Korvold, Bae-Cursed King by connorvk

Format: Commander

Commander: Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Jund Aristocrats engine helmed by Korvold, Fae-Cursed King. The strategy focuses on accelerating mana through low-cost mana dorks and artifacts, establishing steady token generation, and deploying Korvold to convert every sacrifice into massive card draw and power growth. A dense suite of aristocrat payoffs including Mayhem Devil, Marionette Apprentice, Blood Artist, and Bastion of Remembrance drains opponents whenever creatures die or Treasures are cracked. Sacrificial mana generators like Warren Soultrader and Ashnod's Altar enable explosive mid-game turns, fueling mass card draw spells like Plumb the Forbidden and one-sided board wipes like Culling Ritual. Grave Pact and Mayhem Devil establish asymmetric board control by stripping opposing creatures whenever the pilot sacrifices tokens. The deck reliably creates critical pressure on Turn 5 and closes games by Turn 7 through lethal commander combat and distributed drain damage, protected by efficient defensive spells like Deflecting Swat and Heroic Intervention.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Compy Swarm
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat