SACRIFICE by Mtgplayerkid

Format: Commander

Commander: Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Jund Aristocrats build commanded by Korvold, Fae-Cursed King. It leverages early ramp and sacrificial permanents to deploy Korvold ahead of curve on Turn 4, immediately generating card advantage and +1/+1 counters. By Turn 5, Korvold swings as a lethal flying threat while card draw fuels aristocrats drain engines powered by Mayhem Devil, Blood Artist, and Al Bhed Salvagers. High-impact sorceries and artifacts like Bolas's Citadel and Peer into the Abyss provide explosive mid-game turns that bypass traditional resource constraints. While the deck possesses massive card velocity and resilient recursion packages, it relies heavily on permanent-based board states and lacks dense instant-speed protection, making timing and threat deployment critical.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Al Bhed Salvagers
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Broken Wings
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Cover-Up
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fear of Lost Teeth
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fight On!
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Footbottom Feast
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Lethal Protection
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Manalith
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Morbid Curiosity
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Ominous Asylum
  • 1 Omnipresence
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Planar Engineering
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Risky Research
  • 1 Roiling Regrowth
  • 1 Sanguimancy
  • 1 Sanitarium Skeleton
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Surveillance Room
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Symbiote Spawn
  • 1 Thraxodemon
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Undercity Dire Rat
  • 1 Vector, Imperial Capital
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wilderness Reclamation
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God
  • 1 Zombify