Endless Punishment Commander Deck Upgrade Guide

Braids, Arisen Nightmare is a 3/3 for {1}{B}{B} that sacrifices a permanent at your end step to make each opponent sacrifice one or lose 2 life and draw you a card. It is played in about one Valgavoth deck in six.

Razorkin Needlehead is a 2/2 for {R}{R} with first strike on your turn. Whenever an opponent draws a card, it deals 1 damage to them. A two-drop that pings an opponent on every draw, including their draw step, and is the highest-scoring card the precon leaves out.

Bastion of Remembrance makes a 1/1 Human Soldier and drains 1 whenever a creature you control dies. It is played in about one Valgavoth deck in six.

Roiling Vortex costs {1}{R}: at the beginning of each player's upkeep it deals 1 damage to them, and whenever a player casts a spell for no mana it deals 5 damage to them. For {R} your opponents can't gain life. Every upkeep is a Valgavoth trigger.

Combustible Gearhulk is a six-mana first striker that lets an opponent choose between giving you three cards and milling you for damage. It is played in about one Valgavoth deck in six.

Underworld Dreams costs {B}{B}{B}: whenever an opponent draws a card, it deals 1 damage to that player. Every draw step and every cantrip pings, and it is a three-mana enchantment.

Fear of Burning Alive is a six-mana 4/4 that deals 4 damage to each opponent when it enters. It is played in about one Valgavoth deck in seven.

Rug of Smothering is a 1/3 flying artifact creature for {3}. Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 1 life for each spell they have cast this turn. Cast a second spell and you lose 2, but your opponents do too. It is a three-mana source of life loss and a flier.

Tectonic Giant is a 3/4 for {2}{R}{R} that either deals 3 damage to each opponent or exiles cards to play when it attacks or is targeted. It is played in about one Valgavoth deck in six.

Sulfuric Vortex costs {1}{R}{R}: at the beginning of each player's upkeep it deals 2 damage to that player, and players cannot gain life. A repeated 2 damage every upkeep, and life loss on opponents' turns.

Light Up the Stage exiles the top two cards for you to play, with spectacle for {R} if an opponent lost life this turn. It is played in about one Valgavoth deck in five.

Painful Quandary costs {3}{B}{B}: whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card. Every spell is a card from their hand or 5 life, and either one is good for you.

Barbflare Gremlin is a 3/2 first strike, haste creature for {3}{R}. When it is tapped, every land tapped for mana adds an extra mana and deals 1 damage to that player. It is played in about one Valgavoth deck in six.

Mai, Scornful Striker is a 2/2 first striker for {1}{B}: whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, they lose 2 life. A two-drop that punishes every instant, sorcery and artifact.

Florian, Voldaren Scion is a 3/3 first striker for {1}{B}{R} that digs for cards based on life your opponents lost this turn. It is played in about one Valgavoth deck in five.

Magebane Lizard is a 1/4 for {1}{R}. Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, it deals damage to that player equal to the number of noncreature spells they have cast this turn. A cheap blocker that punishes noncreature spells.

Séance Board is a two-mana artifact that makes mana for instants, sorceries, Demons and Spirits once creatures have died. It is slow and played in about one Valgavoth deck in five.

Revenge of Ravens costs {3}{B}: whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. Every attack drains an opponent and keeps you safe.

Enchanter's Bane deals damage equal to an enchantment's mana value to its controller unless they sacrifice it. It is a narrow card, played in about one Valgavoth deck in six.

Gideon the Oathless is a 3/3 for {2}{B} with ward (discard a card). Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, it deals 1 damage to that player, and whenever an opponent activates a loyalty ability, it deals 1 damage to that player. A three-drop that pings for every creature and planeswalker.

Theater of Horrors is a three-mana enchantment that exiles a card each upkeep for you to play if an opponent lost life. It is played in about one Valgavoth deck in five.

Scrawling Crawler is a 3/2 artifact creature for {3}. At the beginning of your upkeep each player draws a card, and whenever an opponent draws a card that player loses 1 life. Every opponent loses life at least twice a turn, which triggers Valgavoth's draw and counter.

Mask of Griselbrand is a three-mana Equipment that gives flying and lifelink and draws cards when the creature dies. It is played in about one Valgavoth deck in five.

Manabarbs costs {3}{R}. Whenever a player taps a land for mana, it deals 1 damage to that player. Every opponent loses life on their own turn, and Valgavoth gets a counter and a card the first time it happens.

Morbid Opportunist is a 1/3 that draws a card when other creatures die, once each turn. It is played in about one Valgavoth deck in three.

Chandra, Awakened Inferno is a six-mana planeswalker that can't be countered. Her +2 gives each opponent an emblem that deals 1 damage to them at each of their upkeeps, and her -3 deals 3 damage to each non-Elemental creature. Every emblem is life loss that Valgavoth draws from.