Karnage

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Gilded Guardian

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color artifact midrange engine centered on Karn, Gilded Guardian. It leverages artifact cost reducers and color-diverse permanents to accelerate mana, flood the battlefield with artifact tokens, and draw large bursts of cards upon Karn's entry. The primary strategy develops early mana rocks and token generators like Sai, Master Thopterist and Simulacrum Synthesizer, then transitions into repeatable blink loops with Teleportation Circle and Conjurer's Closet to continuously re-trigger enters-the-battlefield abilities. Victory is achieved through wide combat overrun, converting accumulated noncreature artifacts and tokens into lethal flying threats via Cyberdrive Awakener, overloaded Rise and Shine, or Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer. The interaction suite features versatile exiles like Dispatch and Anguished Unmaking alongside countermagic to disrupt key opposing threats. While vulnerable to artifact sweepers like Farewell, the deck features resilient graveyard recursion through Sun Titan and Scrap Trawler to rebuild rapidly and close out games through overwhelming board advantage.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aether Channeler
• 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
• 1 Ancient Den
• 1 Angel of the Ruins
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Armix, Filigree Thrasher
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Breya, Etherium Shaper
• 1 Brightglass Gearhulk
• 1 Bronze Guardian
• 1 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
• 1 Cayth, Famed Mechanist
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Cloudblazer
• 1 Cloudshift
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conjurer's Closet
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
• 1 Darksteel Citadel
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Dispatch
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
• 1 Ephemerate
• 1 Etherium Sculptor
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fabricate
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Field of Ruin
• 1 Forbidden Orchard
• 3 Forest
• 1 Foundry Inspector
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Ghostly Flicker
• 1 Glimmervoid
• 1 Great Furnace
• 1 Infinite Guideline Station
• 1 Inventors' Fair
• 2 Island
• 1 Junk Diver
• 1 Junk Winder
• 1 Kappa Cannoneer
• 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian
• 1 Liquimetal Torque
• 1 Master of Etherium
• 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
• 1 Mind Stone
• 2 Mountain
• 1 Myr Battlesphere
• 1 Myr Retriever
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Pactdoll Terror
• 1 Panharmonicon
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 2 Plains
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Riptide Gearhulk
• 1 Rise and Shine
• 1 Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance
• 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1 Scrap Trawler
• 1 Sculpting Steel
• 1 Seat of the Synod
• 1 Shorikai, Genesis Engine
• 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
• 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Skyclave Apparition
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Spire of Industry
• 1 Sun Titan
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Teleportation Circle
• 1 The World Tree
• 1 Thopter Engineer
• 1 Thought Monitor
• 1 Thoughtcast
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Tree of Tales
• 1 Unwinding Clock
• 1 Uthros Research Craft
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 Vault of Whispers