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 (12 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 4.6. That is about average for the library (4.7 across 58 precons). Its Tipping Point lands on turn 4, the same as the library median.

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls's colour 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 2026-08-07.