Karn, Silver Golem Animate High-Cost Artifacts

Commander / EDH

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Artifact (42)

• 1x Aether Vial
• 1x Commander's Plate
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Dusk Legion Dreadnought
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Forsaken Monument
• 1x God-Pharaoh's Statue
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Icy Manipulator
• 1x Joven's Tools
• 1x Liquimetal Coating
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Manifold Key
• 1x Millstone
• 1x Mobile Garrison
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Ovalchase Dragster
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Planar Portal
• 1x Power Conduit
• 1x Prototype Portal
• 1x Ring of Three Wishes
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Rocket Launcher
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Sisay's Ring
• 1x Skyship Weatherlight
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Thran Temporal Gateway
• 1x Thundering Chariot
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Ugin's Nexus
• 1x Untethered Express
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Voltaic Key
• 1x Weatherlight
• 1x Welding Jar

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cloudpost
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Glimmerpost
• 1x Guildless Commons
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Mage-Ring Network
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Mishra's Factory
• 1x Painted Bluffs
• 1x Power Depot
• 1x Radiant Fountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Scorched Ruins
• 1x Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
• 1x Sunscorched Desert
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urza's Factory
• 1x Urza's Mine
• 1x Urza's Power Plant
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Urza's Tower
• 1x War Room
• 3x Wastes
• 1x Zhalfirin Void

Commander (1)

Creature (14)

• 1x Assembly-Worker
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Jhoira's Toolbox
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Mishra's Self-Replicator
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Scaretiller
• 1x Self-Assembler
• 1x Shimmer Myr
• 1x Suspicious Bookcase
• 1x Voltaic Construct
• 1x Walking Ballista

Sorcery (3)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Introduction to Annihilation
• 1x Introduction to Prophecy

Instant (2)

• 1x Not of this World
• 1x Warping Wail

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

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My colorless Karn, Silver Golem deck. Centers mostly around animating artifacts with high mana values. Lots of ways to cheat higher costing artifacts into play with tutor effects and effects that put permanents into the battlefield. Vehicles with mana values greater or equal to their powers have been included in this deck. Also includes some Assembly-Worker support.

Janky Combo/Synergy #1: Activate 'Tormod's Crypt' as needed. Activate 'Buried Ruin' and sacrifice to retrieve 'Tormod's Crypt'. Tap 'Scaretiller' (not hard to do in a deck with Vehicles) and return 'Buried Ruin' to battlefield tapped. Repeat as needed to hose the graveyard player! An alternate version involves using 'Scaretiller' to retrieve 'Urza's Saga' after the saga goes through each time for more tutoring, more Constructs!

Janky Combo/Synergy #2: Activate Karn's ability targetting 'Forsaken Monument'. As a creature it gains +2/+2 due to its own ability and becomes a 7/7 creature.

Janky Combo/Synergy #3: After you've used up all the wish counters on 'Ring of Three Wishes', it can stick around as a 5/5 creature if you animate it!

Update 6/15/2022 - Swapped out 'Cave of Temptation', 'Glimmervoid', and 'Shimmering Grotto' for three Wastes. Reason - Karn has proven to be susceptible to cards like Field of Ruin and Path to Exile, since it had no basic lands. I have included "add one mana of any color" lands due to the existence of 'Void Mirror', which potentially could hose this deck (ironically, nobody I played against used this card for any reason thus far). I still left some of those in the deck due to synergy (Power Depot, and Painted Bluffs).

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 43 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.62
Tokens	Assembly-Worker 2/2 C, Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Spirit 2/2 C