Everything hurts by user9571069

Format: Commander

Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck is commanded by Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls and executes a relentless Group Slug and attrition strategy. The deck turns everyday game actions—drawing cards, tapping lands, casting spells, and activating abilities—into painful life loss for opponents through cards like Razorkin Needlehead, Zo-Zu the Punisher, Manabarbs, and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse. Whenever an opponent loses life on their turn, Valgavoth grows larger and draws a fresh card, generating up to three extra cards per turn cycle while presenting a fast-growing aerial clock. The deck accelerates through low-cost mana rocks into its commander by Turn 3 or 4, quickly snowballing card advantage to deploy damage doublers like Solphim, Mayhem Dominus or game-ending finishers like Archfiend of Despair and Gray Merchant of Asphodel. It also features the instant-win combo of Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond to close games out instantly when life totals dwindle.

Decklist (101 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Pact
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Enchanter's Bane
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Grab the Prize
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Lasting Tarfire
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Light Up the Stage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nightshade Harvester
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Persistent Constrictor
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Sadistic Shell Game
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Star Athlete
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Séance Board
  • 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 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher