In high-power Commander, card draw and mana generation are the two pillars of victory. On Moxfield’s public deckbuilding charts, no commander unites these pillars more terrifyingly than Korvold, Fae-Cursed King.
Operating in the aggressive Jund color identity, Korvold turns the act of sacrificing your own permanents into a game-ending resource engine. Whether you are cracking fetch lands, sacrificing creatures to draw cards, or spending Treasure tokens, Korvold triggers to draw you a card and grow larger with +1/+1 counters. This transforms standard value plays into explosive storm-like turns where you draw your entire library, generate infinite mana, and eliminate the table in a single combat step.
Here is the strategic operational blueprint of Moxfield’s premier Korvold list, detailing how to reign as the undisputed tyrant of the sacrifice archetype.
1. Core Mechanics & Strategic Phases
Commanding Korvold requires a steady balance of cheap, sacrifice-friendly fodder, instant-speed acceleration, and precise timing.
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Early Game (Turns 1–2): Deploy fast mana dorks and cheap value-generating permanents. Prioritize early ramp like Ignoble Hierarch and exploration engines to secure your land drops.
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Mid Game (Turns 3–4): Cast Korvold, Fae-Cursed King. Ensure you have at least one expendable permanent (like a fetch land or a Treasure token) ready to sacrifice to his enter-the-battlefield trigger so you immediately get your investment back in card draw.
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Late Game (Turns 4+): Initiate your storm loop. Sacrifice mass amounts of tokens or creatures to draw your key combo pieces, using blood artists and drain effects to systematically drain the table.
2. Moxfield Highlights: The Sacrificial Engines
The highest-rated community lists on Moxfield optimize Korvold by focusing on engines that trigger repeatedly from sacrifices alongside modern combo lines.
Warren Soultrader / Mayhem Devil
The ultimate modern Goblins and Devils. Warren Soultrader allows you to pay 1 life and sacrifice a creature to generate a Treasure. Under Korvold, this draws you a card, nets you mana, and puts a counter on your commander. Mayhem Devil capitalizes on this engine by pinging any target for 1 damage whenever any player sacrifices a permanent, letting you clear the board or melt life totals instantly.
Pitiless Plunderer / Chatterfang, Squirrel General
The premier token generator loop. Pitiless Plunderer creates a Treasure token whenever another creature you control dies. Combined with Chatterfang, sacrificing a creature generates both a Treasure and a 1/1 Squirrel token. This gives you endless fodder to continue sacrificing, drawing cards with Korvold, and generating infinite mana.
Food Chain / Squee, the Immortal
A classic and highly resilient Grixis/Jund combo. Exiling Squee to Food Chain generates one extra mana of any color, and since Squee can be cast directly from exile, you can repeat this process infinitely to generate infinite creature mana. Casting and sacrificing Korvold repeatedly with this mana allows you to draw your entire deck and find your instant-speed win conditions.
Scapeshift
The ultimate land-sacrifice spell. Resolving Scapeshift allows you to sacrifice any number of lands to search for the same number of lands. This triggers Korvold for every single land sacrificed, drawing you a massive grip of cards while putting powerful utility lands like Field of the Dead directly onto the battlefield.
3. Copy & Paste Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 100-Card Decklist
Use the text box below to copy the complete highly-optimized community list. It contains exactly 1 Commander and 99 mainboard cards, calibrated perfectly for an error-free import into Moxfield.
1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
1 Animate Dead
1 Arcane Signet
1 Arid Mesa
1 Assassin's Trophy
1 Badlands
1 Bayou
1 Birthing Pod
1 Blood Artist
1 Blood Crypt
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Bootleggers' Stash
1 Cinder Glade
1 City of Brass
1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
1 Chthonian Nightmare
1 Command Tower
1 Crop Rotation
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Dark Ritual
1 Dauthi Voidwalker
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Decimate
1 Deflecting Swat
1 Delighted Halfling
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Diabolic Intent
1 Eldritch Evolution
1 Eternal Witness
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Exploration
1 Fabled Passage
1 Farseek
1 Feign Death
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Food Chain
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Gamble
1 Gaze of Granite
1 Goblin Bombardment
1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
1 Ignoble Hierarch
1 Imperial Seal
1 Luxury Suite
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Lotus Cobra
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Confluence
1 Marionette Apprentice
1 Marsh Flats
1 Mayhem Devil
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Nature's Lore
1 Necropotence
1 Noxious Revival
1 Orcish Bowmasters
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plaguecrafter
1 Pitiless Plunderer
1 Plaza of Heroes
1 Polluted Delta
1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
1 Ramunap Excavator
1 Reactive Shielding
1 Reanimate
1 Red Blast
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Rhythm of the Wild
1 Stomping Ground
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Scapeshift
1 Scute Swarm
1 Sol Ring
1 Spire Garden
1 Squee, the Immortal
1 Sylvan Library
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
1 Taiga
1 Talisman of Impulse
1 Talisman of Indulgence
1 Talisman of Resilience
1 Tireless Provisioner
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Underworld Breach
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Veil of Summer
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Viscera Seer
1 Warren Soultrader
1 Windswept Heath
1 Woe Strider
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Worldly Tutor
1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
1 Zulaport Cutthroat
2 Forest
1 Mountain
1 Swamp
Summary: Rule the Savage Lands
Moxfield’s top deck builders prioritize Korvold, Fae-Cursed King because he turns standard game actions into hyper-efficient resource production. By converting creature deaths, cracked fetch lands, and Treasures into raw card draw, you quickly scale beyond the table’s ability to respond. Copy the flawless 100-card decklist above, fuel the dragon’s hunger, and incinerate your next Commander pod.
