🐉 Dragon King 🐉 by Trishot

Format: Commander

Commander: Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 82

Deck overview

This deck is a high-speed competitive Commander list designed to win through compact combo lines or overwhelming card advantage. Its primary route pairs Witherbloom Apprentice with Chain of Smog to drain the entire table on the stack. The deck accelerates into its win conditions using format-ceiling fast mana, dark rituals, and low-cost tutors. When not executing an early win, it resolves massive draw engines like Ad Nauseam, Necropotence, The One Ring, or its commander, Korvold, Fae-Cursed King, to assemble redundancy. It supports resilient backup plans via Underworld Breach recursion and modular persist creature loops with Melira, Sylvok Outcast, Grumgully, the Generous, and sacrifice outlets. Efficient stack interaction such as Veil of Summer, Deflecting Swat, and Pyroblast protects its critical execution windows.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grumgully, the Generous
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Rendclaw Trow
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Cabbage Merchant
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Undead Hand Ninja
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zuran Orb