korvold dragons by LittleNV

Format: Commander

Commander: Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Jund Aristocrats and Treasure engine commanded by Korvold, Fae-Cursed King. The primary strategy focuses on deploying early mana acceleration on turns 1 and 2 to cast Korvold ahead of curve on turn 4. Once Korvold enters the battlefield, any sacrificed permanent—including fetchlands, creature tokens, and Treasures—grows the commander while continuously drawing cards to refill your hand. The deck converts this overwhelming card and mana advantage into a win on turns 5 and 6 through scalable burn payoffs like Mirkwood Bats, Mayhem Devil, and Marionette Apprentice, or a massive Torment of Hailfire. A robust removal package featuring Assassin's Trophy, Deadly Rollick, and Deflecting Swat protects the board and disrupts opponents. Even if Korvold is removed or denied, redundant token engines such as Chatterfang, Squirrel General and Academy Manufactor maintain lethal table-wide pressure with minimal delay.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bootleggers' Stash
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Molten Collapse
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Cabbage Merchant
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor