Feel the Burn by MrTimDoucette

Format: Commander

Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos group slug engine commanded by Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls. The strategy turns symmetrical damage into asymmetric card advantage. By deploying low-cost punishment pieces like Roiling Vortex, Ankh of Mishra, Razorkin Needlehead, and Zo-Zu the Punisher, you ensure opponents lose life during their own turns. Each life-loss event triggers Valgavoth, growing the Demon into a lethal flying threat while drawing up to three extra cards per turn cycle. The deck suppresses opposing strategies by taxing mana with Manabarbs and Price of Glory, stopping life gain with Sulfuric Vortex, and punishing spellcasting with Spellshock. It closes games through scaling burn from Descent into Avernus, board-clearing swings with Chandra's Ignition, or an infinite damage loop between All Will Be One and Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin. Free spells like Deflecting Swat and Deadly Rollick protect your board while your opponents burn out.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 All Will Be One
• 1 Ancient Runes
• 1 Ankh of Mishra
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blazemire Verge
• 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Blood Pact
• 1 Blood Seeker
• 1 Bloodchief Ascension
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bolt Bend
• 1 Cemetery Gatekeeper
• 1 Chandra's Ignition
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Copper Tablet
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkness
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Descent into Avernus
• 1 Disrupt Decorum
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Forsaken Wastes
• 1 Generous Plunderer
• 1 Gleeful Arsonist
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
• 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
• 1 Kederekt Parasite
• 1 Leechridden Swamp
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Manabarbs
• 1 Mandate of Abaddon
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mithril Coat
• 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
• 1 Mount Doom
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Neheb, the Eternal
• 1 Not of This World
• 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Plaza of Heroes
• 1 Price of Glory
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Pyretic Ritual
• 1 Pyrostatic Pillar
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
• 1 Razorkin Needlehead
• 1 Roiling Vortex
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
• 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1 Shivan Gorge
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
• 1 Soul Shatter
• 1 Spellshock
• 1 Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit
• 1 Spiteful Visions
• 1 Sulfuric Vortex
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Terminate
• 1 The Meathook Massacre
• 1 Tibalt's Trickery
• 1 Underworld Dreams
• 1 Unnatural Endurance
• 1 Untimely Malfunction
• 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
• 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 Winds of Change
• 1 Witch's Clinic
• 1 Withering Torment
• 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher