Valgavoth thanks for playing by Sirsquatchy

Format: Commander

Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Group Slug and Punisher Midrange strategy commanded by Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls. The primary game plan focuses on establishing low-cost passive damage sources—such as Roiling Vortex, Razorkin Needlehead, and Underworld Dreams—that guarantee life loss on each opponent's turn. Once Valgavoth enters the battlefield, this life loss triggers its ability to add +1/+1 counters and draw an additional card during every opponent's turn, providing massive card advantage of +3 net cards per turn cycle. With an abundance of resources in hand, the deck transitions into the mid-to-late game by deploying damage doublers and severe punisher cards like Twinflame Tyrant, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, and Painful Quandary. Opponents are forced into a brutal dilemma: taking game actions accelerates their demise through passive burn, while an increasingly massive flying Elder Demon threatens lethal combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Pact
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Grab the Prize
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nightshade Harvester
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Overlord of the Boilerbilges
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Rush of Dread
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Staff of the Death Magus
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Suspended Sentence
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Séance Board
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tectonic Giant
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valakut Exploration
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Villainous Wrath
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Witch's Clinic