Endless Punishment - Upgraded by test_account_02

Format: Commander

Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Rakdos Group Slug engine commanded by Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls. The strategy focuses on turning symmetrical damage and resource-punishing cards into completely asymmetric advantages. By deploying low-cost punishment permanents like Roiling Vortex, Razorkin Needlehead, and Underworld Dreams, the deck ensures that every opponent loses life on their turn. This repeatedly triggers Valgavoth to grow into a massive flying threat while drawing up to three extra cards per table rotation. The massive card velocity quickly digs into definitive win conditions, primarily the two-card infinite life-drain combos of Exquisite Blood paired with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Enduring Tenacity, or Bloodthirsty Conqueror. In addition, cards like Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Manabarbs, and Teferi's Puzzle Box rapidly deplete opposing life totals and lock down games without relying on combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Anvil of Bogardan
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Burning Inquiry
  • 1 Citadel of Pain
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Horn of Greed
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mai, Scornful Striker
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Rug of Smothering
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellshock
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Temple Bell
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Winds of Change
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher