Karn's Artifacts by Tonybark420

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Gilded Guardian

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color artifact midrange and blink engine commanded by Karn, Gilded Guardian. The primary strategy revolves around assembling multicolored artifacts such as Transguild Courier, Leyline of the Guildpact, and various colored Gearhulks, allowing Karn's enter-the-battlefield trigger to draw up to five fresh cards every time he enters. A comprehensive suite of instant-speed and repeatable blink enablers—such as Teleportation Circle, Displacer Kitten, and Ephemerate—transforms this one-time burst into an overpowering card engine while repeatedly triggering high-impact removal abilities. The deck transitions into a lethal win condition through artifact overrun payoffs like Cyberdrive Awakener and Craterclaw Colossus, token swarms from Simulacrum Synthesizer, or an infinite mana loop via Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal. Backed by a pristine 38-land mana base, asymmetric sweepers like Desynchronization, and mass-blink protection spells, the deck generates overwhelming board presence and resilient late-game inevitability.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Breya, Etherium Shaper
  • 1 Brightglass Gearhulk
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Coalstoke Gearhulk
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Craterclaw Colossus
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Desynchronization
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Fateful Discovery
  • 1 Flickering Hound
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Infinite Guideline Station
  • 1 Iron Man, Bleeding Edge
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Lae'zel's Acrobatics
  • 1 Leyline of the Guildpact
  • 1 Lich's Relic
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Oildeep Gearhulk
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pyrewood Gearhulk
  • 1 Riptide Gearhulk
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spaceshift
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Teferi's Time Twist
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Millennium Calendar
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Time Sieve
  • 1 Transguild Courier
  • 1 Tree of Tales
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills