Karn - Affinity for Destruction by Felps2048

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Legacy Reforged

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a colorless big-mana and artifact combo strategy led by Karn, Legacy Reforged. The game plan revolves around deploying low-cost mana rocks in the opening turns, casting Karn on Turn 4, and utilizing his upkeep mana trigger to produce massive amounts of unspent colorless mana. This mana fuels game-ending threats and tutors, culminating in a primary two-card infinite mana combo between Forsaken Monument and Basalt Monolith. Once infinite mana is generated, the deck draws its library using Staff of Domination or searches for Walking Ballista to eliminate all opponents on Turn 5. The deck incorporates robust stax elements like Karn, Argent Defender to suppress enters-the-battlefield abilities and high-end board wipes like All Is Dust to reset opponents while leaving colorless permanents untouched. Strong protection engines such as Darksteel Forge and Eldritch Immunity safeguard the board against conventional removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All Is Dust
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Blast Zone
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cityscape Leveler
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Forge
  • 1 Darksteel Monolith
  • 1 Desecrate Reality
  • 1 Echoes of Eternity
  • 1 Eldritch Immunity
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Fomori Vault
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Geode Golem
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Hedron Crawler
  • 1 Hidden Grotto
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Karn, Argent Defender
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Karn, Scion of Urza
  • 1 Kozilek's Command
  • 1 Kuldotha Forgemaster
  • 1 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lodestone Golem
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Memnarch, the Warden
  • 1 Metalwork Colossus
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirrorworks
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 1 Mycosynth Golem
  • 1 Mycosynth Lattice
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Not of This World
  • 1 Null Elemental Blast
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Planar Bridge
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Eldrazi
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanctum of Ugin
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Scour from Existence
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Selective Obliteration
  • 1 Shimmer Myr
  • 1 Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul of New Phyrexia
  • 1 Spine of Ish Sah
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Steel Hellkite
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Thran Temporal Gateway
  • 1 Titan's Presence
  • 1 Tomb of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Ugin, the Ineffable
  • 1 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Urza's Factory
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Urza's Workshop
  • 1 Voltaic Key
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 War Room
  • 9 Wastes
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine
  • 1 Zenith Chronicler
  • 1 Zhalfirin Void