Korvold by user7265606

Format: Commander

Commander: Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Jund aristocrats and midrange engine commanded by Korvold, Fae-Cursed King. The strategy accelerates mana on early turns using efficient mana dorks, land ramp, and Treasure producers before deploying Korvold on Turn 4. Once on the battlefield, every sacrifice—from fetchlands and creature tokens to Treasure and Food—draws cards and enlarges Korvold. The deck converts this immense card advantage into rapid game-ending pressure through aristocrat drain effects like Mirkwood Bats, Mayhem Devil, and Marionette Apprentice. While the list avoids compact two-card infinite combos, its dense token generation and burst velocity allow it to overpower opponents through a mix of lethal commander aerial damage and massive direct burn around Turn 6. Dedicated protection cards like Heroic Intervention, Deflecting Swat, and Sylvan Safekeeper safeguard key board states against interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bootleggers' Stash
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Horizon Explorer
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xorn
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
  • 1 Ziatora, the Incinerator
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat