Solarpunk

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Gilded Guardian

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color artifact midrange build centered on board presence, cost reduction, and scaling Construct beatdown. Headed by Karn, Gilded Guardian, the deck uses its commander primarily as a mid-to-late game burst card advantage piece rather than an indispensable centerpiece. Early turns establish mana stability with rocks like Chromatic Lantern and reducers such as Etherium Sculptor. The deck transitions into creating massive artifact bodies using Urza, Chief Artificer, Digsite Engineer, and Thousand Moons Smithy. Interaction consists of high-utility spot answers like Anguished Unmaking and sweeping capability from Scourglass. Resilience is bolstered by robust artifact recursion via Academy Ruins, Sharuum the Hegemon, and Scrap Trawler. While the deck generates immense combat pressure and substantial card draw, it wins almost purely through the red zone and is vulnerable to persistent artifact board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Ruins
• 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
• 1 Angel of the Ruins
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcum Dagsson
• 1 Artificer Class
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Behemoth Sledge
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Chief Engineer
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Clock of Omens
• 1 Coalition Victory
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conflux
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cryogen Relic
• 1 Crystal Barricade
• 1 Cursed Mirror
• 1 Darksteel Angel
• 1 Decanter of Endless Water
• 1 Digsite Engineer
• 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
• 1 Esoteric Duplicator
• 1 Etherium Sculptor
• 1 Ethersworn Canonist
• 1 Etherwrought Page
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fabricate
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fist of Suns
• 1 Force of Will
• 2 Forest
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Ironsoul Enforcer
• 1 Island
• 1 Jarad's Orders
• 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian
• 1 Maelstrom Nexus
• 1 Master Transmuter
• 1 Memnarch, the Warden
• 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
• 1 Mistvault Bridge
• 2 Mountain
• 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
• 1 Norn's Annex
• 1 Oni-Cult Anvil
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 2 Plains
• 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
• 1 Proteus Staff
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Replicating Ring
• 1 Repurposing Bay
• 1 Rite of Oblivion
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1 Scourglass
• 1 Scrap Trawler
• 1 Semblance Anvil
• 1 Sharding Sphinx
• 1 Shared Roots
• 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Spara's Headquarters
• 1 Sphinx Summoner
• 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Spire of Industry
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Steel Overseer
• 1 Steelswarm Operator
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Tangleweave Armor
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 The Fire Nation Drill
• 1 Thopter Spy Network
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand
• 1 Trading Post
• 1 Treasure Vault
• 1 Triplicate Titan
• 1 Turbulent Crater
• 1 Turbulent Fen
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Up the Beanstalk
• 1 Urza, Chief Artificer
• 1 Vedalken Engineer
• 1 Venser's Journal
• 1 Whip of Erebos
• 1 Wildfield Borderpost
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Wizard Class