karn gilded guardian by jonezy2330

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Gilded Guardian

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color artifact midrange deck centered on Karn, Gilded Guardian. The primary strategy accelerates early using cheap mana rocks, cost reducers, and colored artifact creatures to establish a broad, multicolored board. On Turn 5, deploying Karn refills the hand by drawing a card for each color represented among your other artifacts. From there, the deck transitions into blinking Karn and other enter-the-battlefield powerhouses like Combustible Gearhulk, Sharuum the Hegemon, and Breya, Etherium Shaper using cards like Cloudshift and Momentary Blink. Lethal pressure is applied on Turns 6 through 8 via scalable beaters including Bronze Guardian and Cephalopod Sentry, supplemented by noncombat damage from Alibou, Ancient Witness. The deck thrives on board presence and card advantage, though its reliance on permanents makes it susceptible to mass artifact removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acrobatic Maneuver
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Annie Joins Up
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Birnin Zana Plaza
  • 1 Breya, Etherium Shaper
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Cephalopod Sentry
  • 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Bridge
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Cult of Skaro
  • 1 Daydream
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exterminator Magmarch
  • 1 Failed Fording
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Flicker of Fate
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 General Ferrous Rokiric
  • 1 Gongaga, Reactor Town
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Heaped Harvest
  • 1 Hide on the Ceiling
  • 1 Hydraulic Helper
  • 1 Infinite Coursework
  • 1 Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Justiciar's Portal
  • 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian
  • 1 Library of Leng
  • 1 Momentary Blink
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Nahiri's Resolve
  • 1 Night Market
  • 1 Oasis Gardener
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Perfected Theory
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Planar Incision
  • 1 Promising Vein
  • 1 Prophesied End
  • 1 Protector of the Wastes
  • 1 Pyretic Rebirth
  • 1 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest
  • 1 Rescue Skiff
  • 1 Ring of the Lucii
  • 1 Room of Refuge
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Scuttlemutt
  • 1 Shardless Agent
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stingerquill Charm
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Time Twist
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temur Battlecrier
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Royal Scions
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Unable to Scream
  • 1 Verdurous Gearhulk
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Wind-Scarred Crag
  • 1 Zidane, Tantalus Thief
  • 1 Zookeeper Mechan