Endless Punishment - Upgrade by Fredrikie

Format: Commander

Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos group-slug deck helmed by Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls, built to punish opponents for every game action: drawing cards (Spiteful Visions, Fate Unraveler, Razorkin Needlehead), tapping lands (Manabarbs, Burning Earth), casting spells (The Lord of Pain, Kaervek the Merciless, Rug of Smothering), and gaining life (Sulfuric Vortex, Rain of Gore). Valgavoth converts every opponent life-loss event into a +1/+1 counter and a card, growing into a flying, ward-protected beater while refueling the hand. The deck wins through accumulated drain, commander damage, and burst finishers: Chandra's Ignition on a grown Valgavoth, Master of Cruelties setting a life total to 1, and Hidetsugu Consumes All transforming into the one-shot Vessel of the All-Consuming. A dense removal and board-wipe suite keeps the table honest while the slug pieces grind.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 All Will Be One
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Barbflare Gremlin
• 1 Basilisk Collar
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blazemire Verge
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Blood Seeker
• 1 Bloodfell Caves
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Brash Taunter
• 1 Burning Earth
• 1 Canyon Slough
• 1 Chandra's Ignition
• 1 Chandra, Awakened Inferno
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Decree of Pain
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Emberwilde Captain
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fate Unraveler
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Forsaken Wastes
• 1 Geothermal Bog
• 1 Gleeful Arsonist
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Harsh Mentor
• 1 Hex
• 1 Hidetsugu Consumes All // Vessel of the All-Consuming
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Kaervek the Merciless
• 1 Kederekt Parasite
• 1 Leechridden Swamp
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Manabarbs
• 1 Massacre Girl
• 1 Massacre Wurm
• 1 Master of Cruelties
• 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
• 1 Molten Collapse
• 1 Mount Doom
• 6 Mountain
• 1 Nightshade Harvester
• 1 Nowhere to Run
• 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
• 1 Persistent Constrictor
• 1 Rain of Gore
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
• 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
• 1 Razorkin Needlehead
• 1 Roiling Vortex
• 1 Rug of Smothering
• 1 Sadistic Shell Game
• 1 Shadowblood Ridge
• 1 Shivan Gorge
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit
• 1 Spinerock Knoll
• 1 Spiteful Visions
• 1 Sulfuric Vortex
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Séance Board
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Tectonic Giant
• 1 Temple of Malice
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Lord of Pain
• 1 Theater of Horrors
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Untimely Malfunction
• 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
• 1 Wicked Pact
• 1 Witch's Clinic
• 1 Withering Torment