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Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
Legendary Creature — Elder Demon
Flying
Ward—Pay 2 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 2 life.)
Whenever an opponent loses life for the first time during each of their turns, put a +1/+1 counter on this and draw a card.
Optimator on
Moocifer Rising
2 months ago
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
might be mandatory.
The Speed Demon draws a ton of cards
Archon_Bel on "Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls" EDH …
8 months ago
I'm getting back into MtG after about one year and a half of not playing. Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls interests me because of the awesome artwork and ability to draw cards and get stronger without necessarily being an instant combo commander. I'd say I'm a casual player, but I like any deck I play to be fine-tuned, resilient, and effective in what it does. I still want to win, after all!
For this deck, I'm naturally thinking some kind of burn route with cards like Underworld Dreams and Sulfuric Vortex to consistently trigger Valgavoth's effect on every opponent's turn. Effects that punish the opponent for doing anything will also be effective in triggering the effect and whittling their life totals down. Additionally, I'm wanting to add in an aristocrats strategy for more life loss triggers, value, and more importantly, board control. A discard theme might also be nice, but aristocrats seems like it has more support.
Problem is that I'm not really familiar with either burn/punisher or aristocrats strategies, so I have no idea what cards and engines to put in a Rakdos deck. I have a Yawgmoth, Thran Physician deck, but that doesn't really need a whole lot of investment seeing how the commander is its own sac outlet, card draw, and board control.
tl;dr Valgavoth burn/sacrifice deck for life loss and board control. What do?
CommanderNeyo on
Everybody Hates Winter
8 months ago
Also, Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls might have a home here
amarthaler on
EDH Kardur, Doomscourge
9 months ago
Update!
Misread Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls text and don't think it fits. Replacing with Fiendish Duo.
Femme_Fatale on Official missing/incorrect card/token thread
9 months ago
JesterMaster: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls has been in for a while now. Is there something wrong with this borderless version?
amarthaler on
EDH Kardur, Doomscourge
9 months ago
Update!
Out: Immersturm Predator... Hot Pursuit
In: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls... Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
Gleeock on I'm semi-giving up magic
10 months ago
I've been slowly selling off the "collection" as well, getting out of buying new toys, & just playing a few decks I am happy with. So a couple of pointers that have been good for me on my remaining decks that I rarely get out to play:
1) Randomized but impactful effects, to guarantee you always end up playing a different game. Higher budget examples: Etali, Primal Conqueror Flip, Breach the Multiverse
2) Par down your color pie. Your mono example is not for me, but it does run in-line to this idea. This is a great opportunity to sell off a couple of specific-color staples & get rid of that WUBRG land base (if you had all that).
3) Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls not really control.. But IMO groupslug, done right, can be fun for your opponent specifically because you are NOT controlling their gameplay. Though, if you wanted Rakdos control suite, you can find a few cards that will accomplish that while drawing you a card.
4) Play off opponent's topdeck will not mess with their hand/limit resources. If you make a deck that does this, you have less need to "stay caught up/enfranchised" because you are as "caught up" to MtG as your opponents' are with this deck. This will be impactful, but always play differently (good qualities if you play infrequently). Eg. Rakdos, the Muscle
Metroid_Hybrid on I need an explanation
1 year ago
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls gets a +1/+1 counter and draws you a card the first time an opponent loses life during their turn, and Forsaken Wastes (2nd/middle ability) basically guarantees Valgavoth triggers at the beginning of each of your opponents' turns, everytime.
Also, being able to shutdown lifegain (1st ability) is nothing to sneeze at, and it even comes with a "rattlesnake"-effect (3rd ability).