Valgavoth Harrower of Souls 7,2/10 by user7751842

Format: Commander

Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck executes a Rakdos Group Slug strategy powered by Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls. The game plan revolves around deploying inexpensive, symmetrical or triggered damage sources early in the match, including Roiling Vortex, Razorkin Needlehead, and Underworld Dreams. When Valgavoth enters the battlefield on Turn 4, these incidental pings guarantee that opponents lose life on their own turns, transforming the commander into a rapid card-draw engine and growing flying beater. As the game transitions into Turn 5 and 6, heavy stax-lite punisher enchantments such as Manabarbs, Spellshock, and Painful Quandary constrict opposing resources, making ordinary game actions lethal. The deck concludes games either through high-power commander combat damage, devastating burst spells like Chandra's Ignition and Gray Merchant of Asphodel, or the infinite life-drain loop of Bloodthirsty Conqueror and Sanguine Bond.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cemetery Gatekeeper
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Grab the Prize
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mai, Scornful Striker
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nightshade Harvester
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellshock
  • 1 Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Sulfuric Vortex
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Trespasser's Curse
  • 1 Turbulent Crater
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher