Korvold, Fae-Cursed King card art

Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

Legendary Creature — Dragon Noble MV 5

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What it does

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.

Combos with Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • The Locust God Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    • Near-infinite colorless mana
    • Near-infinite death triggers
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Mortuary Wild Cantor Infinite
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Goldspan Dragon Crown of Flames Infinite
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite storm count
    • Near-infinitely large creature
    • Near-infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Nadir Kraken Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinitely large creature
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    • Near-infinite death triggers
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Nadir Kraken Phyrexian Altar Infinite
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinitely large creature
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    • Near-infinite death triggers
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Nadir Kraken Thermopod Infinite
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    • Near-infinite death triggers
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Mortuary Reckless Barbarian Infinite
    • Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Animation Module Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite card draw
    • Near-infinite colorless mana
    • Near-infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Near-infinite creature LTB
    • Near-infinite death triggers
    • Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Near-infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2019-10-04

    If you sacrifice a permanent as part of a spell or activated ability's cost, Korvold's last ability will resolve before that spell or ability.

  • 2019-10-04

    If you sacrifice Korvold, its last ability triggers. You won't put a +1/+1 counter on anything, but you'll draw a card.

  • 2019-10-04

    A legendary permanent that is put into a graveyard because of the "legend rule" isn't sacrificed.

  • 2019-10-04

    Korvold's last ability is a triggered ability, not an activated ability. It doesn't allow you to sacrifice a permanent whenever you want; rather, you need some other way of sacrificing permanents, such as Korvold's first triggered ability.

  • 2019-10-04

    If you somehow control no other permanents, you can attack with Korvold. You won't sacrifice anything, and there's no penalty for being unable to do so.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

As a commander

Decks built with Korvold, Fae-Cursed King in the command zone.

Decks led 1
Games played 1
Wins 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Korvold, Fae-Cursed King, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Hearthhull, the Worldseed 2 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Jund 2 decks

Every version of Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

7 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

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Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.