Endless Punishment (Duskmourn Commander) by cvest100

Format: Commander

Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos group-slug and attrition strategy commanded by Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls. The game plan establishes low-cost passive damage triggers early—such as Kederekt Parasite, Fate Unraveler, and Mogis, God of Slaughter—to guarantee opponents lose life during each of their turns. This fuels Valgavoth's triggered ability, drawing up to three extra cards per turn cycle while steadily enlarging Valgavoth into a lethal flying threat. The deck converts opponent game actions (drawing, casting spells, tapping lands) into constant life drain, using the resulting card surplus to deploy high-impact finishers like Massacre Wurm, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, and Kaervek the Merciless. While the deck possesses immense card draw velocity and inevitable damage output, it relies heavily on creature permanents and lacks instant-speed stack interaction, making it vulnerable to well-timed board sweepers and combo-centric opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Barbflare Gremlin
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Pact
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Enchanter's Bane
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fear of Burning Alive
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Grab the Prize
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Light Up the Stage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mask of Griselbrand
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Nightshade Harvester
  • 1 Persistent Constrictor
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Sadistic Shell Game
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Star Athlete
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Suspended Sentence
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Séance Board
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tectonic Giant
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 Theater of Horrors
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 Witch's Clinic