Haunted by Barinikku

Format: Commander

Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a quintessential Rakdos Group Slug strategy built around Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls. The primary goal is to turn the game into a burning room by deploying low-cost, symmetrical or asymmetric damage triggers such as Roiling Vortex, Razorkin Needlehead, and Fate Unraveler. These continuous sources ensure opponents lose life during their own turns, converting Valgavoth into a rapid card-draw engine and an escalating aerial threat. Rather than racing with fast mana or combo lines, the deck grinds down opposing life totals while refilling the pilot's hand. High-impact enchantments and creatures like Painful Quandary, Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin, and Torture Pit amplify the damage, forcing difficult decisions every time an opponent casts a spell, draws a card, or plays a land. The deck closes games through a blend of accumulated burn and lethal commander damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Basilisk Collar
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Blood Pact
• 1 Blood Seeker
• 1 Bloodfell Caves
• 1 Brash Taunter
• 1 Canyon Slough
• 1 Caustic Bronco
• 1 Champion's Helm
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Decree of Pain
• 1 Disrupt Decorum
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Falkenrath Noble
• 1 Fate Unraveler
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Firebrand Archer
• 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Geothermal Bog
• 1 Gleeful Arsonist
• 1 Glimpse the Impossible
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
• 1 Harsh Mentor
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant
• 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
• 1 Kederekt Parasite
• 1 Leechridden Swamp
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Magebane Lizard
• 1 Mask of Griselbrand
• 1 Massacre Wurm
• 1 Mayhem Devil
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mindcrank
• 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
• 8 Mountain
• 1 Nightshade Harvester
• 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
• 1 Painful Quandary
• 1 Persistent Constrictor
• 1 Polluted Bonds
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
• 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
• 1 Raphael, Fiendish Savior
• 1 Razorkin Needlehead
• 1 Roiling Vortex
• 1 Rug of Smothering
• 1 Sadistic Shell Game
• 1 Shadowblood Ridge
• 1 Shivan Gorge
• 1 Sign in Blood
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Spectacular Showdown
• 1 Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit
• 1 Spinerock Knoll
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Suspended Sentence
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Temple of Malice
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Theater of Horrors
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
• 1 Vengeful Ancestor
• 1 Witch's Clinic