Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls by Razide82

Format: Commander

Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos group-slug and punisher strategy commanded by Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls. It establishes early board presence by casting low-cost damage sources such as Roiling Vortex, Razorkin Needlehead, and Underworld Dreams. When Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls enters on turn 4, these continuous life-loss triggers draw up to three extra cards per turn cycle while rapidly growing the commander into a lethal airborne threat. The deck converts this steady card flow into damage multipliers like Torbran, Thane of Red Fell, Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, and Bloodletter of Aclazotz, greatly accelerating table-wide burn. Free interaction like Deflecting Swat and Deadly Rollick protects key permanents and disrupts opponents without slowing your mana curve. As opponents struggle under taxes on drawing, casting spells, and playing lands, accumulated noncombat damage and flying attacks close the game by turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ankh of Mishra
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Chandra, Awakened Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copper Tablet
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eidolon of the Great Revel
  • 1 Emberwilde Captain
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hearthborn Battler
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magebane Lizard
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Nuclear Fallout
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Perforating Artist
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Rug of Smothering
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Screaming Nemesis
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spellshock
  • 1 Sulfuric Vortex
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent
  • 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher