Karn by user4983259

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Gilded Guardian

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 61

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered 5-color artifact combo and storm list commanded by Karn, Gilded Guardian. It leverages dense fast mana, cost reducers, and colored artifact synergies to deploy explosive draw engines. The commander turns a board of colored artifacts into immediate hand refills, while continuous engines like The One Ring, Rhystic Study, and Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain sustain velocity. The deck wins primarily through a Displacer Kitten loop with Teferi, Time Raveler and zero-mana artifacts, drawing the entire library and converting infinite mana through Urza, Lord High Artificer and Breya, Etherium Shaper to burn out all opponents in a single turn. Backup finishes include Cyberdrive Awakener animating the board into an aerial alpha strike and Underworld Breach storm lines. An elite interaction and protection suite featuring free countermagic and silence effects keeps the combo insulated against disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Breya, Etherium Shaper
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cranial Ram
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Myr Convert
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Pinnacle Emissary
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills