Endless Punishment

Bracket 2
DSC — Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander · 2024-09-27
Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls · Color identity: BR

Bracket

B2

Power Level

4.6/10

Tipping Point

T4

Game Changers

0

Why this bracket?

  • 5 life-drain payoffs — a repeatable table-draining engine — but the goldfish sim wins around turn 7 (Bracket 2 "Core" pace, ~8+ turns), not the ~6-7 of an Upgraded deck, so this theme engine alone does not floor Bracket 3
  • Borderline verdict — close to B3: the measured goldfish clock (average hand wins turn 7) is one turn from Upgraded pace
  • Noncombat burst finish: Brash Taunter + Blasphemous Act — finite and board-dependent, so it doesn't trip the two-card-infinite floor, but it's a real combo kill this list is built toward
  • High optimization — score 25/75 (15 interaction spells, 17 card-advantage sources, 1 fast-mana sources) — raises this deck above its hard floor
  • Engine accuracy reference: 100% bracket-in-range across 36 validation decks (engine beats Claude Sonnet/Opus/Haiku on bracket-exact).

How it compares

Against the 4 Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander decks we analyzed, this is 3rd strongest — power 4.6 versus a set average of 4.8. That is about average for the library (4.7 across 64 precons). Its Tipping Point lands on turn 4, the same as the library median.

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6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls's color identity, none over $20, and none of them a Game Changer, so none forces a Bracket 3 floor on its own. Adding cards can still move the bracket: paste the updated list back into the calculator to re-check.

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
1 The Lord of Pain
1 Persistent Constrictor
1 Sadistic Shell Game
1 Suspended Sentence
1 Barbflare Gremlin
1 Gleeful Arsonist
1 Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit
1 Star Athlete
1 Séance Board
1 Bedevil
1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
1 Decree of Pain
1 Fate Unraveler
1 Kederekt Parasite
1 Mask of Griselbrand
1 Massacre Girl
1 Massacre Wurm
1 Nightshade Harvester
1 Blasphemous Act
1 Brash Taunter
1 Chaos Warp
1 Combustible Gearhulk
1 Enchanter's Bane
1 Harsh Mentor
1 Rampaging Ferocidon
1 Tectonic Giant
1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
1 Kaervek the Merciless
1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
1 Spiteful Visions
1 Stormfist Crusader
1 Theater of Horrors
1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
1 Basilisk Collar
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Canyon Slough
1 Dragonskull Summit
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Foreboding Ruins
1 Graven Cairns
1 Shadowblood Ridge
1 Shivan Gorge
1 Smoldering Marsh
1 Spinerock Knoll
1 Sulfurous Springs
1 Temple of Malice
1 Witch's Clinic
1 Fear of Burning Alive
1 Grab the Prize
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Blood Pact
1 Blood Seeker
1 Feed the Swarm
1 Arcane Signet
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Sol Ring
1 Command Tower
1 Bastion of Remembrance
1 Blood Artist
1 Falkenrath Noble
1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1 Infernal Grasp
1 Morbid Opportunist
1 Sign in Blood
1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
1 Light Up the Stage
1 Kardur, Doomscourge
1 Mayhem Devil
1 Rakdos Charm
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Mind Stone
1 Rakdos Signet
1 Talisman of Indulgence
1 Thought Vessel
1 Ash Barrens
1 Bloodfell Caves
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Geothermal Bog
1 Leechridden Swamp
1 Tainted Peak
1 Temple of the False God
4 Swamp
4 Swamp
4 Mountain
4 Mountain
Bracket assignment per WotC Commander Brackets Beta. Decklist sourced from MTGJSON (https://mtgjson.com/api/v5/decks/EndlessPunishment_DSC.json). Analyzed against https://scrollvault.net on 2026-10-02.