Commander

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

Global commander stats

All Golgari commanders

639 Wins

1801 Losses

Archetype profile

How Rendmaw, Creaking Nest plays

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

146 decks from 142 players. Mostly Construct creatures.

How you deal with the table

Politics Top 4% +0.6

Group hug Top 5% +0.9

Stax and control Top 25% +1.1

Group slug Top 35% +0.1

How your creatures win

Big creatures Top 15% +0.7

Fight for the board Below average -0.5

Tokens Top 40% -2.9

Tribal Below average Construct, 5.5

Voltron Top 42% -0.5

+1/+1 counters Below average -2.8

Aristocrats Below average -3.3

Blink Top 25% +0.0

What your deck runs on

Spellslinger Below average -4.7

Graveyard and reanimator Below average -1.1

Landfall Below average -0.3

Artifacts Top 5% +14.4

Enchantress Top 2% +10.0

Mill Below average -0.2

Lifegain Below average -1.6

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 53 games.

Tokens created per game 9.1 Average 9.9, from 53 games.

Commander damage dealt per game 2.2 Average 4.1, from 616 games.

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

Overview

Summary

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 2,450 recorded Playgroup games, winning 26% of them (639–1801) at an Elo of 1,468, ranking #4138 globally.

Wins average 9 turns, with 172189 damage dealt and 0.56 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 1 Oct 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 2450 recorded Playgroup games (639 wins, 1801 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: 25 days.

How many decks use Rendmaw, Creaking Nest?

757 decks list Rendmaw, Creaking Nest as their commander on Playgroup, of which 539 have played at least one recorded game.

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest Magic: The Gathering commander card art

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Global rank

4138

Wins by turn (avg.)

Elo rating

1468

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Global Elo trend

Trend

Commander popularity trend

Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 172189

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 757

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 539

No. games played with this commander 2450

Total hours played 25 days

Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank	Elo	User	Games	Wins	Winrate
1	1584	Arak	17	8	47 %
2	1560	nviccione	14	6	43 %
3	1548	JAEBIN	4	2	50 %
4	1545	vikirosen	4	2	50 %
5	1542	Eddie	8	5	63 %

Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When Rendmaw, Creaking Nest wins, 68.1% of wins come via combat across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Combat

68.1%

Non Combat Damage

23.31%

Commander Damage

3.48%

Alternative

2.04%

Combo

1.43%

Poison

0.82%

Mill

0.82%

Avg win turn 8.8 based on 657 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.

+3.3 pp

Top card: Solemn Simulacrum

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
1	Solemn Simulacrum 218 games	+3.3 pp	218
2	Renata, Called to the Hunt 61 games	+1.9 pp	61
3	Temple of the False God Signature build 38 games · Signature build	+1.0 pp	38

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 33.1% of games from position 1 and 16.67% from position 6 across tracked games.

Seat 1

33.1% n=636

Seat 2

27.36% n=667

Seat 3

24.0% n=627

Seat 4

20.13% n=477

Seat 5

18.52% n=81

Seat 6

16.67% n=12

Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Rendmaw, Creaking Nest wins 28.97% after 0 mulligans and 0.0% after 5 mulligans.

0 mulligans

28.97% n=1134

1 mulligan

23.62% n=417

2 mulligans

22.52% n=151

3 mulligans

16.0% n=25

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 3.84/5 on average, across 1699 self-reports.

3.84 / 5

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Opponent salt

When Rendmaw, Creaking Nest wins, opponents flag the game as salty 67.6% of the time across 664 tracked wins.

67.6 \%

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.