Korvold CEDH Brew

Commander / EDH BRG (Jund) Combo Competitive

TheRoaringBlaze

Land (30)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 2x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 2x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring

Creature (23)

• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Orcish Lumberjack
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Squee, the Immortal
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Tinder Wall
• 1x Vexing Shusher
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Walking Ballista

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cabal Therapy
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Commander (1)

Instant (17)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Thrill of Possibility
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Cindervines
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Food Chain
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Squandered Resources

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Land (1)

• 1x Bojuka Bog

Instant (1)

• 1x Crop Rotation

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Deck based around using Korvold as a card draw engine by using fetchlands and the like to draw cards

Primer Coming Soon!

Why Korvold?

When looking at Korvold, Fae-Cursed King , the natural thought that comes to one’s head is stax, as his sacrifice clause helps to break parity and help pull ahead out of your stax effects. However, Korvold’s ability is ridiculously good; sacrificing ANY permanent, including lands, draws you cards. Aside from the incidental value from cards like fetch lands, cards like Squandered Resources + Dockside Extortionist can provide huge amounts of mana to go off, and with Korvold active, and incredible amount of card draw to hit tutors for combo pieces. As such, this is a much different take on a Korvold deck, being a deck that aims to rush out Korvold as fast as possible and to gain incredible amounts of value from his abilities, then cashing in all your permanents for the chance to win. This deck’s primary goal is to win in the first few turns of the game, between 2-5, when defenses and stax effects aren’t up.

You may enjoy this Korvold build if:

• You enjoy the sort of puzzle most storm decks play

• You like to live on the edge, and are willing to sacrifice everything for the win

• You like throwing people off when you bust out your deck

• You like drawing 20 cards in a turn

You may not like this deck if:

• You don’t like the idea of sacrificing everything only to fizzle

• You hate life loss with a passion

• You play against a lot of decks that play Rest in Peace

• You want to have countermagic always ready

• You want to play a slower game

Combos

Food Chain

The main combo of the deck, it’s probably the easiest to assemble due to the fact Squee can be cast from anywhere, Food Chain costs three mana, and that exiling Korvold or Razaketh to FC pays for Squee’s casting cost.

Requires: Food Chain + Squee, the Immortal

• Cast Squee and sacrifice to FC, netting 4 red for casting creatures

• Replay Squee from exile, and repeat this loop for infinite red mana, then filter that mana into green and black by casting Squee with infinite and sac’ing for a different color.

• Draw your deck by casting Squee, then Korvold, sacrificing Squee to Korvold to draw a card, sacrificing Korvold to Food Chain, recasting Squee and repeating this loop

• Find Walking Ballista and just win OR run through library to find Lion's Eye Diamond + Kozilek, Butcher of Truth , crack LED for mana and color of mana you want, discarding Kozilek and shuffling your graveyard into your library, and repeat for infinite mana and ability to cast all spells in library

Protean Hulk

The secondary combo of the deck, this isn’t consistent as Food Chain, but it does lead to the fastest kills from this deck, as simply reanimating and then sacrificing Hulk isn’t that hard, and the actual combo wins the game on the spot

Requires: Sacrifice Protean Hulk

• Grab Viscera Seer + Phyrexian Delver , reanimate and sac Hulk,

• Sac Hulk to Seer, and grab Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and Walking Ballista to damage out table.

• If Ballista OR Mikaeus is somehow dealt with, sacrifice Delver to Seer which will ETB due to undying, bringing back Hulk, then sac Hulk one final time for Temur Sabertooth + Dockside Extortionist , which will generate infinite mana if your opponents control 5 or more collective artifacts and enchantments, and, with Korvold, that means infinite draw.

Jund Razakats

Since the easiest way to get out a Protean Hulk in black is through reanimation, I figured it’d be nice to add in a Razaketh package to give the deck some consistency, since having Kozilek, Butcher of Truth , Protean Hulk , and Mikaeus, the Unhallowed makes utilizing ad nauseum nearly impossible.

Food Chain Line

Requires G floating, 1 creature, 3 lands, Razaketh on the field

• Sacrifice first creature to grab Life / Death

• Cast Life

• Sac 2 lands for both Squee, the Immortal and Lion's Eye Diamond

• Crack LED for GGG, discarding your hand and Squee

• Sac the final land to grab Food Chain

• Cast FC and exile Razaketh to FC for RRRRRRRR, then recast Squee and create infinite creature mana in red, green, and black.

• Using this infinite mana, cast Squee, cast Korvold sac’ing Squee to draw a card, exile Korvold to FC, and repeat this loop to draw your deck, and win from there using Walking Ballista or the Lion's Eye Diamond + Kozilek, Butcher of Truth loop.

Protean Hulk Line

In general, this line isn’t as compact as the Food Chain line, and requires a lot more life loss; however, this is a good back up plan in the event of Food Chain being interacted with

Requires G floating, 1 creature, 3 lands, Razaketh on the field

• Sacrifice first creature to grab Life / Death

• Cast Life

• Sac 2 lands for both Protean Hulk and Lion's Eye Diamond

• Crack LED for BBB, discarding your hand and Hulk

• Sac the final land to grab Animate Dead

• Cast Animate Dead, then Sac Hulk to Razaketh. Here, you’ll grab Viscera Seer with Razaketh, and then grab Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and Walking Ballista with Hulk’s death trigger

• Using your last floating B, cast Seer, then damage out the table with Walking Ballista pings

Dockside Extortionist Line

Requires Razaketh on the field, 1RG Floating, 1 creature, 2 lands, and your opponents to have 5 or more artifacts and/or enchantments

• Sac one creature for Life / Death

• Cast Life

• Sac a land for Dockside Extortionist

• Cast Extortionist, generating at least 5 treasures

• Sac Extortionist for Reanimate

• Play Reanimate targeting Extortionist, creating 5 more treasures

• Sac final land for Temur Sabertooth ; play and activate Sabertooth, bouncing Extortionist back to hand

• Go off with infinite mana and infinite sacrifice triggers

Potential Changes to Deck

If you feel especially confident in the Temur Sabertooth plan, there is a plan to just go for that straight away with Protean Hulk, affording you the option to cut Viscera Seer , Mikaeus, the Unhallowed , and Phyrexian Delver . I personally don’t do this, as some decks are artifact/enchantment light, and as such will reduce the likelihood this combo will go off; regardless, going with this plan allows for more interaction/tutors in the place of these pieces, so it’s something to consider

• You can also just cut the Protean Hulk package entirely, opting for just the Food Chain and Dockside Extortionist lines with Razaketh.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.09
Tokens	Treasure
Folders	decks