Karn, gilded guardian by Morazz

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Gilded Guardian

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color artifact midrange powerhouse piloted by Karn, Gilded Guardian. The strategy focuses on deploying colored artifact permanents and cost reducers during the opening turns to build board presence and fix mana across all five colors. On Turn 4, Karn enters the battlefield to provide a massive burst of card draw proportional to the colors among your artifacts. The deck then pivots into high-velocity engines like Urza, Lord High Artificer, Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain, and Mystic Forge, converting cards into overwhelming board presence. Direct damage and haste from Alibou, Ancient Witness, tall construct beaters, and mass reanimation via Wake the Past provide inevitable finishing power. A comprehensive removal suite featuring Dispatch, Assassin's Trophy, and Organic Extinction keeps opposing boards clear while your artifact engine advances unhindered.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
• 1 Aligned Hedron Network
• 1 Ancient Cornucopia
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Assimilation Aegis
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Breya, Etherium Shaper
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Cloud Key
• 1 Cloudshift
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Commercial District
• 1 Conjurer's Closet
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cranial Ram
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Cryogen Relic
• 1 Cursed Mirror
• 1 Decanter of Endless Water
• 1 Demonic Junker
• 1 Dispatch
• 1 Elegant Parlor
• 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 1 Encroaching Mycosynth
• 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
• 1 Etherium Sculptor
• 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Experimental Synthesizer
• 1 Exploration Broodship
• 1 Fabricate
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Forest
• 1 Foundry Inspector
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Ghostly Flicker
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Guidelight Pathmaker
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Heaped Harvest
• 1 Ichor Wellspring
• 1 Infinite Guideline Station
• 1 Island
• 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
• 1 Jungle Shrine
• 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian
• 1 Kaslem's Stonetree // Kaslem's Strider
• 1 Lich's Relic
• 1 Lush Portico
• 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
• 1 Meticulous Archive
• 1 Mishra, Eminent One
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Mystic Forge
• 1 Mystic Monastery
• 1 Nomad Outpost
• 1 Opulent Palace
• 1 Organic Extinction
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Plains
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Rescue Skiff
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Sami, Wildcat Captain
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Savage Lands
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Sculpting Steel
• 1 Seaside Citadel
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Stroke of Midnight
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Tangleweave Armor
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 Thought Monitor
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Thundering Falls
• 1 Twitching Doll
• 1 Underground Mortuary
• 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 1 Uthros Research Craft
• 1 Voyager Quickwelder
• 1 Wake the Past
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Whir of Invention
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Wooded Foothills