karn by user9586290

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Gilded Guardian

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color artifact midrange build centered on Karn, Gilded Guardian. The strategy focuses on accelerating through early mana rocks and cost reducers like Etherium Sculptor and Arcane Signet before establishing a resilient board of colored artifacts. Karn, Gilded Guardian serves as a potent card-draw engine in the command zone, drawing up to five cards on entry when paired with multicolor permanents like Sphinx of the Guildpact. The deck transitions into a lethal win condition around Turn 6 by leveraging high-impact overrun cards such as Cyberdrive Awakener, Craterclaw Colossus, and Krang, Utrom Warlord to animate its noncreature artifacts into an overwhelming flying or trample army. Robust protection pieces including Bronze Guardian, Padeem, Consul of Innovation, and Flawless Maneuver safeguard the board against removal, while asymmetric sweepers like Organic Extinction break parity to clear paths for lethal combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Aloy, Savior of Meridian
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Breya, Etherium Shaper
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cranial Plating
  • 1 Craterclaw Colossus
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Ethersworn Canonist
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flickering Hound
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hide on the Ceiling
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Infinite Guideline Station
  • 1 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Junk Diver
  • 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Nettlecyst
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 One with the Machine
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Paladin Danse, Steel Maverick
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prismatic Omen
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Shimmer Myr
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solar Array
  • 1 Spaceshift
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Sphinx of the Guildpact
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Transguild Courier
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Wake the Past
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast