“Be careful, dear. Some people deserve their curses.”

~

Not all fairytales have happy endings— you usually just read about the ones that do. Bloodthirsty witches, ravenous trolls, and poison apples pose a very real and everyday danger to the charmed residents of Eldraine. The reigning nobility of the courts can be ruthless in their own right, but add a dash of fae mischief and you have a recipe for monarchical catastrophe. The story of Korvold is a cautionary tale of overindulgence that tells of a tyrant cursed by the fae and turned into an insatiable fire-breathing dragon at a dinner fit for a king. We're having a banquet of our own, and your opponents are invited. They're on the menu, after all.

Eat Like a King:

  1. Embrace your inner villain and gobble up your own resources to set the stage for Korvold, Gleeful Glutton. Your whole deck is expendable and most cards either benefit from or enable sacrificing your permanents, and certain cards like Taste of Death, Mad Ratter, and Gluttonous Troll can quickly cook up food and other tokens so you don’t always need to cannibalize your other permanents. Cards like Decadent Dragon can also set aside treasure for you to use, which will help casting spells and bringing out your creatures.

  2. Food tokens exist as a sort of economy within the deck. Many cards like Curious Pair, Savvy Hunter, and Giant Opportunity are quick to efficiently put food on the table (literally!) which can then be spent to activate various effects. Greta, Sweettooth Scourge, Gilded Goose, and Feasting Troll King are perhaps the best creatures to put your food towards. Other cards like Trail of Crumbs and Witch of the Moors can benefit passively from food being sacrificed. Stockpiling food can be greatly beneficial with Night of the Sweets' Revenge on the field, which lets you tap food for extra mana to bring out your biggest threats quicker (as well as providing a crushing, game-ending blow late into the game).

  3. Rats (both rats that can block and others that cannot) are the second most common token-type that the deck churns out and, like food, exist primarily to be sacrificed. they are ideal targets to be sacrificed with cards like Ayara, First of Locthwain, Witch's Cauldron, and Korvold, Fae-Cursed King. Mad Ratter is a combo piece that works with these aforementioned cards, who can supply endless swarm of rats whenever another is sacrificed. Experimental Confectioner converts food into rats, and Witch's Oven (which can sacrifice your creatures at instant speed, notable for if it's going to die in combat, etc. anyway) converts rats into food.

  4. Korvold requires a lot of maintenance— both in bringing out and in supporting him once he’s made it onto the battlefield. The most efficient ways of casting him are by sacrificing your food creatures (Gingerbrute, Tough Cookie, or Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender) with effects that don’t cost additional mana like those of Gilded Goose or Witch's Oven (which reduces his cost by 2, and also adds an additional mana in the case of Gilded Goose) or by using treasure (which reduces his cost by 1 and adds an additional mana when used). The food creatures are also ideal fodder to end up in the graveyard to power up Korvold as they count as both artifacts and creatures. Enchantments and non-token artifacts can be sent to the graveyard with cards with the “Bargain” mechanic like Agatha's Champion, and Grabby Giant can get lands into the graveyard in addition to providing treasure earlier in the game to spend on casting Korvold.

  5. Deviously dictate how the other players play and meddle in group affairs: force opponents to fight each other using Cruel Entertainment or by fighting over being the Monarch (introduced into the game by Court of Bounty and Court of Ambition), with each act playing your opponents against each other instead of you. Deflecting Swat and Witchstalker Frenzy are the deck’s only protections for Korvold if he’s targeted by a spell or fatally blocked in combat— and each in the form of a nasty counterattack.


  1. Faraway Fiction- A GWU Commander deck with Chulane focused on stories and the adventures.
  2. Gilded Gluttony- A BRG Commander deck with Korvold focused on fairytale villains and the food.
  3. Kingdom Come- A RWU Commander deck with King Kenrtith focused on knights and diplomacy.
  4. Enchanted Uprising- A WUB Commander deck with Alela focused on faeries and enchantments.

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95% Casual

Competitive

Date added 4 years
Last updated 5 months
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

4 - 0 Mythic Rares

26 - 0 Rares

17 - 0 Uncommons

22 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.38
Tokens Food, Giant 7/7 G, Rat 1/1 B, Rat 1/1 B w/ Can't Block, Monarch Emblem, Treasure
Folders Favorites, Eldraine EDH, CouldBuild
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