Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls sits at the center of a death-by-a-thousand-cuts strategy that forces opponents to bleed life constantly through card draw triggers, spell casting punishments, land drops, and passive upkeep drains, triggering Valgavoth's ability on each opponent's turn to accumulate +1/+1 counters and draw cards at a rapid pace. The deck amplifies this damage with enchantments and creatures that punish drawing cards, like Underworld Dreams and its redundant equivalents, while Kaervek the Merciless and similar pieces punish spell casting, ensuring no action an opponent takes is free. Once Valgavoth grows large enough, Chandra's Ignition can function as a near-instant-win finisher, dealing its massive power as damage to every opponent simultaneously.

Endless Punishment Commander WIP decklist

• Reliquary Tower
• Hex
• Rakdos Carnarium
• Underworld Dreams
• Whip of Erebos
• Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• Tibalt's Trickery
• Liquimetal Torque
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Make an Example
• Rug of Smothering
• Pain Distributor
• Chandra's Ignition
• Bolt Bend
• Fear of Burning Alive
• Untimely Malfunction
• 8× Swamp
• 8× Mountain
• Giggling Skitterspike
• Arcane Signet
• Command Tower
• Mind Stone
• Bedevil
• The Lord of Pain
• Gleeful Arsonist
• Persistent Constrictor
• Suspended Sentence
• Sadistic Shell Game
• Mogis, God of Slaughter
• Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit
• Feed the Swarm
• Barbflare Gremlin
• Star Athlete
• Blood Seeker
• Blood Pact
• Lightning Greaves
• Infernal Grasp
• Rakdos, Lord of Riots
• Fate Unraveler
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• Exotic Orchard
• Fellwar Stone
• Rakdos Signet
• Thought Vessel
• Temple of Malice
• Light Up the Stage
• Shadowblood Ridge
• Tainted Peak
• Blackcleave Cliffs
• Combustible Gearhulk
• Chaos Warp
• Canyon Slough
• Brash Taunter
• Enchanter's Bane
• Dragonskull Summit
• Geothermal Bog
• Florian, Voldaren Scion
• Foreboding Ruins
• Graven Cairns
• Harsh Mentor
• Leechridden Swamp
• Kederekt Parasite
• Kaervek the Merciless
• Kardur, Doomscourge
• Spinerock Knoll
• Smoldering Marsh
• Morbid Opportunist
• Massacre Wurm
• Nightshade Harvester
• Sign in Blood
• Spiteful Visions
• Talisman of Indulgence
• Sulfurous Springs
• Stormfist Crusader
• Theater of Horrors
• Witch's Clinic
• Razorkin Needlehead
• Blazemire Verge
• Scrawling Crawler
• Deadpool, Trading Card
• Mai, Scornful Striker
• Luxury Suite
• Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant
• Haunted Ridge
• Fabled Passage