mulligans

14.81% n=27

4 mulligans

50.0% n=2

5 mulligans

0.0% n=3

Player reports

How do players rate games with this commander?

Pilot rating

Pilots rate their own games with Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 3.83/5 on average, across 1810 self-reports.

3.83 / 5

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Opponent salt

When Rendmaw, Creaking Nest wins, opponents flag the game as salty 34.7% of the time across 721 tracked wins.

34.7 \%

Head to head

Best and worst matchups

Opposing commanders with at least ten tracked games against Rendmaw, Creaking Nest. Pairs with fewer than 25 games are shown in italics; treat those as suggestive, not statistical.