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Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Argent Defender

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power colorless ramp and stax strategy led by Karn, Argent Defender. Karn provides a static suppression effect in the command zone starting on Turn 2, turning off all artifact and creature enters-the-battlefield triggers for opponents without hindering your own on-cast Eldrazi triggers. The deck rapidly accelerates using low-cost mana rocks, cost reducers, and utility lands such as Eye of Ugin and the Urza land trio. By Turns 4 and 5, it deploys powerful mana multipliers like Forsaken Monument and Darksteel Monolith, enabling explosive card flow with Mystic Forge and Chimil, the Inner Sun. It controls the board through asymmetric board wipes like All Is Dust and Ugin, the Spirit Dragon, while locking out opposing actions with Karn, the Great Creator and Void Winnower. It closes games decisively using Annihilator combat triggers, Blightsteel Colossus, and team-wide haste from Krang, Utrom Warlord.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All Is Dust
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Blast Zone
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Commander's Plate
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Monolith
  • 1 Deserted Temple
  • 1 Echoes of Eternity
  • 1 Eldrazi Temple
  • 1 Eldritch Immunity
  • 1 Endbringer
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Eye of Ugin
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Genji Glove
  • 1 Glaring Fleshraker
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Karn, Argent Defender
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Karn, the Great Creator
  • 1 Kozilek's Command
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Kozilek, the Great Distortion
  • 1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
  • 1 Kuldotha Forgemaster
  • 1 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Not of This World
  • 1 Null Elemental Blast
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Platinum Angel
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Eldrazi
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Selective Obliteration
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shimmer Myr
  • 1 Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
  • 1 Skittering Cicada
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulless Jailer
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The Ten Rings
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Titan's Presence
  • 1 Tomb of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Ugin's Labyrinth
  • 1 Ugin, Eye of the Storms
  • 1 Ugin, the Ineffable
  • 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Urza's Workshop
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 War Room
  • 14 Wastes
  • 1 Worn Powerstone