New Untitled Deck by user9440149

Format: Commander

Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This Rakdos Group Slug deck helmed by Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls weaponizes symmetrical and triggered life loss to suffocate opponents while generating massive personal card advantage. The strategy revolves around landing cheap, passive punisher permanents on turns 1–3, such as Razorkin Needlehead, Underworld Dreams, or Kederekt Parasite. When Valgavoth enters on turn 4, every opponent's natural draw step or game action triggers life loss, steadily growing the Elder Demon into a lethal flying threat while drawing up to three extra cards per turn cycle. From this solid card-advantage engine, the deck deploys crushing amplifiers like Bloodletter of Aclazotz, Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, Manabarbs, and Painful Quandary on turn 5. Opponents are caught in a vise where basic game actions—tapping mana, casting spells, or drawing cards—accelerate their own demise, culminating in explosive finishes via Torment of Hailfire, Wound Reflection, or lethal flying commander damage by turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curse of Fool's Wisdom
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadbore
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mayhem Patrol
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Nightshade Harvester
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Raid Bombardment
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Repercussion
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfuric Vortex
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wound Reflection