Deamons by SpagNoodle

Format: Commander

Commander: Valgavoth, Terror Eater

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black control, big-mana, and heavy attrition strategy commanded by Valgavoth, Terror Eater. The game plan focuses on establishing early mana acceleration using artifacts and explosive black mana multipliers like Crypt Ghast, K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth, and Cabal Stronghold. While building resources, the deck systematically disrupts opposing development through edict effects, hand destruction, and efficient board wipes such as Toxic Deluge and Massacre Wurm. On Turn 6, the deck deploys Valgavoth, Terror Eater, presenting a 9/9 flying, lifelinking monster protected by a punishing Ward cost of three sacrificed nonland permanents. Valgavoth exiles every card opponents lose and allows the pilot to cast them using life as mana. The deck closes games around Turn 8 through overwhelming combat dominance, opponent spell theft, and massive life-drain finishers like Exsanguinate and Gray Merchant of Asphodel.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Ancient Cellarspawn
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Caged Sun
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Deserted Temple
  • 1 Dread Presence
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Font of Agonies
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Geode Golem
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Hidden Necropolis
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magus of the Coffers
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindslicer
  • 1 Mindwrack Harpy
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mutilate
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nirkana Revenant
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sol Talisman
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 17 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vicious Rumors
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God