Golden Karn by Silentassassin9

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Gilded Guardian

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-color artifact midrange strategy commanded by Karn, Gilded Guardian, centered on colored artifact synergies, blink loops, and wide combat finishers. It uses indestructible artifact lands (Bridges) and Borderposts to establish a high colored-artifact count, turning Karn's enter-the-battlefield trigger into a potent hand refill. The mana curve is accelerated by cost reducers like Etherium Sculptor and Enthusiastic Mechanaut alongside scaling ramp such as Karn, Legacy Reforged. In the midgame, value engines like Teleportation Circle, Repurposing Bay, and Master Transmuter generate sustained material advantage and deploy high-impact Gearhulks. The primary win condition transforms noncreature artifacts into aggressive beaters using Cyberdrive Awakener, Depthshaker Titan, or Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer, closing the game across multiple heavy combat phases. While vulnerable to fast combos due to low instant-speed disruption, it maintains high resilience against destroy-based sweepers thanks to indestructible lands and mass reanimation via Wake the Past.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arsenal Thresher
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Bootleggers' Stash
  • 1 Brightglass Gearhulk
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
  • 1 Cataclysmic Gearhulk
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darkmoss Bridge
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Depthshaker Titan
  • 1 Diamond Weapon
  • 1 Drossforge Bridge
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Evolving Door
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Extravagant Replication
  • 1 Fieldmist Borderpost
  • 1 Firewild Borderpost
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gene Pollinator
  • 1 Glassdust Hulk
  • 1 Goldmire Bridge
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Hulking Metamorph
  • 1 Hullcarver
  • 1 Infinite Guideline Station
  • 1 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Master Transmuter
  • 1 Mechan Assembler
  • 1 Mechanized Production
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Mirrorworks
  • 1 Mistvault Bridge
  • 1 Mistvein Borderpost
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Moxite Refinery
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Oildeep Gearhulk
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Pinnacle Emissary
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prototype Portal
  • 1 Pyrewood Gearhulk
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Repurposing Bay
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rustvale Bridge
  • 1 Salvation Engine
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Silverbluff Bridge
  • 1 Slagwoods Bridge
  • 1 Solar Array
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul Foundry
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Tanglepool Bridge
  • 1 Tapestry Warden
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Tempered Steel
  • 1 The Eternity Elevator
  • 1 The Key to the Vault
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Thornglint Bridge
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Veinfire Borderpost
  • 1 Voidforged Titan
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Wake the Past
  • 1 Wildfield Borderpost