Artifact Slop by PRUP

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Gilded Guardian

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color artifact synergy and combo strategy commanded by Karn, Gilded Guardian. It leverages dense low-cost mana acceleration, cost reducers, and specialized artifact tutors to assemble the infinite colorless mana combo of Basalt Monolith and Forsaken Monument. Once infinite mana is online, the deck channels it into Walking Ballista to eliminate all opponents on the spot. If the primary combo is disrupted, the deck pivots into an alternate go-wide artifact creature plan using token generators like Sai, Master Thopterist, Efficient Construction, and Ravenous Robots, backed by scaling burn engines such as Lux Artillery, Molten Gatekeeper, and Glaring Fleshraker. Card advantage is sustained by commanders and engines including Padeem, Consul of Innovation, Shimmer Dragon, and Doctor Doom. The deck's primary vulnerabilities lie in its low density of instant-speed interaction and susceptibility to mass artifact sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arc Reactor
  • 1 Arcbound Ravager
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Call Damage Control
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Ingot
  • 1 Demonic Junker
  • 1 Dependable Quinjet
  • 1 Doctor Doom
  • 1 Donatello, Gadget Master
  • 1 Donatello, Mutant Mechanic
  • 1 Druid of the Anima
  • 1 Efficient Construction
  • 1 Eldrazi Displacer
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Encroaching Mycosynth
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Gene Pollinator
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Glaring Fleshraker
  • 1 Haunt the Network
  • 1 Honored Heirloom
  • 1 Hydraulic Helper
  • 1 Ioreth of the Healing House
  • 1 Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian
  • 1 Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
  • 1 Liquimetal Coating
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Loyal Inventor
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Machinate
  • 1 Machinesmith Automaton
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Mechanized Production
  • 1 Metallic Rebuke
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirran Spy
  • 1 Molten Gatekeeper
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Obelisk of Grixis
  • 1 Oracle's Vault
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Power Depot
  • 1 Ravenous Robots
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Scientist Supreme of A.I.M.
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Sewer-veillance Cam
  • 1 Shimmer Dragon
  • 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
  • 1 Slagstone Refinery
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Surge Conductor
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Tam, Mindful First-Year
  • 1 The Echoverse Fulcrum
  • 1 The Vision
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Transit Mage
  • 1 Trophy Mage
  • 1 Ugin, the Ineffable
  • 1 Vedalken Engineer
  • 1 Vision, Spectral Synthezoid
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Zookeeper Mechan