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Karn, Gilded Guardian
Legendary Artifact Creature — Golem
Vigilance, trample When Karn enters, draw a card for each color among other artifacts you control.
5 / 5
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“Five-color artifact draw engine that grows stronger with colorful mana.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Superfriends, Tokens, Artifact-matters, Counters
Strategy
Karn, Gilded Guardian is a five-color artifact payoff engine that rewards you for building a colorful artifact-focused manabase. When Karn enters, you draw a card for each color among your other artifacts—meaning a diverse mix of colored artifact creatures and permanents triggers card draw. Your gameplan revolves around filling your board with multicolored artifacts (especially new prepared creatures from Reality Fracture like Vigorbloom Vanguard and Prudent Fateseer), then swinging in with vigilant, trampling pressure while generating value. The deck leans into Superfriends synergies, since compressed planeswalkers in the new set are cheap and stack loyalty quickly alongside artifact synergies.
Your win condition is usually combat damage backed by incremental advantages. Karn itself is a 5/5 with vigilance and trample, so it pressures opponents while you hold up blockers. Layer in planeswalkers like Ajani Resolute (which synergizes with lifegain) and Garruk, Curse Breaker (which draws cards when your powered-up artifacts hit the board) to create a locked-in value spiral. The prepared mechanics and artifact tokens (Cadet tokens, Beast tokens) give you a growing board presence that turns Karn's draw trigger into consistent card advantage.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey dual lands; use budget mana-fixing like Evolving Wilds, Tri lands, and Commanderin staples like Rupture Spire instead of ABUR duals. Swap pricey planeswalkers for cheaper FRA reimagines.
Signature Cards
- 1Enthusiastic Mechanaut
- 2Etherium Sculptor
- 3Baleful Strix
- 4Infinite Guideline Station
- 5Phyrexian Metamorph
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