Maxxing out Valgavoth The key feature this guide wants to focus on is Valgavoths final ability, Whenever an opponent loses life for the first time during each of their turns, put a +1/+1 counter on Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls and draw a card. Not only does this give us some nice card draw, allowing us to manage whats in our hand, but it allows us to grow the commander into a truly terrifying flier
When Paul asked if the box set was the only one in the world, another person said offscreen that "until somebody shows another one, it's the only one." In other words, these are rare packages indeed
While it does have a slightly beefy mana cost, this play rate does seem remarkably low for a colorless value engine
The description and image are playful too
While the card has not seen much play outside the aptly named Blue-Red Murktide deck, the archetype has been one of the best decks in Modern since Modern Horizons 2 and continues to be so, and it is all thanks to this card
It started as a budget brew like this one but ended up being way too strong for my group so I morphed it into my CEDH deck
