What in KARNation!? by WePlayBarefoot

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Legacy Reforged

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power colorless artifact ramp and combo-control engine commanded by Karn, Legacy Reforged. The strategy focuses on accelerating through efficient mana rocks and specialized lands to deploy Karn on Turn 3 or 4. Karn's upkeep ability converts artifact density into massive pools of colorless mana that persist across turn phases. This mana surplus fuels explosive card advantage via The One Ring and Mystic Forge, while enabling compact tutor chains. The primary win condition revolves around generating infinite colorless mana using Basalt Monolith and Forsaken Monument, which immediately powers an arbitrarily large Walking Ballista to kill the table. Alternatively, the deck establishes an unanswerable lock using Karn, the Great Creator and Mycosynth Lattice, shutting down all opponent mana sources and activated abilities. Sweepers like All Is Dust and Ugin, the Spirit Dragon clear colored boards asymmetrically to secure victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All Is Dust
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arch of Orazca
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Blast Zone
  • 1 Blasted Landscape
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Canoptek Spyder
  • 1 Cityscape Leveler
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Conduit of Ruin
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Forge
  • 1 Darksteel Monolith
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Doubling Cube
  • 1 Echoes of Eternity
  • 1 Eldrazi Temple
  • 1 Eldritch Immunity
  • 1 Emrakul, the Exigent Doom
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Excalibur, Sword of Eden
  • 1 Forge of Heroes
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Guildless Commons
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Kaldra Compleat
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Karn, the Great Creator
  • 1 Kozilek's Command
  • 1 Kozilek, the Great Distortion
  • 1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
  • 1 Kuldotha Forgemaster
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Metalworker
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirrorpool
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 1 Mycosynth Golem
  • 1 Mycosynth Lattice
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Not of This World
  • 1 Null Elemental Blast
  • 1 Planar Bridge
  • 1 Platinum Angel
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Rise of the Eldrazi
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sanctum of Ugin
  • 1 Sandstone Oracle
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Scorched Ruins
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Semblance Anvil
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
  • 1 Skittering Cicada
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The Immortal Sun
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tomb of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Ugin's Labyrinth
  • 1 Ugin, Eye of the Storms
  • 1 Ugin, the Ineffable
  • 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Urza's Workshop
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Voltaic Key
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 War Room
  • 3 Wastes
  • 1 Winter Orb
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine
  • 1 Zhalfirin Void