New Untitled Deck by Steeliron

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Gilded Guardian

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color artifact midrange build centered on Karn, Gilded Guardian. It leverages low-cost artifact ramp, token generators, and colored artifacts to generate early board presence and card velocity. Once established, the deck transitions into powerful mid-game value engines led by Shorikai, Genesis Engine, Urza, Chief Artificer, and Sai, Master Thopterist, refilling its hand with Karn's color-scaling enter-the-battlefield draw trigger. Victory is achieved through explosive combat finishers, utilizing cards like Cyberdrive Awakener to animate noncreature artifacts into an evasive aerial fleet, Alibou, Ancient Witness for direct burn and scrying, and Wake the Past or Dance of the Manse to reconstitute a lethal board. Supported by efficient spot removal, flexible protection spells like Heroic Intervention and Boros Charm, and passive shielding from Bronze Guardian, the deck steadily outvalues opponents and finishes the table across coordinated combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Ancient Cornucopia
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Angel of Invention
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Breya, Etherium Shaper
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Dance of the Manse
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Executioner's Capsule
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Synthesizer
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Glissa, the Traitor
  • 1 Grand Coliseum
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter
  • 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Master Transmuter
  • 1 Meria, Scholar of Antiquity
  • 1 Metalwork Colossus
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Pyrewood Gearhulk
  • 1 Reverse Engineer
  • 1 Riptide Gearhulk
  • 1 Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shorikai, Genesis Engine
  • 1 Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Thopter Foundry
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Tough Cookie
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urza, Chief Artificer
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Verdurous Gearhulk
  • 1 Wake the Past
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yotian Dissident