Valgavoth, Terror Eater

Announced 28 October 2025 with 7.5.1, Valvagoth is a graveyard hoser without compare, and logically, has potential to remain incomparably good at disrupting graveyard play. After all, since it comes from an always active Passive ability, the only way to stop the disruption is to end the game.

Valvagoth is also one of the first two non-Origins-reboot Planeswalkers to return to Hibernum's scaling loyalty ability costs - except in reverse. It makes more sense to make reduced cost an increase in power, given at higher level, and it avoids the strategy that players took when they saw loyalty ability costs rise as the PWs leveled - don't level them.

Passive Ability - Terror Eater - Whenever a card enters your opponent’s graveyard from anywhere, it is exiled instead.

"Valgavoth's will bring you to:

Infest creatures and they will either weaken or die and become manifested dreads. Create rooms that retaliate when the opponent kills your creatures. Create the very own Heart of Duskmourn to manifest all of Valgavoth’s power."

Colors: Black

Total Leveling Cost: 79920

At Level 60 -

HP: 129

Mana Bonuses: White (-1) Blue (+1) Black (+8) Red (+1) Green (0)

Deck Limits: 09 Creatures, 06 Spells, 04 Supports

Ability 1 - Infested Air (Cost 06)

Level 1: Target creature gets -1/-1.

Level 2: Target creature gets -1/-1. If that creature would die this turn — Manifest Dread.

Level 3: Target creature gets -2/-2. If that creature would die this turn — Manifest Dread.

Level 4: Target creature gets -3/-3. If that creature would die this turn — Manifest Dread.

Ability 2 - Seeded Fears (Cost 16/14/12/10)

Level 1: Create a Worst Nightmare token. [When a creature you control dies: Destroy this support. When this support is destroyed: Destroy an opposing non-Land Support at random. Otherwise: your opponent loses 10 life.]

Level 2: Create a Worst Nightmare token.

Level 3: Create a Worst Nightmare token.

Level 4: Create a Worst Nightmare token.

Ability 3 - The Heart of Duskmourn (Cost 25/22/20/18)

Level 1: Create a The Heart of Duskmourn token. [While this support is on the board, your creatures gain Lifelink. At the end of each player's turn: Create a copy of a random card in opponent's exile into your hand. That card gains full mana. When you cast a copy of a card: Loses 10 life.]

Level 2: Create a The Heart of Duskmourn token.

Level 3: Create a The Heart of Duskmourn token.

Level 4: Create a The Heart of Duskmourn token

Story

"Valgavoth was first summoned to the mortal plane of what would one day be known as Duskmourn by a family trying to summon a harmless servant spirit. The family soon realized what they had summoned and bound the demon to their old house, where he stayed, lurking. Centuries later, Valgavoth tricked a young Marina Vendrell into bringing a group of her bullies to the house, and with this first sacrifice, the demon started his growth. He expanded his house to encompass the whole plane, in what is now known as Duskmourn."