Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls sits at the center of a pain-based engine that forces opponents to lose life constantly through passive damage enchantments that punish drawing cards, casting spells, and playing lands, growing Valgavoth with +1/+1 counters and fueling card draw every time an opponent takes damage on their turn. The deck amplifies this life loss through symmetrical card draw engines that trigger repeated chip damage, while goading effects like Disrupt Decorum redirect opponent creatures into fighting each other, generating even more life loss triggers. Once Valgavoth is large enough and the card advantage engine is running, the deck wins through commander damage and a relentless attrition of life totals across the table, with Exquisite Blood converting all that opponent life loss into a substantial life buffer.

No pain, no gain decklist

• Reliquary Tower
• Hex
• Zo-Zu the Punisher
• Rakdos Carnarium
• Underworld Dreams
• Terminate
• Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• Tibalt's Trickery
• Liquimetal Torque
• Cemetery Gatekeeper
• Exquisite Blood
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Make an Example
• Rug of Smothering
• Vengeful Ancestor
• Pain Distributor
• Magebane Lizard
• Bolt Bend
• Untimely Malfunction
• Giggling Skitterspike
• Arcane Signet
• Command Tower
• Mind Stone
• The Lord of Pain
• Gleeful Arsonist
• Persistent Constrictor
• Suspended Sentence
• Sadistic Shell Game
• Mogis, God of Slaughter
• Feed the Swarm
• Barbflare Gremlin
• Star Athlete
• Blood Seeker
• Blood Pact
• Lightning Greaves
• Infernal Grasp
• Rakdos, Lord of Riots
• Fate Unraveler
• Exotic Orchard
• Fellwar Stone
• Rakdos Signet
• Thought Vessel
• Basilisk Collar
• Temple of Malice
• Light Up the Stage
• Shadowblood Ridge
• Tainted Peak
• Blackcleave Cliffs
• Chaos Warp
• Canyon Slough
• Brash Taunter
• Enchanter's Bane
• Dragonskull Summit
• Florian, Voldaren Scion
• Foreboding Ruins
• Graven Cairns
• Harsh Mentor
• Leechridden Swamp
• Kederekt Parasite
• Kardur, Doomscourge
• Smoldering Marsh
• Morbid Opportunist
• Massacre Wurm
• Sign in Blood
• Spiteful Visions
• Talisman of Indulgence
• Sulfurous Springs
• Stormfist Crusader
• Razorkin Needlehead
• Blazemire Verge
• Scrawling Crawler
• Deadpool, Trading Card
• Bloodthirsty Conqueror
• Mai, Scornful Striker
• Changing Loyalty
• Luxury Suite
• Haunted Ridge
• Turbulent Crater
• Fabled Passage
• Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant
• Disrupt Decorum
• 9× Swamp
• 9× Mountain