Endless Punishment by EPB5090

Format: Commander

Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck executes a Rakdos Group Slug strategy built around Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls. The primary game plan deploys low-cost symmetrical bleed pieces, such as Razorkin Needlehead, Sulfuric Vortex, and Descent into Avernus, that guarantee life loss during each opponent's turn. This repeatedly triggers Valgavoth, quickly transforming the commander into a massive flying threat while drawing up to three extra cards per turn cycle. Mana acceleration from Signets and Talismans ensures Valgavoth enters play on Turn 3 or 4. Punisher pieces like Manabarbs and Spellshock tax opponents for taking basic game actions, rapidly shrinking life totals. Noncombat damage enhancers, including Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power and Price of Progress, turn incremental life loss into lethal table-wide burn by Turn 7. While the deck boasts immense card draw and inevitable damage, it lacks defensive stack interaction and remains vulnerable to board sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Blood for the Blood God!
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Charred Foyer // Warped Space
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Light Up the Stage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Hex
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 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 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Persistent Constrictor
  • 1 Price of Progress
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Ramunap Ruins
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Screaming Nemesis
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellshock
  • 1 Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfuric Vortex
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tectonic Giant
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Theater of Horrors
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 Witch's Clinic