Karn by user7363823

Format: Commander

Commander: Karn, Gilded Guardian

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This five-color deck combines artifact token generation with a unique planeswalker empower mechanic. The early game focuses on deploying efficient mana rocks, Heartwood tokens, and low-cost enchantments that create and charge a shared Jace planeswalker token. As loyalty accumulates, the deck transitions into producing 4/4 Beast tokens and Cadet soldiers, while drawing extra cards through loyalty triggers and noncreature cast effects. In the mid-to-late game, the deck resolves formidable finishers like Memnarch, the Warden, Emrakul, the Exigent Doom, Craftwork Crusher, or Ajani Unrelenting to overwhelm the table in combat. While it lacks infinite combos, fast mana, and heavy stax pieces, the list demonstrates strong engine redundancy and swift recovery against single board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ajani Unrelenting
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Arbiter
  • 1 Artifist Acumen
  • 1 Avatar of Burgeoning Echoes
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Craftwork Crusher
  • 1 Currency Converter
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emrakul, the Exigent Doom
  • 1 Essence Burn
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fatehold Charm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flourishing Grapple
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Commons
  • 1 Gallia, the Merrymaker
  • 1 Ginger, Queen of Sweets
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Greenhouse Propagator
  • 1 Guiding Hydra
  • 1 Heartwood Crafter // Soul Tether
  • 1 Hungering Puppetbeast
  • 1 Hunter's Axe
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian
  • 1 Kher Keep
  • 1 Konstrari Annex
  • 1 Konstrari Charm
  • 1 Konstrari Improviser // Soul Tether
  • 1 Loot, the Nexus
  • 1 Loyal Tutor
  • 1 Medic's Kitesail
  • 1 Memnarch, the Warden
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Multiply by Zero
  • 1 Murmuring Volume
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Precise Redaction
  • 1 Proteus Staff
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Restless Anchorage
  • 1 Restless Spire
  • 1 Roiling Canopy
  • 1 Room of Refuge
  • 1 Samut, Hazoret's Champion
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of the Storyteller
  • 1 Stingerquill Charm
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tenured Tethermage
  • 1 Theorist's Proxy
  • 1 Theorix Charm
  • 1 Transformative Commons
  • 1 Turbulent Crater
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vigorbloom Annex
  • 1 Vigorbloom Charm
  • 1 Vraska, Soul of Stone
  • 1 Way of the Cryomancer
  • 1 Way of the Deathbringer
  • 1 Way of the Healer
  • 1 Way of the Mentor
  • 1 Way of the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Way of the Necromancer
  • 1 Way of the Pyromancer
  • 1 Way of the Warlord
  • 1 Way of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Whirlwind of Thought
  • 1 Woodwork Prodigy // Soul Tether
  • 1 Your Fate Ends Here