Artifact Assault by ElegantData5835

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Legacy Reforged

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This colorless Commander deck is led by Karn, Legacy Reforged, functioning as a Big Mana artifact powerhouse that leverages exponential mana acceleration into overwhelming asymmetric threats. The early game focuses on deploying efficient mana rocks like Sol Ring, Mana Vault, and Grim Monolith alongside potent utility lands like Ancient Tomb and Urza's Workshop. Once Karn enters the battlefield, its upkeep trigger produces massive amounts of unexpiring colorless mana scaling directly with your artifact count. This mana surplus fuels devastating asymmetric wipes such as All Is Dust and Ugin, the Spirit Dragon, oppressive attrition engines like Portal to Phyrexia, and lethal combat threats like Blightsteel Colossus. The deck also features a compact infinite colorless mana combo in Basalt Monolith combined with Forsaken Monument or Rings of Brighthearth, funneling limitless mana into Walking Ballista or Staff of Domination to eliminate the entire table on the spot.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 All Is Dust
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cityscape Leveler
  • 1 Clock of Omens
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Commander's Plate
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Monolith
  • 1 Duplicant
  • 1 Eldritch Immunity
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Excalibur, Sword of Eden
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Extinguisher Battleship
  • 1 Fomori Vault
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Glaring Fleshraker
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Karn, Scion of Urza
  • 1 Kozilek's Command
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Kuldotha Forgemaster
  • 1 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Lodestone Golem
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Metalwork Colossus
  • 1 Metalworker
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 1 Mycosynth Golem
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Nexus of Becoming
  • 1 Not of This World
  • 1 Patchwork Automaton
  • 1 Planar Nexus
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Selective Obliteration
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spine of Ish Sah
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 The Mightstone and Weakstone
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Traxos, Scourge Eternal
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Ugin's Labyrinth
  • 1 Ugin, Eye of the Storms
  • 1 Ugin, the Ineffable
  • 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion
  • 1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Urza's Workshop
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Warping Wail
  • 17 Wastes
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine