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Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
Legendary Creature — Dragon Noble · {2}{B}{R}{G} · Black/Green/Red commander
Flying
Whenever Korvold enters or attacks, sacrifice another permanent.
Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Korvold and draw a card.
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What Korvold, Fae-Cursed King actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · attackWhenever Korvold enters or attacks, sacrifice another permanent.
- Triggered ability · sacrificeWhenever you sacrifice a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Korvold and draw a card.
- Keyword · flyingflying
What a Korvold, Fae-Cursed King deck needs
Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- free sacrifice outlets and expendable permanents — tokens, Treasures, Clues, Food (every sacrifice draws a card and grows Korvold)
- haste, evasion and protection for the commander (each attack forces a sacrifice — make it a free one)
- blink or recast for another enter-sacrifice
The Korvold, Fae-Cursed King deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 6× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 12× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- 6× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
Best cards for Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- Rising of the Day3 mana
- Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
- Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler3 mana
- The Fire Crystal4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Urabrask the Hidden5 mana
- Fervor3 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Norin the Wary1 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Golden Argosy4 mana
- Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno6 mana
- Diabolic Servitude4 mana
- Meandering Towershell5 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Carrion Feeder1 mana
- Viscera Seer1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Goblin Bombardment2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
- Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
- Dark Privilege2 mana
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Nurgle's Rot1 mana
- Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Old-Growth Troll3 mana
- Exquisite Huntmaster4 mana
- Grixis Slavedriver6 mana
- Impulsive Pilferer1 mana
- Vivi's Persistence2 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Cauldron Familiar1 mana
- Dualcaster Mage3 mana
- Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
- Goblin War Drums3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Gruul War Chant4 mana
- Archetype of Aggression3 mana
- Sonorous Howlbonder3 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Branching Evolution3 mana
- Hardened Scales1 mana
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
- Winding Constrictor2 mana
- Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
- Benevolent Hydra2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
- The Earth Crystal4 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Assassin's Trophy2 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
Combos with Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Korvold, Fae-Cursed King is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Korvold, Fae-Cursed King + Animation Module + Ashnod's Altar919 decks
- Korvold, Fae-Cursed King + Animation Module + Pitiless Plunderer + Viscera Seer581 decks
- Korvold, Fae-Cursed King + Animation Module + Phyrexian Altar524 decks
- Korvold, Fae-Cursed King + Animation Module + Pitiless Plunderer + Goblin Bombardment434 decks
- Korvold, Fae-Cursed King + Blood Pet + Mortuary205 decks
- Korvold, Fae-Cursed King + Mayhem Devil + Mortuary + Blood Pet170 decks
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