Birds out command sphere in just makes me sad lol

Frankly, I'm shocked that the average decklist doesn't contain Rancor. That may be the best card in my deck. One mana, sac and it returns, plus sometimes you just really need trample to punch through with a massive Korvold. I also run Fortitude, which offers regeneration, a sac outlet, and something that comes back when it is sacced.

Didn't see if this was in the average deck, but Brass's Bounty is an amazing card with Korvold. It essentially replaces its casting cost and draws you so a ton of cards. Everytime I play it, I'm always impressed with the work it does!

When you guys mentioned Ugin's Nexus a couple of months ago in a podcast I immediately went out and bought one for Korvold and it was such a good upgrade. Also the Korvold's Bed and Breakfast joke got me

"Where he eats the bed for breakfast" Alright Joey, I see you. That was clean. Love it. NOW GIVE ME VOLRATH THE SHAPESTEALER DANG IT

This is the best EDH deckbuilding video series, and it's not close!

I really enjoy this upping the average series :) thanks Joey

Birds of paradise should just be replaced with 'Gilded Goose' either use the goose as a dork to ramp into Korvold, or if he's dead and you have an extra 2 mana you can just make permanents (Food Tokens). A lot of food generators are great. Not too far from treasure tokens in some cases.

12:25 This man has a way with words, i love it!

One of my favorite adds in my Korvold deck was dragonlair spider. Get a 1/1 insect whenever an opponent casts a spell? Thaaaank you

Yess! Joey this is exactly what I wanted. I love this

As a solid replacement for Rythm, Fires of Yavimiya works. Creatures get haste, and you can sac it to pump up Korvold for some extra damage

Another great video! Would love to see an upping the average video on Prossh at some point. Keep it up!

That FLAVOUR in this episode was off the charts

Love this series, hope you can do some more obscure commanders in the future

The one card I don't see on the list that I find to be great is Treacherous Blessing. 3 mana to draw 3 cards and then just sacrifice it to Korvold asap to avoid any downside, makes it a great add to Korvold.

I know it's a fringe commander, but I would love to see Krav the Unredeemed and Regna, the Redeemer partner commanders done

this was a highly entertaining video, thanks for all the extra flavor =P

The Karn from war of the spark is a nice stax effect to slow your opponents while also allowing you to take multiple extra turns with Ugin's Nexus

Every time I play korvold he becomes a 20/20 and then I use selvala to generate a ton of mana before playing momentous fall on him to draw a ton of cards. He’s hilariously good. I also agree about the ramp thing. He’s weirdly good at using mana while making a ton of it

Really liked the way u change the deck, I'm playing and tunning my Korvold deck since release and started with the Brawl precon. My build now is alot more combo based but I think that this decklist you made is a great place to start and for people that don't want to go the combo route as well. About some of the changes I like Rhythm of the Wild in my Korvold deck because I do have a Melira + Murderous Redcap/Putrid Goblin as wincon so it can protect my creatures from counterspell and be a combo piece if I don't have Melira out. The reason Squee is on the list is Food Chain combo, but without Food Chain there is no reason to run him I like to play with dorks because they are a fast way to ramp into Korvold and they trigger the Aristocrats effects Growth Spasm is ok but I think Springbloom Druid is way better at 3 CMC, if we have Korvold out we can draw a card with the ETB and have a body to sacrifice

you made korvold seem really fun! Fun, positive view. If only my playgroup felt the same lol

Thanks man! Priest & zone totally made my list and they are too slow. As soon as you said it I was like “ohhhh. That’s why this deck isn’t putting up W’s!”

I have a request, Queen Marchesa as i think the deck could be interesting and the deck needs some more win cons

@9:50 That's not why squee is in the average list. It's for food chain.

i really like a lot of mana dorks in my korvold list, they accelerate to korvold and the can be eaten up accelerating the draw.

I was waiting for this one.

I absolutely love bloodghast, animation module, and skull clamp in this deck. Working together or alone all these cards generate huge value.

Now, my prayers to the Gods of Commander have been answered. haha

Yes Khalini garden is a must, had one laying around from the cat precon

Just picked up Korvold, if I had the available funds what should I keep that you cut? really love this vids helps me out so much!

Some commanders I’d love for you to feature are Ruric Thar, Ghired, and Kumena.

please do alela next.. been wondering how to build her..

The only commander I'm willing to run in CEDH that doesn't have blue.... If they stop you from going the turbo ad nasueam route, you just pivot to treasure storm, draw cards and make Mana till you find a combo. Usually one person gets commander damaged out in the process. Yummy And for dessert.... Witherbloom apprentice/Chain smog Dualcaster/Twinflame Underworld breach

I'd love to see an ur-dragon upping the average

Now I have to wait for atraxxa, chulane decktech. Keep up the good work

Vicious Shadows does work in a Korvold deck.

nice vid cool dude

One of my favorite cards for Korvold is Need for Speed

Scarab God next please!

Great deck

Commander Legends Commander's Sphere ! So exited for more spoilers!

I knew he was gonna add Ugins Nexus, I would add it to my korvold deck too if there was someone selling in my area

Anger is a nice creature to add, you can sacrifice him to Korvold the turn you bring him out and immediately give Korvold haste.

And for the next hungry, hungry boi you should do Ghave, Guru of Spores.

Instead of far haven go with springbloom druid. Early it’s as good late it adds a sac trigger. And for all those complaining he cut the fetches perhaps think of it as. If you have it put it in! If you don’t? Go with these instead of dropping a lot of money on them.

I would have added an addendum - Squee Dockside and Temur Sabertooth are for the very common food chains

Interesting. I made a list based on the Commanders Brew Jund Sacrifice Surprise list but I'm sure there's some really cool additions or changes here, too.

I really want to build a Volrath the Shapestealer deck but I dont know where to go with it exactly. Maybe you could help?

scapeshift and ashnod's altar are pricey but absolutely insane in korvold. if you run fetches, even the slow ones or strip mine type effects, you can tutor up all of those and draw like 12 cards!

Can you please do an upping the average on Reyhan and Ishai ?

I bought a Chandra's Ignition for my Feather deck and now I'm annoyed at myself for not thinking of also putting it in Korvold.

I am building a Treasure Deck around Korvold, its going awesome, just need 8 more cards and then I am finished :)

Can you please do this with Chulane, every deck has it just be mana dorks and weenies into thassa's or lab manaiac for win it seems, I'd want something with more, stopping power on the board, and feels less, single player on my board.

I literally just took apart Korvold and am gonna build a Meren Protean Hulk combo deck

I keep deathsprout just for the fact that it reads kill a creature draw a card and put a counter on hungry boy (just eat the land it brings in)

Can we get an updated list to this one, including the newest sets??

This was awesome. However hear me out, what about purphoros. Any token or creatures coming in deal 2 damage to all opponents. Plus he’s kinda hard to get rid of without the right removal

What about the card Tempt with Vengeance I was shocked I didnt see it in your list.

Replacing Rites of Consumption with Essence Harvest and Ozolith with Ugin's Nexus. Thanks!

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET A SPECIAL EDITION WHERE MATT DOES A NICE GUY UPPING THE AVERAGE?

I think yennet cryptic sovereign would be a fun upping the average

Joey please help! I built a Animar morph deck and a moment before I orded it, I accidentally deleted the decklist! I would be really happy if did one about animar morph(:

My korvold Deck is gonna be korvold lands so some of my cuts are different then yours, but I do like some of your ideas.

Is there a four color sacrifice commander where Korvold and Thraximundar benefit?

How about a Purphorose, Bronze Blooded upping the average Joey?

Now what to cut for Betrothed of Fire.

Dude rhythm of the wild keep persist is overpowered lol

Thoughts on Veteran Explorer?

The thing about korvold, is that if you dont have enough creatures when you start sacrificing you just draw a bunch of cards. You need to build aristocratzy to really take advantage of korvold.

I still don’t really see enough win cons here...... huge card advantage is great but I’m looking at ways to win with them....

Swamp soup and mountain macaroni for dinner kids

Can I get that recipe for mountain mac?

Hard disagree with cut on Awakening Zone, it's consistently been an all-star or ate premium removal that could have otherwise went at Korvold. Completely agree with Crux of Fate and Chandra's Ignition adds. Other suggestions - 1) more graveyard hate in the form of Tormod's Crypt or Soul-Guide Lantern. 2) Chandra, Acolyte of Flame can give you two free tokens that sac themselves AND let you recur your cheap spells from the yard 3) Field of the Dead, if you can swing the price and are playing more into the lands theme

Ive never seen that deck building program before, how do I get it?

Just built korvild with all of the food token cards. Still crazy strong. Better thematic wins

Anyone got a cheaper version of this deck?

omg yes finally

Not gonna lie, now that Riku is semi-cheap again(Double Masters is a GEM for singleton buys, I'd actually enjoy an episode on him. I've built tons of iterations over the years, and while mine is less budget friendly than yours would be, I still love seeing what people can do on a budget with any commander, because sometimes those hidden gems pop up

Totally agree on Chaos Warp, it's such great removal in red decks not running white, and it's super fun in EDH! Another interesting card for Korvold could be Crack the Earth.

well I think squee is in there because food chain too

Make one on melek please

Rhythm of the wild is for an infinite combo, same with squee

I need kelsien, please!

WHIP OF EREBOS

nice videos, pls Estrid Upping the Average

Okay, don't kill me, but... I don't think this deck needs Skullclamp. I prefer some more value creatures and sac outlets and less of the "trigger on sacrifice", Korvold does that already. Yawgmoth is great although it may be quite expensive by now, but what about Greater Gargadon? Then, having a sac outlet, Rhythm of the wild goes infinite with persist creatures, like Murderous Redcap or Puppeteer Clique, which aren't bad at all in the deck. And speaking of persist... Korvold will never have a -1/-1 counter on it, so... Cauldron of Souls?

Dockside was $33 when this was published... wow....

Endless swarm though.....

I don't understand this series. You guys state you're taking a commander's average deck list and make some quick swaps to take it from a good start to a grate start, but then you yank really good cards based solely on monetary value. Cards on curve are pulled to add cards not on curve to save a few dollars. I completely understand money is a factor and I'd agree with replacing some big money cards like Mana crypts and dual lands but some cards pulled in this series synergize so well with the specific commanders it's counterproductive and actually weakens the decks. I love seeing when cards are replaced for structural reasons over monetary concerns because it allows me to see the logic and think differently.

Food pun/10

Redux when?

How is it making the deck better when you're removing many of the best cards in the deck because of pricetags? Fetch/worlds is a seriously important part of many korvold decks.

Food chain and squee

I mean, does Korvold even need to up its average? The average deck os probably plenty strong already 😅

The Squee kinda points to the problems with EDHREC. Squee is in the auto list not because he combos with Korvold, but because at his best, Korvold is a Food Chain commander who uses food chain and Squee to draw your deck and play your wincon. It doesn’t actually have anything to do with Korvold outside of that. EDHREC takes the numbers and shows them to players but never really explains to people as to why they need to play those cards.

i'm like 2 years late lol

Cedh says otherwise. But agreed on a budget haha

I really like this series and I love the EDHreccast but I have to be a bit critical here on this episode. I run a Korvold deck, and in all fairness it could simply be the 50+ games of experience I've had with the commander, but many, many of these cuts I think are being cut for no good reason. I'm all for making a deck better by trimming the fat, but I feel like we halved the cost of this decklist by adding in a bunch of cards that are fairly objectively worse. I'm sorry, but there's no reason to cut Dockside extortionist if we're trying to up the average and are okay with keeping the price the same. Ditto with Liliana, Dreadhorde General. Even taking the tutors out doesn't make sense to me. There are a few great additions with the farhaven elf, Ugin's nexus is super spicy, but many of these additions felt like "hey let's lower the cost of this deck, and make it only slightly worse". I just think there's a fine line between trying to optimize a deck at that $500 budget level, and halving the cost and trying to make it more budget. It's no means a bad decklist, but I feel a lot of amazing cards were cut for additions that aren't better.

I truly don't know how I feel about this series. On one hand, I appreciate this cause it's good at pointing out things people might not realize and fun niche cards. But... it also contributes to deck homogenization. Which drives me nuts (personally).