Karn by Skinwalker

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Gilded Guardian

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-color artifact midrange engine commanded by Karn, Gilded Guardian. It leverages dense low-cost artifact ramp and cost reducers to deploy recurring blink enablers such as Teleportation Circle, Soulherder, and Displacer Kitten. Once assembled, blinking Karn and other ETB creatures like Thought Monitor and Noxious Gearhulk generates massive card advantage and board control. The deck translates its card velocity into overwhelming combat pressure via Simulacrum Synthesizer Karnstruct tokens and game-ending overrun effects like Cyberdrive Awakener or asymmetric wipes like Organic Extinction. Interaction is highly efficient, featuring premier spot removal, countermagic, and hate pieces like Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Breya, Etherium Shaper
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Myr Convert
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Pinnacle Emissary
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulherder
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vedalken Archmage
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wake the Past
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills