korvold and kin by isekat

Format: Commander

Commander: Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Jund treasure-sacrifice value deck built around Korvold, Fae-Cursed King, aimed squarely at bracket-3 mid-power play: fair interaction, no fast mana, few tutors, and a mostly telegraphed game plan. The strategy is to create a massive economy of Treasure tokens and other fodder via Goldspan Dragon, Old Gnawbone, Xorn, Academy Manufactor, the three Smaug dragons, and token utility pieces like Pitiless Plunderer and Warren Soultrader - then sacrifice that fodder to Korvold and a suite of sacrifice outlets to draw cards, grow the commander, and trigger drain effects. The fastest real kill in the list is the compact Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Pitiless Plunderer + sacrifice-outlet loop feeding Mayhem Devil, Mirkwood Bats, Nadier's Nightblade, and Marionette Apprentice. Secondary wins are evasive dragon beatdown, a huge flying Korvold commander-damage clock, and the Hellkite Tyrant twenty-artifact alternate condition.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Alchemist's Talent
• 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Beledros Witherbloom
• 1 Beseech the Mirror
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bloodfell Caves
• 1 Bootleggers' Stash
• 1 Brass's Bounty
• 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1 Cinder Barrens
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cremate
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Decree of Pain
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dragon's Desire
• 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exhume
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 2 Forest
• 1 Goldlust Triad
• 1 Goldspan Dragon
• 1 Golgari Guildgate
• 1 Golgari Signet
• 1 Grim Hireling
• 1 Gruul Guildgate
• 1 Haunted Mire
• 1 Hellkite Tyrant
• 1 Ignoble Hierarch
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Jungle Hollow
• 1 Kellogg, Dangerous Mind
• 1 Kher Keep
• 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
• 1 Leyline Prowler
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Marionette Apprentice
• 1 Mayhem Devil
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Nadier's Nightblade
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Newfound Adventure
• 1 Old Gnawbone
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 1 Plaza of Heroes
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Prossh, Skyraider of Kher
• 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1 Rakdos Guildgate
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Read the Bones
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Return to Nature
• 1 Rottenmouth Viper
• 1 Rugged Highlands
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
• 1 Smaug the Magnificent
• 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spellbook
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Terminate
• 1 The Emperor, Hell Tyrant
• 1 The Lonely Mountain
• 1 The Meep
• 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
• 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
• 1 The Shire
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Warren Soultrader
• 1 Wooded Ridgeline
• 1 Xorn
• 1 Ziatora, the Incinerator