New Untitled Deck by user8423171

Format: Commander

Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck operates as a high-synergy Group Slug and Punisher engine commanded by Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls. The strategy focuses on deploying cheap, recurring damage permanents like Roiling Vortex, Razorkin Needlehead, and Underworld Dreams during the first two turns. Once Valgavoth enters the battlefield on Turn 3 or 4, every opponent taking damage on their turn triggers Valgavoth to draw a card and gain a +1/+1 counter. This provides a steady stream of up to three extra cards per turn cycle while rapidly growing a lethal flying commander. The deck leverages this massive card velocity to draw into asymmetric tax pieces such as Manabarbs, Spellshock, and Painful Quandary, as well as damage amplifiers like Solphim, Mayhem Dominus. Interaction is backed by efficient redirection spells including Deflecting Swat and Bolt Bend. The game concludes around Turn 7 through overwhelming commander damage, cumulative burn, or a large Torment of Hailfire.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Cemetery Gatekeeper
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chandra, Awakened Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copper Tablet
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eidolon of the Great Revel
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Spellshock
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Crater
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Withering Torment