Korvold by Firebirdkeeper

Format: Commander

Commander: Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 82

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered competitive EDH (cEDH) Jund turbo-storm and sacrifice engine commanded by Korvold, Fae-Cursed King. It aims to assemble a decisive victory on Turn 2 to 3 through format-ceiling acceleration, explosive rituals, and premier card-advantage engines like Ad Nauseam and Underworld Breach. Once an engine resolves, the deck leverages sacrificial loops—such as Underworld Breach paired with Stitcher's Supplier and Culling the Weak, or Warren Soultrader combined with Chatterfang, Squirrel General—to generate unbounded mana, mill the library, and drain the entire table simultaneously using Mayhem Devil, Marionette Apprentice, or Cut // Ribbons. The deck is heavily shielded against opposing interaction via silence and anti-counter effects like Dosan the Falling Leaf, Hexing Squelcher, Veil of Summer, and free spells like Deflecting Swat. Even if its primary line is contested, redundant graveyard recursion and Korvold's massive card draw allow for immediate recovery.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cut // Ribbons
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dosan the Falling Leaf
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Krosan Wayfarer
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Crypt
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rain of Filth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squandered Resources
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Summoner's Pact
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wild Cantor
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth