karn by user6574644

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Gilded Guardian

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-color artifact midrange deck commanded by Karn, Gilded Guardian. The strategy focuses on establishing early mana rocks and utility artifacts to build a wide board state of diverse colors and tokens. Midgame value is generated through powerful card-flow engines such as Fateful Discovery, Mystic Forge, and Karn's enter-the-battlefield ability, which refills the hand based on the colors among your artifacts. The primary win condition transforms this wide artifact infrastructure into an overwhelming combat force using mass animation or power-scaling effects like Cyberdrive Awakener, Craterclaw Colossus, or an alternate win with Hellkite Tyrant. Defensive options like Clever Concealment and mass reanimation via Wake the Past provide resilience against board wipes, allowing the deck to sustain pressure and close games through sequential combat eliminations.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Airbender Ascension
  • 1 Ancient Cornucopia
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Annie Joins Up
  • 1 Annul
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage's Charm
  • 1 Arid Archway
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blinkmoth Urn
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Caged Sun
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 Cast into the Fire
  • 1 Cephalopod Sentry
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Coretapper
  • 1 Craftwork Crusher
  • 1 Craterclaw Colossus
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Elder Owyn Lyons
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Essence of Antiquity
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Fateful Discovery
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Guidelight Synergist
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Hydraulic Helper
  • 1 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Karn, Argent Defender
  • 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
  • 1 Leyline of the Guildpact
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Mistveil Plains
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Murmuring Volume
  • 1 Mutagen Man, Living Ooze
  • 1 Mycosynth Lattice
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
  • 1 Oildeep Gearhulk
  • 1 One with the Machine
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Personify
  • 1 Phial of Galadriel
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Radiant Grove
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sami, Wildcat Captain
  • 1 Silence the Echo
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stone of Erech
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swooping Lookout
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 The Arkenstone // Seek the Heart
  • 1 Theorix Annex
  • 1 Thirst for Knowledge
  • 1 Too Evil to Stay Dead
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Urban Retreat
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Virulent Silencer
  • 1 Vision Quest
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Vraska, Soul of Stone
  • 1 Wake the Past
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent