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Price
€498.41of €500.00
Overall win rate
22%51 wins in 234 scored games
Games
260 (26)played in 26 tournaments, 26 not scored (time limit)
Rank
35in the rankings up to €500 · Elo 1486 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 36 lands, 14 of them basic
Game Changer
3of at most 3 allowed
Combos
7complete 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 €500 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 (12)

Sorceries (5)

Artifacts (7)

Enchantments (3)

Lands (36)

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

Combos in the deck (7)

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 + … → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    4 versions, each with one of: Academy Manufactor · Ashnod's Altar · Peregrin Took · Viscera Seer
  • Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar + Gravecrawler + … → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers
    3 versions, each with one of: Reassembling Skeleton · Viscera Seer
  • 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
  • Mahadi, Emporium Master + Revel in Riches + … → Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
    2 versions, each with one of: Ashnod's Altar · Viscera Seer
  • Rhythm of the Wild + … → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite colorless mana
    2 versions, each with one of: Ashnod's Altar · Viscera Seer
  • Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers

Commander Spellbook lists 22 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

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  • 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
  • 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
  • Ashnod's Altar + Rhythm of the Wild → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite colorless mana
  • Viscera Seer + Rhythm of the Wild → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers

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
  • Orcish Lumberjack: AI can't play it
  • Rhythm of the Wild: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Sylvan Safekeeper: AI can't play it
  • Tinder Wall: AI can't play it
  • Viscera Seer: AI can't play it
  • Ziatora's Proving Ground: adjusted to make room for another replacement
Played instead in the tournament
  • Arid Mesa: replacement
  • Marionette Apprentice: replacement
  • Nature's Lore: replacement
  • Noxious Revival: replacement
  • Stimulus Package: replacement
  • Swiftfoot Boots: replacement
  • Treasure Vault: replacement
  • Witherbloom Apprentice: test
  • Woe Strider: replacement

What the games show

From 234 analysed games in 26 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 – 88% of the damage to opponents is combat damage

Strengths

  • Often wins by combo: in 21 of 51 wins all pieces of a combo were in play indication

Weaknesses

  • Little pressure: only avg 20 damage to opponents per game (all-deck avg: 29) logged (234 games)
  • Rarely eliminates opponents: 0.44 per game on average (all-deck avg: 0.62) logged (234 games)
  • Depends on its commander: only 0% wins without it, 23% with it indication (14 games without, 220 with commander)
  • Often eliminated first: in 32% of games (all-deck avg: 25%) logged (75 of 234 games)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 234 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Korvold, Fae-Cursed King avg 10.7hit in 138 of 234 games
  2. Mayhem Devil avg 2.4hit in 45 of 234 games
  3. Smaug, Wicked Worm avg 1.4hit in 34 of 234 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 18.1hit in 138 of 234 games
  2. Mayhem Devil avg 12.6hit in 45 of 234 games
  3. Smaug, Wicked Worm avg 9.4hit in 34 of 234 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

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

  1. Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 63×234 games in deck
  2. Mayhem Devil 16×234 games in deck
  3. Smaug, Wicked Worm 5×224 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

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

  1. Culling Ritual 81×avg 0.3 per game · 234 games in deck
  2. Assassin's Trophy 38×avg 0.2 per game · 234 games in deck
  3. Abrupt Decay 37×avg 0.2 per game · 234 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 18% of 1426 attackers blocked in total, 16% of those by flyers or reach

  1. Zombie Druid Token 5×blocked in 3 games
  2. Arcades, the Strategist 4×blocked in 3 games
  3. Bello, Bard of the Brambles 4×blocked in 3 games

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 234 games
  2. Elvish Spirit Guide 8%cast in 18 of 234 games
  3. Simian Spirit Guide 9%cast in 20 of 234 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 51 wins came

  • by turn 70%
  • turns 8–927%
  • turns 10–1141%
  • turns 12–1324%
  • turn 14+8%

Combos in play logged Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar + Reassembling Skeleton: all pieces cast in 7 games, 3 won · Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Pitiless Plunderer: all pieces cast in 14 games, 8 won · Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Blood Artist: all pieces cast in 7 games, 5 won · Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Zulaport Cutthroat: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 2.25

1
0
24
1
12
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
12
Sorceries
5
Artifacts
7
Enchantments
3
Lands
36

Most expensive cards

Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
€33.09
Lotus Petal
€25.96
Misty Rainforest
€25.10
Marsh Flats
€24.98
Verdant Catacombs
€24.21
Delighted Halfling
€20.71
Polluted Delta
€19.12
Worldly Tutor
€18.20

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 clear difference Awakening Zone instead of Nature's Lore · win rate 27% with, 19% without (75 / 159 games) · from an earlier version, not in the deck now
  • no clear difference Rhythm of the Wild instead of Nature's Rhythm · win rate 18% with, 24% without (94 / 140 games)
  • no clear difference Witherbloom Apprentice instead of Victimize · win rate 19% with, 23% without (73 / 161 games) · from an earlier version, not in the deck now
  • no clear difference Victimize instead of Marionette Apprentice · win rate 21% with, 22% without (145 / 89 games) · from an earlier version, not in the deck now

9 more tested cards are still collecting games.

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Placement in every tournament

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

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Best place 3 · average place 34.3 · 1× top 3 · 1× top 10 out of 26 tournaments

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