Korvold, Fae-Cursed King is one of the most popular commanders inMagic: The Gathering’sCommander format. It’s a Jund (black/red/green) Dragon Noble that allows you to draw a card and give it a +1/+1 counter whenever you sacrifice a permanent.
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There are many ways to build a Korvold, Fae-Cursed King commander deck thanks to both its color identity and openness of strategies that Korvold can support. Even though Korvold’s effect is beneficial for sacrifice-based strategies, there are plenty of other fantastic ways that Korvold, Fae-Cursed King can be used to support other archetypes while buffing itself to become a threat.
8+1/+1 Counters
+1/+1 Counter decks are based aroundspreading as many +1/+1 counters to all your creaturesas possible to make them all giant threats. Korvold’s own effects help you to boost its stats with counters naturally, and decks built around +1/+1 counters play cards that can easily double these counters.
Thanks to the command damage rule, it becomes trivial to deal large outbursts of damage with Korvold to take someone out of the game with 21 commander damage.
Permanents like Hardened Scales, The Ozolith, and Corpsejack Menace are staples of the strategy as a way to easily get more counters or keep them on the battlefield. There is no shortage of cards in Jund colors that can put counters on creatures to easily take advantage of the strategy’s many support cards.
7Fight Spells
Fight decks are built around making your creatures fight other creatures as a way to remove them. Since Korvold, Fae-Cursed King can become massive with +1/+1 counters thanks to its ability it becomes much easier to ensure it wins any fight you make it go into.
The strategy usually mixes in cards that give a stat boost which often finds themselves on fight spells themselves such as Ruthless Predation or Ancient Animus. Cards like Neyith of the Dire Hunt help you to keep drawing cards while your creatures fight while cards like Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus, and Mr Orfeo, the Boulder boost up stats to make your creatures all massive threats.
6Pod
Pod is a name given to decks that are built around sacrificing a creature to bring a stronger creature out from your deck. Named after Birthing Pod (which is also a staple of the strategy), your Pod deck wants to consist of creatures of every mana value that act as a toolbox to pull out to answer any specific situation.
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Since you are sacrificing a creature to use your pod effects this will trigger Korvold’s effect so you can keep up in card advantage while having a growing creature. Cards like Eldritch Evolution and Finale of Devastation help to boost your consistency, and since you have Jund colors, you gain access to the plethora of tutor cards to search out your main pod pieces to make the strategy function.
5Lands
Korvold, Fae-Cursed Kingdecks that are built around landsare generally playing lands that sacrifice themselves to fetch lands out from your library. This triggers Korvold’s effect while activating landfall triggers of your other creatures.
There are plenty of cards that let you play extra lands each turn such as Azusa, Lost but Seeking, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove, and Exploration. This becomes even stronger when you toss in cards that let you play lands from your graveyard like Crucible of Worlds and Ramunap Excavator.
Landfall payoffs include Scute Swarm and Omnath, Locus of Rage which both fill the battlefield with creatures. Staple lands included the mana fetchlands like Wooded Foothills, Bloodstained Mire, and Fabled Passage.
Jund has no shortage of cards that take advantage of lands entering the battlefield and going to the graveyard which makes it a perfect theme for Korvold decks.
4Aristocrats
Aristocrats is an archetype based around killing your own creatures (often by sacrifice) to gain the effects of cards that trigger when a creature dies.Prime examples of this include Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroatwhich will gain your life while burning your opponents.
The deck often runs a mixture of free sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer or Ashnod’s Altar and cards that want to die such as Sakura-Tribe Elder and Sprouting Thrinax.
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Since you are sacrificing a ton of creatures, Korvold’s effect will trigger plenty of times each turn. This lets you keep drawing cards to ensure you always have some kind of play to make.
3Treasure
Treasure tokens are among the easiest to make, especially in Jund colors. As such, Korvold is an excellent commander of choice for the strategy.
Since you are sacrificing a Treasure to actually use them each usage of a Treasure token allows you to draw a card and grow Korvold while ramping into massive threats.
There are plenty of strong Treasure support cards in Jund such as Revel In Riches, Goldspan Dragon, and Xorn that help you to make even more Treasure than usual. The deck wants to be ramping into massive threats (often Dragons that create Treasures) while taking advantage of cards that want to see permanents be sacrificed.
2Goblins
Though not obvious at first, Korvold, Fae-Cursed King isa fantastic commander for Goblin decks. Every single Goblin is in Jund colors which allow you to play any Goblin in the game.
Goblins also can very easily flood the battlefield with both tokens and Goblin creatures which in turn can be sacrificed to cards like Goblin Bombardment to deal damage, draw cards, and boost Korvold’s power.
There are plenty of Goblins that support each other and there is no shortage of infinite (or near-infinite) combos that can be done to ensure you win the game in one solid turn. Goblin Recruiter is one of the easiest ways to ensure your Goblins always hit the battlefield when combined with Muxus, Goblin Grandee.
1Sacrifice
Perhaps the most obvious archetype for Korvold, Fae-Cursed King, Sacrifice strategies shine under Korvold in the command zone. Korvold can trigger sacrificing on its own simply by attacking or entering the battlefield.
This strategy is often mixed with a token one to ensure you always have a creature to sacrifice whenever needed.
The deck playsplenty of ways to sacrificefor value as well with cards like Priest of Forgotten Gods and Riveteers Ascendancy. The cards in the 99 can range from permanents that burn such as Mayhem Devil to utility cards like Cankerbloom to destroy specific permanents.
