New Karn 1.0 by user8849627

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Gilded Guardian

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-color artifact midrange engine commanded by Karn, Gilded Guardian. The game plan establishes an early base of multicolored artifacts, artifact creature tokens (such as Heartwood tokens), and low-cost ramp. Once colored artifacts are in play, casting Karn immediately refills the hand by drawing a card for each color among other artifacts controlled. The deck utilizes airbend and flicker mechanics from cards like Appa, Steadfast Guardian and Flickering Hound to repeatedly trigger Karn's draw ability and other enter-the-battlefield effects. With massive card flow and mana acceleration from pieces like Inspiring Statuary and Relic of Legends, the deck transitions into win conditions such as Psychosis Crawler life drain, Warstorm Surge damage, Hellkite Tyrant's upkeep victory, or wide combat pressure with Aerid Konstrari and Scute Swarm. Comprehensive interaction, recursion, and protection spells maintain resilience throughout the mid-to-late game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aang, Airbending Master
  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Aerid Konstrari
  • 1 Appa, Steadfast Guardian
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bootleggers' Stash
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Coveted Jewel
  • 1 Cryptic Coat
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dimension X Pizzasaur
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Elena, Turk Recruit
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flickering Hound
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gandalf the White
  • 1 Gleaming Geardrake
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grim Bauble
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heartwood Crafter // Soul Tether
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hulldrifter
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Inspiring Statuary
  • 1 Into the Roil
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Konstrari Improviser // Soul Tether
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Progenitor Mimic
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Unfinished Business
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woodwork Prodigy // Soul Tether
  • 1 Zagoth Triome