popkornslop by Rtags

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Gilded Guardian

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-color artifact midrange powerhouse helmed by Karn, Gilded Guardian. It leverages a dense package of artifact lands, cheap mana rocks, and cost reducers like Etherium Sculptor to accelerate into high-impact artifact engines ahead of curve. Once Karn enters the battlefield, it draws a massive burst of cards scaled to the variety of colors among your artifacts, which can be repeatedly triggered using blink engines like Teleportation Circle and Ephemerate. The deck converts this immense card advantage into overwhelming board presence through Construct token generators like Simulacrum Synthesizer and Urza, Chief Artificer, or through decisive alpha strikes with Cyberdrive Awakener and Alibou, Ancient Witness. Opponents face asymmetric disruption from Organic Extinction and Riptide Gearhulk, while Bronze Guardian and Heroic Intervention safeguard your mechanized army as it closes out the game over two focused combat cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Breya, Etherium Shaper
  • 1 Brightglass Gearhulk
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fateful Discovery
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Goldmire Bridge
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Iron Man, Bleeding Edge
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Leyline of the Guildpact
  • 1 Lich's Relic
  • 1 Mistvault Bridge
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Pinnacle Emissary
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Riptide Gearhulk
  • 1 Rustvale Bridge
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Silverbluff Bridge
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tanglepool Bridge
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Timeless Lotus
  • 1 Transguild Courier
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza, Chief Artificer
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Wake the Past
  • 1 Watery Grave