Deck Strategies
Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
Korvold's deck focuses on sacrificing permanents to draw cards and grow stronger, generating treasures to ramp mana and deploying powerful value creatures to maintain board control and incremental advantage. The deck aims to out-value opponents through attrition and overwhelming board presence.
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
K'rrik exploits the ability to pay life instead of black mana to rapidly cast spells and pump creatures, particularly leveraging Blood Tracker to accumulate counters and drain opponents. The deck aggressively uses life as a resource to create early pressure and snowball into a lethal board state.
Gameplay Insights
- 1
Using Jeweled Lotus to cast K'rrik on turn one enabled an explosive start with significant mana acceleration.
- 2
Korvold maximized value by repeatedly sacrificing treasures and tokens to draw cards and generate mana through synergistic artifacts and creatures.
- 3
K'rrik's strategy of paying life to pump Blood Tracker created a growing threat that pressured Korvold's life total and board state.
- 4
Korvold's reliance on flyers like Goldspan Dragon was key for defense but ultimately insufficient against K'rrik's relentless ground pressure.
- 5
Aggressive life payment and counters on Blood Tracker combined with efficient attacks proved decisive in securing K'rrik's victory.
Notable Cards
Jeweled Lotus
Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
Goldspan Dragon
Delighted Halfling
Aggravated Assault
Chatterfang, Squirrel General
Fecundity
Ashnod's Altar
Dark Ritual
Vampiric Tutor
Summary
The game began with K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth leveraging his ability to pay life instead of mana, allowing an explosive start that included a turn one deployment of K'rrik himself by sacrificing a Jeweled Lotus and using Dark Ritual to ramp into a Blood Tracker. Korvold, Fae-Cursed King developed his board more methodically, fetching key lands like Overgrown Tomb and deploying value engines such as Goldspan Dragon and Delighted Halfling to generate treasures and card advantage. Korvold also used aggressive sacrifice synergies with cards like Fecundity and Altar to maximize mana and draw power, fueling his board presence and damage output. Throughout the midgame, K'rrik maintained pressure by pumping his Blood Tracker with life payments and repeatedly attacking, forcing Korvold to block defensively. Korvold tried to stabilize with flying threats like Goldspan Dragon and Chatterfang for token generation, but K'rrik's relentless life payment combos and incremental counters on Blood Tracker kept the pressure high. The game culminated when Korvold, lacking sufficient flyers to block, succumbed to a decisive Blood Tracker attack, demonstrating K'rrik's ability to overwhelm through life payment synergy and incremental board growth leading to victory.
