Karn, the cluster flub. by sporkula

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Legacy Reforged

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a colorless big-mana strategy piloted by Karn, Legacy Reforged. The game plan revolves around rapidly developing low-cost artifact mana rocks on early turns, deploying Karn on Turn 4, and utilizing Karn's upkeep mana trigger to produce massive amounts of colorless mana starting on Turn 5. This mana fuels overwhelming high-mana threats, including devastating Eldrazi like Desolation Twin and Breaker of Creation, doubled-spell engines like Echoes of Eternity, and powerful equipment like Leyline Axe. The deck backs up its primary stompy strategy with utility artifacts and targeted hate pieces, including Karn, the Great Creator, Stone of Erech, and Phyrexian Revoker. While it lacks blue countermagic and compact two-card infinite combos, the deck overwhelms opponents with sheer mana velocity and massive creature combat damage across three turn cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Arcane Encyclopedia
  • 1 Argentum Masticore
  • 1 Arid Archway
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Breaker of Creation
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Contagion Clasp
  • 1 Contagion Engine
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Desert
  • 1 Desolation Twin
  • 1 Dust Bowl
  • 1 Echoes of Eternity
  • 1 Eldrazi Devastator
  • 1 Eldrazi Ravager
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Glaring Fleshraker
  • 1 Golem Artisan
  • 1 Guardian Idol
  • 1 Ice Floe
  • 1 Icy Manipulator
  • 1 Idol of False Gods
  • 1 Introduction to Annihilation
  • 1 Introduction to Prophecy
  • 1 It That Heralds the End
  • 1 Jasmine Dragon Tea Shop
  • 1 Junk Diver
  • 1 Karn Liberated
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Karn, Living Legacy
  • 1 Karn, the Great Creator
  • 1 Kozilek's Command
  • 1 Leyline Axe
  • 1 Library of Leng
  • 1 Mage-Ring Network
  • 1 Magnifying Glass
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Meteor Sword
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindslaver
  • 1 Mirrormind Crown
  • 1 Mishra's Factory
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Navigation Orb
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Nuisance Engine
  • 1 Nuka-Nuke Launcher
  • 1 Null Elemental Blast
  • 1 Petrified Hamlet
  • 1 Phyrexian Revoker
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Promising Vein
  • 1 Ring of the Lucii
  • 1 Runaway Boulder
  • 1 Sandstorm Verge
  • 1 Scour from Existence
  • 1 Scuttling Doom Engine
  • 1 Serrated Biskelion
  • 1 Serum Tank
  • 1 Shire Terrace
  • 1 Slate of Ancestry
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Foundry
  • 1 Stone of Erech
  • 1 Strixhaven Stadium
  • 1 Suspicious Bookcase
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Underworld Cookbook
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tocasia's Dig Site
  • 1 Transmutation Font
  • 1 Ugin's Labyrinth
  • 1 Unlicensed Hearse
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Volatile Fault
  • 12 Wastes
  • 1 Workshop Assistant
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Zuko's Exile