CommanderTestLabor DE
Price
€399.50of €400.00
Overall win rate
22%9 wins in 40 scored games
Games
40played in 4 tournaments
Rank
29in the rankings up to €400 · Elo 1496 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 36 lands, 14 of them basic
Game Changer
3of at most 3 allowed
Combos
6complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

AI note: the Forge AI can't play 7 cards of this deck (replaced with similar cards in the Forge games) and plays 6 more only partially well. This result is therefore somewhat less meaningful. Affected cards

At most €400 including the commander. If prices rise above that, the shopping list is rebuilt automatically.

grey: role in the deckGame Changer counts for the bracketCombo part of a comboAI can't play replaced in tournamentsAI limited played weakly by the AI

Commander (1)

Creatures (36)

Instants (13)

Sorceries (6)

Artifacts (6)

Enchantments (2)

Lands (36)

Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
Card image: © Wizards of the Coast, via Scryfall

Combos in the deck (6)

Detected from the decklist (Commander Spellbook): theoretically possible, see Spellbook for requirements. Whether a combo actually came together in games is shown above under “What the games show”.

  • Warren Soultrader + … → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    8 versions, each with one of: Chatterfang, Squirrel General · Gravecrawler · Blood Artist · Zulaport Cutthroat · Academy Manufactor · Peregrin Took and 1 more
  • Pitiless Plunderer + Cauldron Familiar + Academy Manufactor + … → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    5 versions, each with one of: Ashnod's Altar · Peregrin Took · Viscera Seer · Woe Strider
  • Pitiless Plunderer + Gravecrawler + … → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers
    4 versions, each with one of: Ashnod's Altar · Reassembling Skeleton · Viscera Seer · Woe Strider
  • Mahadi, Emporium Master + Revel in Riches + … → Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
    3 versions, each with one of: Ashnod's Altar · Viscera Seer · Woe Strider
  • Warren Soultrader + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + … → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    2 versions, each with one of: Blood Artist · Zulaport Cutthroat
  • Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers

Commander Spellbook lists 23 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

Show all 23 entries
  • Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar + Reassembling Skeleton → Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Blood Artist → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Zulaport Cutthroat → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Warren Soultrader + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Blood Artist → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Pitiless Plunderer + Zulaport Cutthroat + Reassembling Skeleton → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Viscera Seer → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Zulaport Cutthroat + Chatterfang, Squirrel General → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Blood Artist + Chatterfang, Squirrel General → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Warren Soultrader + Academy Manufactor → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Warren Soultrader + Peregrin Took → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Cauldron Familiar + Academy Manufactor → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Cauldron Familiar + Peregrin Took → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Academy Manufactor + Pitiless Plunderer + Cauldron Familiar + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Woe Strider → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Peregrin Took + Cauldron Familiar + Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Mahadi, Emporium Master + Revel in Riches + Ashnod's Altar → Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
  • Academy Manufactor + Pitiless Plunderer + Cauldron Familiar + Viscera Seer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Peregrin Took + Cauldron Familiar + Pitiless Plunderer + Viscera Seer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Mahadi, Emporium Master + Revel in Riches + Viscera Seer → Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
  • Academy Manufactor + Pitiless Plunderer + Cauldron Familiar + Woe Strider → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Mahadi, Emporium Master + Revel in Riches + Woe Strider → Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep

Adjusted for the Forge AI

The list above is the best tested version, the way you would play it in real games. The Forge AI can't play a few cards – they were replaced in the tournament (the deck builder also rearranges other slots within the budget). The win rate comes from games with these replacements; the original cards themselves were not tested by the AI.

In the list (original cards)
  • Culling the Weak: AI can't play it
  • Diabolic Intent: AI can't play it
  • Emergence Zone: AI can't play it
  • Nature's Lore: swapped for a test
  • Orcish Lumberjack: AI can't play it
  • Revel in Riches: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Sylvan Safekeeper: AI can't play it
  • Tinder Wall: AI can't play it
  • Undergrowth Stadium: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Viscera Seer: AI can't play it
Played instead in the tournament
  • Bastion of Remembrance: replacement
  • Cinder Glade: replacement
  • Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer: replacement
  • Rhythm of the Wild: replacement
  • Six: replacement
  • Springbloom Druid: test
  • Swiftfoot Boots: replacement
  • Treasure Vault: replacement
  • Victimize: replacement
  • Witherbloom Apprentice: replacement

What the games show

From 40 analysed games in 4 tournaments (tournament lists as played by Forge). Games that hit the time limit don't count, just like in the rankings. Values in brackets: average of all decks in the same price class. “logged”: recorded in the game log. “indication”: recurring pattern, but no proof of cause and effect.

Play style: wins through combat – 91% of the damage to opponents is combat damage

Strengths

  • Wins fast: wins on average already on its 11th own turn (all-deck avg: 12th) logged (9 wins)
  • Often wins by combo: in 3 of 9 wins all pieces of a combo were in play indication

Weaknesses

  • Mana problems: fewer than 3 lands after its 3rd own turn in 18% of games (all-deck avg: 10%), then only 0% wins logged (7 of 40 games)
  • Little pressure: only avg 23 damage to opponents per game (all-deck avg: 28) logged (40 games)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 40 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Korvold, Fae-Cursed King avg 13.7hit in 28 of 40 games
  2. Juri, Master of the Revue avg 1.9hit in 6 of 40 games
  3. Mayhem Devil avg 1.7hit in 9 of 40 games

Damage when used when it hits

Total damage ÷ games in which the card dealt damage – its strength when used

  1. Korvold, Fae-Cursed King avg 19.6hit in 28 of 40 games
  2. Juri, Master of the Revue avg 12.5hit in 6 of 40 games
  3. Goldspan Dragon avg 11.0hit in 5 of 40 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

Cards that most often knocked an opposing commander out of the game

  1. Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 12×40 games in deck
  2. Mayhem Devil 2×40 games in deck
  3. Peregrin Took 2×40 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

Opposing cards destroyed, exiled, bounced or countered when this card resolved (tokens excluded)

  1. Assassin's Trophy 11×avg 0.3 per game · 40 games in deck
  2. Abrupt Decay 7×avg 0.2 per game · 40 games in deck
  3. Red Elemental Blast 6×avg 0.1 per game · 40 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 17% of 284 attackers blocked in total, 12% of those by flyers or reach

Not enough blocks logged yet.

Rarely cast candidates to cut

Cards in this list that were cast least often in their games – often too expensive or too slow (lands excluded)

  1. Pyroblast 0%cast in 0 of 40 games
  2. Culling Ritual 5%cast in 2 of 40 games
  3. Veil of Summer 5%cast in 2 of 40 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 9 wins came

  • by turn 70%
  • turns 8–922%
  • turns 10–1133%
  • turns 12–1344%
  • turn 14+0%

Combos in play logged Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar + Reassembling Skeleton: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Pitiless Plunderer: all pieces cast in 3 games, 0 won · Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Blood Artist: all pieces cast in 1 games, 0 won · Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Zulaport Cutthroat: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 2.29

1
0
22
1
14
2
18
3
4
4
3
5
6
1
7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
24 / 20
Card draw
6 / 5
Removal
7 / 6
Board wipe
2 / 2
Protection
3 / 3
Strategy
21 cards no target

Count / target from the EDHREC average deck (the line), red means clearly below. Strategy: the remaining cards without one of these roles, such as the creatures and effects the deck is built around. 63 non-land cards in total.

Card types

Creatures
36
Instants
13
Sorceries
6
Artifacts
6
Enchantments
2
Lands
36

Most expensive cards

Lotus Petal
€24.74
Verdant Catacombs
€24.12
Delighted Halfling
€20.43
Polluted Delta
€18.45
Worldly Tutor
€17.50
Bloodstained Mire
€16.96
Wooded Foothills
€16.85
Warren Soultrader
€15.00

What the program has learned

Each tournament the deck tests one card. A verdict needs at least 40 games with and without the card. Since the deck is rebuilt every tournament with current prices and data, tested cards can drop out again later.

No swap has enough games for a verdict yet.

3 more tested cards are still collecting games.

Shopping list for Cardmarket

Copy the list, create a new list under “Wants” on Cardmarket and paste it.

Total €399.50 Cardmarket average as of Oct 29, 2026

Open Cardmarket Wants

Prices without shipping. Individual cards may have become cheaper or more expensive on Cardmarket.

Placement in every tournament

Oldest on the left. Green: top 3, blue: top 10.

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Best place 10 · average place 37.2 · 0× top 3 · 1× top 10 out of 4 tournaments

Played by the Forge AI, four players per game. An average deck wins 25%. How are decks tested?