Year of the Dragon by user9518233

Format: Commander

Commander: Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 74

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized competitive Commander turbo-combo strategy led by Korvold, Fae-Cursed King. It aims to assemble an early win on Turn 3 using explosive acceleration, premier tutors, and massive card draw engines. The primary route converts fast mana and rituals into an early Ad Nauseam, Necropotence, or an Entomb line that reanimates Smaug the Impenetrable. Pairing Smaug with Mayhem Devil creates an infinite loop: every sacrifice triggers Mayhem Devil to damage the indestructible Smaug, which generates a Treasure token to sacrifice again for infinite mana and lethal direct damage to every opponent. If opponents interact, the deck easily pivots into Underworld Breach loops or utilizes Korvold, Fae-Cursed King to turn everyday fetchlands and tokens into overwhelming card advantage. A dense package of low-cost protection spells shields the combo during the winning turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Dance
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadpool, Trading Card
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evendo Brushrazer
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Final Fortune
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rain of Filth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Squandered Resources
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Summoner's Pact
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 The Cabbage Merchant
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zuran Orb