Commander Deck Tech: Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

The more we play Commander, the more color combinations and strategies we want to try out. If you're itching for a new strategy, Korvold, Fae-Cursed King is a Jund option that could make your matches a lot of fun.

This fearsome cursed Dragon is the main star of today's article. We'll show you two lists with it: one that centers around sacrificing cards and one that centers around artifacts, as well as many cards that create Treasures.

Let's start with our commander!

Korvold was once a human king, as well as very greedy. On his wedding day, a few Fae cursed him as punishment for his actions. That same day, Korvold, now a Dragon, devoured his wedding feast, gifts, and even guests to celebrate.

When Korvold enters or attacks, you must sacrifice another permanent. And, when you sacrifice a permanent (through any effect), you'll put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.

This legendary card is in the perfect colors to combine burn, death triggers, and ramp. The result is a consistent build that will take advantage of everything that leaves your board to buff Korvold and get ahead in the game.

Our main list plays a few classic cards you can often find in Aristocrat decks, as well as many ETB effects.

Let's start with life drain.

Life Drain

One of the easiest types of permanents to sacrifice is creatures. From board wipes, like Blasphemous Edict, to common spells, like Deadly Dispute, many cards in the game are great in this type of strategy. So, we got a few that drain life, particularly when creatures die on the board, and added them to this list.

Blood Artist, Bastion of Remembrance, and Zulaport Cutthroat are classic in Aristocrat decks. We simply had to add them to this list.

We also added Mayhem Devil, which interacts really well with Korvold. After all, when any permanent is sacrificed, it deals damage.

Syr Konrad, the Grim deals damage when creatures die, when creatures are put in any graveyard from the deck or the hand, and when creatures leave your graveyard.

When it is in play, your opponent will have to think twice before playing a Bojuka Bog.

Sacrifice

We must sacrifice permanents to feed our Dragon, so let's get a lot of cards that do that or interact with that.

Umbral Collar Zealot is interesting because it lets you sacrifice creatures or artifacts. We'll use Butcher of Malakir's and Dictate of Erebos' abilities to remove resources from our opponents when we sacrifice our creatures.

You can always find Lilianas in decks that center around creatures dying, and this one is no different.

With this creature in play, you'll draw a card whenever one of your creatures dies, and you can use her abilities to create Zombie tokens, force opponents to sacrifice cards, or even clear their board.

We also added another Dragon to our list: Prossh, Skyraider of Kher.

It costs six mana and lets you create 0/1 Korvold creatures when it enters according to how much mana you spend to cast it.

Sacrifice cards to ramp? Yes, please!

Entish Restoration, Roiling Regrowth, and Harrow do exactly that. On the other side, you can sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder to bring a basic land into play from your deck.

We also added some lands you can sacrifice, such as:

Recursion

As this list plays lots of lands we can sacrifice, we'll need recursion to reuse them and bring back a few permanents that might end up in our graveyard.

Crucible of Worlds and Ramunap Excavator, which often show up in Landfall lists, will bring our lands back from our graveyard.

To return creatures, we'll play Meren of Clan Nel Toth, which famously interacts with experience counters.

Its effect triggers at the beginning of the end step and lets you return a creature from your graveyard. The only condition is that its CMC has to be the same or less than the number of experience counters you have in play.

Six is one of the coolest recursion cards we can use in green decks because it gives the permanents in our graveyard retrace. This means we can cast these permanents if we discard a land and pay their costs.

This won't grow Korvold, but it is valuable and will be quite useful.

Now that you've seen how the fearsome Korvold, Fae-Cursed King interacts with creatures, it's time to see how he interacts with artifacts.

Like any Dragon, Korvold is greedy and wants to hoard lots of Treasures. In turn, you'll use these to make him a dangerous threat on the board.

This list might center around artifacts, but we were able to add cards that deal damage when they enter or leave the board, which will interact really well with Mayhem Devil. A few of these cards are Reckless Fireweaver, Mirkwood Bats, and Nadier's Nightblade.

If at the beginning of this article you thought the best Aristocrat commanders were Orzhov , then we hope Korvold, Fae-Cursed King opened your mind.

Whether it's a list centered around creatures, tokens, lands, or artifacts, this commander is and will always be a big threat on the board. He'll also give you lots of cards in return.

Besides his effects, Korvold is a 4/4 flying creature that grows with the +1/+1 counters you'll put on him as you sacrifice cards. You'll have no trouble removing a player from the match by dealing 21 commander damage with this Dragon in your command zone.

Finally, Korvold can be great for both beginners and experienced players.

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Thank you for reading, and see you next time!