Disrupt & Crow'em [Primer]

Commander / EDH* Artifact BG (Golgari) Casual Flying Group Slug Multiplayer Primer Tokens

Crow_Umbra

Creature (34)

• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Haywire Mite
• 1x Signal Pest
• 1x Chronomancer
• 1x Copper Myr
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Cyberman Patrol
• 1x Leaden Myr
• 1x Marionette Apprentice
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Psychomancer
• 1x Soulless Jailer
• 1x Adaptive Automaton
• 1x Circuit Mender
• 1x Dalek Squadron
• 1x Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
• 1x Junk Diver
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Starscream, Power Hungry  ^Flip
• 1x Arasta of the Endless Web
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Canoptek Scarab Swarm
• 1x Poison-Tip Archer
• 1x Roaming Throne
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Necron Deathmark
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Triarch Stalker
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine
• 1x Demolisher Spawn

Land (36)

• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkmoss Bridge
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 9x Forest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Treasure Vault
• 1x Tree of Tales
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Valgavoth's Lair
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x War Room
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Lignify
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Raking Canopy
• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Revenge of Ravens

Commander (1)

Instant (11)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Bitter Triumph
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Reap
• 1x Tear Asunder
• 1x Arachnogenesis
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker

Artifact (6)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Idol of Oblivion
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Talisman of Resilience
• 1x Bow of Nylea

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Their Name is Death

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Maybeboard

Creature (14)

• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Nyxborn Hydra
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Gloomshrieker
• 1x Illuminor Szeras
• 1x Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
• 1x Morbid Opportunist
• 1x Canoptek Tomb Sentinel
• 1x Grim Hireling
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Species Specialist
• 1x Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
• 1x Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Court of Garenbrig
• 1x Hissing Miasma
• 1x Court of Ambition
• 1x Court of Locthwain
• 1x Marchesa's Decree
• 1x No Mercy

Artifact (2)

• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Crown of Gondor

Instant (1)

• 1x Kozilek's Command

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Three Visits

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Have you ever wanted to give your playgroup the bird? Now you can give them multiple Goaded birds. Are your opponents thirsty? Give them some milk and help them fight like a crow. No one should be surprised I'm making a deck with crows in it. Cast multi-typed cards & smack face with crows. Simple as.

Rendmaw is an excellent option for those playgroups that tend to end up in stalemates; no one wanting to make enemies by attacking first, or would rather leave it up to the chance of a dice roll. The other (potentially) fun thing about Rendmaw as a quasi-Goad strategy, is that it reduces some of the "feels bad" elements that typical Goad strategies inherently have in regards to removing some player agency of who they can attack. Rendmaw's crows will be flying around and pecking out people's eyes, but players can still attack with the rest of their board. Play testing and game reps will help dial in the ratio of Multi-Type Crow Production™ to other helpful and synergistic elements. Regardless, Rendmaw should be at home at more casual tables that may not want to do a full on Goad or forced combat strat.

For this iteration of Rendmaw, I am aiming to keep the game plan fairly simple:

• Play a concentrated amount of primarily Artifact Creatures to trigger Rendmaw as often as possible, while still maintaining some artifact creature based synergies.

• Utilize a variety of effects across our Artifact Creatures to disrupt where possible, or anthem up our own board for alpha strikes and parity breaking.

• Let those birds fly and eventually anthem up our own, or make more than everyone else with the right support.

The deck currently runs no alt win cons or combos; it's just a murder of crows all the way down. I recently bought this pre-con, so this is currently a concept brew while I brew Winter, Cynical Opportunist and decide which route I like more (and will have to buy/proxy fewer cards for).

I wish Rendmaw was Jund so I could Disrupt Decorum while I- .

If you get a chance, check out Noire_Samhain's cool take on Rendmaw, Bodach-Rocais

Draw

This section may receive a bit more TLC as I continue to test which multi-type cards are most superfluous.

• Castle Locthwain

• War Room - My meta doesn't see much land removal other than Generous Gift/Beast Within.

• Chronomancer - As of 9/24/24, the deck currently has 39 artifacts. The concentration is certainly there, but Chronomancer is a target for potential replacement.

• Idol of Oblivion - Rendmaw makes Crow tokens among others.

• Night's Whisper

• Black Market Connections

• Circuit Mender - More of a cantrip effect on a body. Sad Bug Bot?

• Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor - Give your opponents the option to reward themselves for hitting each other, if they so choose. They may pay the life to do it. What could go wrong for anyone's dwindling life totals, thanks to all those crows?

• Starscream, Power Hungry   - An interesting draw option that introduces Monarch into a gameplan that has everyone flinging crows at each other. Nothing can go wrong here.

• Beast Whisperer - As of 9/24/24, the deck is running 35 creatures in the 99, so this should be gas.

• Deathreap Ritual

• Guardian Project - Ditto as Beast Whisperer

• Ohran Frostfang - Make your crows even more deadly and draw cards from them pecking faces.

• Return of the Wildspeaker

Ramp

This section likely will need one or two more effects for consistency. TBD dependent on additional play testing.

• Sol Ring - Cherish your Sol Rings while you can /s

• Arcane Signet

• Copper Myr

• Leaden Myr

• Nature's Lore

• Ornithopter of Paradise

• Talisman of Resilience

• Black Market Connections - Ideally played on T3 to help produce a bit of extra mana each turn. More so mid game mana acceleration than ramp out of the gate.

• Culling Ritual - In a game that will hopefully be full of Goad Crows, this will lead to some explosive mid-late game turns.

• Solemn Simulacrum - Don't be sad, you help make Crows.

• Seedborn Muse - Helps to keep a lively board that can block and have mana up for a bit of instant speed interaction/removal.

Removal & Interaction

This is the third time I've written this, but this is most likely for sure the section that gets some more TLC after more play testing and reps. I might remove some of the slower options for more instant speed removal.

Removal

• Haywire Mite

• Assassin's Trophy

• Bitter Triumph

• Golgari Charm

• Infernal Grasp

• Lignify

• Tear Asunder

• Beast Within

• Necron Deathmark

• Their Name is Death

Interaction (and Protection)

This is a smorgasbord of effects that disrupt opponents' resources and ability to use them to their fullest extent.

• Bojuka Bog

• Scavenger Grounds

• Hex Parasite - My gut tells me that this will likely be an early cut casualty. TBD.

• Golgari Charm - The -1/-1 mode can certainly kill wider boards that haven't anthemed up yet, but can also dull an incoming attack.

• Marionette Apprentice - As mentioned prior, the deck runs about 39 artifacts as of 9/24/24

• Psychomancer - Ditto as Marionette Apprentice

• Soulless Jailer - Graveyard and exile play hate. This can be a very meta dependent swap out if needed.

• Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor - Card draw can be tempting.

• Raking Canopy - Deters non-Goad Crow flyers, and can be helpful if a game makes it to 1v1 against an opponent's crows.

• Starscream, Power Hungry   - Tempt your opponents with the Monarch, and further incentivize them to smack each other.

• Canoptek Scarab Swarm - More graveyard hate, and helps to create a mass of flyers to help break parity, or build up defenses as needed.

• Revenge of Ravens - Partly a flavor include, but also helpful to deter attacks.

• Triarch Stalker - Further sweeten the deal for attacking someone else that is totally The Arch Enemy™, and not you actually.

Anthems & Token Support

After all is said and done, we have to have the biggest corvids at the table. Rendmaw has to smack faces hard enough to close games.

Anthems

• Signal Pest

• Crashing Drawbridge - Maybe supplemented with, or replaced by Concordant Crossroad, which also has an additional typing for Rendmaw to care about.

• Cyberman Patrol - Once more, the deck as of 9/24/24 is running 29 artifact creatures

• Metallic Mimic - The majority of the time, this Mimic will be a Bird.

• Adaptive Automaton - This Automaton will also be a Bird most of the time.

• Bow of Nylea - Give our attacking creatures death touch, has multiple typings, and has additional utility uses. Slap it in this deck.

• Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter - Helps give our artifacts an element of surprise, and can balloon into an evasive beater.

• Ohran Frostfang - Give the board death touch and draw some cards.

• Triach Stalker - Help focus damage on that one opponent who is totally, actually, believe it or not, the forreals threat at the table.

• Demolisher Spawn - By the time the deck can play this on curve, it should have at least one Artifact Creature in the graveyard, as well a couple of noncreature spells. Seems doable without a dedicated self-mill/discard package.

• Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut - All of your crows are large Juggernauts. Absolutely jacked and brolic.

Token Support

• Treasure Vault - Multiple card typings? Also can make a bunch of Treasures if needed.

• Bitterblossom - Multiple card typings?? Helps break parity by helping to stay ahead of the curve on flyers, compared to the rest of the table (hopefully).

• Arachnogenesis - Blank a combat and make some reach-y spiders.

• Dalek Squadron - An army in a can that will hopefully be evasive enough to punch through defenses.

• Arasta of the Endless Web - Multiple card ty- Another source of reach-y spiders, and also has reach herself.

• Canoptek Scarab Swarm - Hose a graveyard, and create a swam of flying insect tokens to break parity.

• Parallel Lives - An already great card that gets better in this deck because of the phrase "If an effect would put one or more tokes onto the battlefield under your control. While everyone else gets one crow, you get two.

• Wurmcoil Engine - Dude dies and makes a couple of keyword wurms. Could maybe swap with a different wurm, perhaps a Massacre Wurm.

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 1 month ago
Date added	2 months
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 B, Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Eldrazi 10/10 C, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Insect 1/1 C w/ Flying, Servo 1/1 C, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Spider 1/2 G, The Monarch, Treasure, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink