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Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

Legendary Creature — Dragon Noble

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.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{2}{B}{R}{G}
Color identity
BGR
Rarity
mythic
Set
Year of the Dragon 2024
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#1898
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Korvold, Fae-Cursed King card art
Korvold, Fae-Cursed King enters as a 4/4 and immediately starts growing — every sacrifice makes him bigger and replaces itself with a card, turning any token fodder or expendable permanent into a draw engine stapled to a threat. The cost is that he wants a dedicated sacrifice infrastructure around him; without it, you're paying five mana for a vanilla beater. Shells running Animation Module or Hearthhull, the Worldseed give him exactly the free sacrifice triggers he needs to spiral out of control.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Hearthhull, the Worldseed

Hearthhull, the Worldseed

83.6% of decks · synergy 0.63

Hearthhull, the Worldseed runs Korvold, Fae-Cursed King because its token and land-sacrifice engine generates the constant stream of expendable permanents Korvold needs to keep growing and drawing — the two cards form a self-sustaining loop of resource generation.

02
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

79.2% of decks · synergy 0.59

Szarel, Genesis Shepherd pairs with Korvold, Fae-Cursed King because its graveyard recursion and creature sacrifice synergies feed Korvold's hunger for repeated sacrifice triggers while recouping the card advantage lost to the bin.

03
Prossh, Skyraider of Kher

Prossh, Skyraider of Kher

46.3% of decks · synergy 0.26

Prossh, Skyraider of Kher is the most natural fit — it enters producing six Kobold tokens purpose-built to be sacrificed, and Korvold, Fae-Cursed King turns each of those free tokens into a +1/+1 counter and a card draw.

04
Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire

Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire

40.1% of decks · synergy 0.20

Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire forces everyone to sacrifice permanents on attack, and Korvold, Fae-Cursed King converts each of those forced sacrifices into counters and cards, rewarding the chaos Vaevictis generates.

05
Vazi, Keen Negotiator

Vazi, Keen Negotiator

39.2% of decks · synergy 0.19

Vazi, Keen Negotiator distributes Treasure tokens to opponents, and Korvold, Fae-Cursed King can sacrifice its own Treasures to fuel draws and growth — the political gifting of Vazi translates into pure selfish advantage for Korvold.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Korvold, Fae-Cursed King is built to live — five-mana dragons are acceptable in a 40-life format, and the 100-card singleton environment gives him abundant sacrifice fodder across tokens, clues, Treasures, and lands. In Legacy and Vintage he's technically legal but has no real home; five mana is too slow and too fragile for those formats, and his payoff requires setup that those formats punish. Modern and Pioneer allow him, but again the mana investment puts him behind the curve against faster threats. Oathbreaker could theoretically support him in a sacrifice shell, but the smaller life totals and lower card counts shrink the window for his engine to take over.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

933 decks
Korvold, Fae-Cursed KingAnimation ModuleAshnod's Altar

Korvold, Fae-Cursed KingAnimation ModuleAshnod's Altar

Infinite card draw; Near-infinite colorless mana; Near-infinite ETB; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers; Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature

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Korvold, Fae-Cursed KingBlood PetMortuary

Korvold, Fae-Cursed KingBlood PetMortuary

Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite death triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count

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Price Context

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Pricing data for Korvold, Fae-Cursed King isn't available in this context, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market rates. Given his status as a high-demand Commander staple across multiple sacrifice shells, expect meaningful price variance between printings — the cheapest version is almost always the right buy unless you need a specific treatment.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.