5C - Artifacts - Karn by user3173140

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Gilded Guardian

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-color artifact midrange deck commanded by Karn, Gilded Guardian. The primary strategy accelerates mana through cheap cost reducers like Etherium Sculptor and Foundry Inspector while deploying multicolor artifacts such as Baleful Strix, Enthusiastic Mechanaut, and Transguild Courier. On Turn 4, casting Karn converts colored artifact diversity into a burst of 3 to 5 fresh cards. The deck then transitions into a decisive board state on Turn 5 using Simulacrum Synthesizer, Cyberdrive Awakener, or Alibou, Ancient Witness to generate a massive, flying, or hasty artifact army. Opponents face rapid elimination across Turns 5 and 6. The deck features strong interaction through Dispatch, Swords to Plowshares, and Organic Extinction, backed by protective shields such as Bronze Guardian, Boros Charm, and Paladin Danse, Steel Maverick. If disrupted, mass recursion via Wake the Past swiftly restores the battlefield.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Adaptive Omnitool
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blacksmith's Skill
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Castle Doom
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chaos Defiler
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Demonic Junker
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Elegant Parlor
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
  • 1 Iron Man, Master of Machines
  • 1 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Leyline of the Guildpact
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 One with the Machine
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Paladin Danse, Steel Maverick
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Pinnacle Emissary
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Ravenous Robots
  • 1 Reckless Handling
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Riptide Gearhulk
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Salvation Colossus
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solar Array
  • 1 Solitary Cell
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Suppression Ray // Orderly Plaza
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 The Cyber-Controller
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Transguild Courier
  • 1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Voyage Home
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Wake the Past
  • 1 Xander's Lounge