VALGAVOTH ACTUAL by Phareux56

Format: Commander

Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck executes an aggressive Rakdos group slug strategy led by Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls. The game plan establishes cheap, continuous damage triggers such as Roiling Vortex, Razorkin Needlehead, and Zo-Zu the Punisher to ensure opponents lose life during each of their turns. Valgavoth converts every opponent-turn life loss into a +1/+1 counter and an extra card, drawing up to three cards per rotation while swelling into a massive flying threat. The midgame builds on this advantage with severe damage taxes like Manabarbs, Spellshock, and Painful Quandary, amplified by damage doublers like Solphim, Mayhem Dominus. Opponents are forced into a lose-lose dynamic where casting spells and tapping lands accelerates their own demise. Evasive commander damage and late-game burn bursts from Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Massacre Wurm reliably eliminate the table around Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ankh of Mishra
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Pact
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Burning Earth
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Chandra, Awakened Inferno
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Tempest
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eidolon of the Great Revel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hearthborn Battler
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magebane Lizard
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nightshade Harvester
  • 1 Nuclear Fallout
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Persistent Constrictor
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Rug of Smothering
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spellshock
  • 1 Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Sulfuric Vortex
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Unlicensed Disintegration
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vengeful Ancestor
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher