Valgavoth by bri_the_good_witch

Format: Commander

Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck is led by Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls and focuses on a punishing group slug strategy. The game plan revolves around deploying cheap, passive damage sources that force opponents to lose life during their own turns. Each time an opponent loses life on their turn, Valgavoth grows and draws a card, fueling an overwhelming card advantage engine. As the game transitions into the mid-game, the deck stacks symmetrical damage multipliers, anti-lifegain effects, and heavy burn creatures like The Lord of Pain, Kaervek the Merciless, and Massacre Wurm. Opponents find their life totals dwindled while Valgavoth flies over defenses to deliver lethal commander damage. The deck operates with excellent card flow and solid mana acceleration, though it lacks direct tutors and instant-speed stack protection, relying on sheer attrition and redundancy to close out the game around Turn 8.

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