Endless Punishment by FartinSpartin

Format: Commander

Creator: FartinSpartin

Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos group slug strategy commanded by Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls. The game plan revolves around deploying low-cost, symmetrical or asymmetric life-loss permanents to ensure opponents lose life during their own turns. This repeatedly triggers Valgavoth's ability to draw cards and accumulate +1/+1 counters, transforming the commander into both a massive card-advantage engine and an evasive airborne clock. Supported by mid-game punishers such as Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, The Lord of Pain, and Polluted Bonds, the deck steadily compresses opposing life totals while building card advantage. However, the list deliberately foregoes two-card infinite combos and fast mana tutors, meaning it relies on sustained board presence to win through cumulative burn and combat damage. Because it requires 3 full opponent response cycles to close the game, its chief vulnerability is sustained removal and sweepers targeting Valgavoth and key punisher creatures.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Grievous Wound
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Light Up the Stage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Hex
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Preacher of the Schism
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Screaming Nemesis
  • 1 Scytheclaw Raptor
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunspine Lynx
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 The Rollercrusher Ride
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Tokka & Rahzar, Terrible Twos
  • 1 Tramway Station
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Valgavoth's Lair
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Withering Torment