Korvold's Conundrum

Commander / EDH Aristocrats BRG (Jund) Tokens

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Draw (7)

• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Thallid Soothsayer
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Land (36)

• 1x Bloodfell Caves
• 1x Bog Wreckage
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darigaaz's Caldera
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 6x Forest
• 1x Geothermal Crevice
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x Gruul Guildgate
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Peat Bog
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Rocky Tar Pit
• 1x Rugged Highlands
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Other (1)

• 1x Rhythm of the Wild

Ramp (14)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Leyline Prowler
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Mycosynth Wellspring
• 1x Paradise Druid
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Tinder Wall
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Recur (4)

• 1x Find / Finality
• 1x Golgari Findbroker
• 1x Haunted Crossroads
• 1x The Eldest Reborn

Removal (12)

• 1x Cindervines
• 1x Deathsprout
• 1x Decimate
• 1x Flametongue Kavu
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Goblin Cratermaker
• 1x Hull Breach
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Seal of Doom
• 1x The Eldest Reborn
• 1x Thorn Mammoth
• 1x Thrashing Brontodon

Sac Fodder (18)

• 1x Angrath, Captain of Chaos
• 1x Animation Module
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Blisterpod
• 1x Brass's Bounty
• 1x Catacomb Sifter
• 1x Deranged Hermit
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Eyeless Watcher
• 1x From Beyond
• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Mycosynth Wellspring
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Savvy Hunter
• 1x Scion Summoner
• 1x Sifter of Skulls
• 1x Ugin's Nexus

Sac Outlet (5)

• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Phyrexian Plaguelord
• 1x Thallid Soothsayer
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Synergy (7)

• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Judith, the Scourge Diva
• 1x Mayhem Devil
• 1x Poison-Tip Archer
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Vindictive Vampire

Commander (1)

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Introduction

Poor Korvold, Fae-Cursed King has a conundrum. He's cursed, but does he really want to be cured? Look how powerful he is! Who wants to give that up? I know that I don't. So instead, I'll turn that curse into a blessing, and give hell to everyone else.

Korvold's curse, obviously, is to sacrifice things. But as most of us know, in MTG, this is a good thing, right? Well, I think so (as long as I'm in control of it), so I'm going with it. I guess looking at it, Korvold's only conundrum is that he isn't a sac outlet himself (that would be broken).

Brainstorming the Brew

As I was upgrading the Brawl PreCon, it was very difficult for me to not go in the Lands-Matters direction. It would have been so easy, with lands being readily available to sacrifice and recur with the right setup. But, I've already got a Jund Lands deck, and pulled myself away from that option, and went a different route.

The nice thing about Korvold is that he doesn't care what we sacrifice, so long as we sacrifice something. There are plenty of ways to sacrifice creatures, so I've got some of those floating around in here. Enchantments like Seal of Doom sacrifice themselves, which Korvold likes, and so do Sagas once they're spent, so I'm running a few of those, as well. The new Food tokens we got in Throne of Eldraine are also nice pieces of sacrifice fodder, as are Treasure tokens. Another route I went with was using cards that create Eldrazi Spawn and Scion creature tokens. These are great in that they can be used as ramp when necessary, or just to sacrifice to some other ability to get a Korvold trigger. I seriously thought about really leaning full-bore into the Eldrazi token theme, but I'm leery as to how consistent it would make the deck. Leave-the-Battlefield effects are nice to have, but having permanents that actually sacrifice themselves have more value and synergy with Korvold, so I tried to include lots of permanents that can sacrifice themselves.

Synergy

Having card draw tacked onto the Commander is a huge advantage to any deck (ask anyone who plays Tatyova, Benthic Druid), and I want to abuse it as much as possible. Korvold's sac-and-draw effect has great synergy with cards like Haunted Crossroads (to peel creatures out of the graveyard) and Viscera Seer (great card selection).

I have not placed an order for anything added to this deck yet; the upgrades are what I had on hand. There are a few things I'd like to get for it, and those are in the maybeboard (some of which I do have, just couldn't get them squeezed in yet).

This deck is a work-in-progress, and hopefully it gets tighter soon. I started by adding to the Brawl deck, but have since moved to removing some of the PreCon cards, trying to optimize things a little bit.

Top Ranked	Achieved #60 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #50 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Aristocrats 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BRG (Jund) 4 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 21 - 0 Rares 34 - 0 Uncommons 25 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.17
Tokens	Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Food, Servo 1/1 C, Squirrel 1/1 G, Treasure, Zombie Army 0/0 B
Folders	Jund EDH Decks I Have, Korvold Brawl Deck Upgrade