Korvold, Gleeful Glutton
Legendary Creature — Dragon Noble
This spell costs 
less to cast for each card type among permanents you've sacrificed this turn.
Flying, trample, haste
Whenever Korvold deals combat damage to a player, put X +1/+1 counters on Korvold and draw X cards, where X is the number of permanent types among cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 8
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGR
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine Commander
- Price
- $0.43
- EDHREC rank
- #16412
Korvold, Gleeful Glutton lands as a massive, cost-reduced threat that draws cards and grows every time you sacrifice a permanent — the engine and the payoff in one body. The catch is that the cost reduction requires opponents to have creatures, so in low-creature metas the discount shrinks, but the sacrifice trigger never turns off.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Korvold, Gleeful Glutton lives — sacrifice synergies, token generators, and aristocrats shells are everywhere in the format, and a self-reducing dragon that replaces itself in hand every time you feed it fits naturally at the top of those curves. Legacy and Vintage are legal homes on paper, but neither format has meaningful appetite for a five-plus mana creature that doesn't immediately end the game or protect itself. Oathbreaker is legal but the 60-card singleton format rarely rewards this much mana investment. Play it in Commander; the other formats aren't the point.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.43 bulk tier
At $0.43, Korvold, Gleeful Glutton is bulk — cheap enough to slot into any sacrifice build without a second thought. Bulk mythics with strong Commander demand tend to tick up as supply tightens, but at this price the question isn't whether it's worth buying, it's whether you've already picked one up.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.