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Karn, Gilded Guardian

Karn, Gilded Guardian

Legendary Artifact Creature — Golem · {2/W}{2/U}{2/B}{2/R}{2/G} · Black/Green/Red/Blue/White commander

Vigilance, trample When Karn enters, draw a card for each color among other artifacts you control.
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What Karn, Gilded Guardian actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Karn, Gilded Guardian deck needs

Plays as ETB value. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Karn, Gilded Guardian deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Karn, Gilded Guardian

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Airbender Ascension2 mana
  2. Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
  3. Displacer Kitten4 mana
  4. Norin the Wary1 mana
  5. Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
  6. Flickerwisp3 mana
  7. Soulherder3 mana
  8. Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
  2. Akroma's Will4 mana
  3. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  4. Wonder4 mana
  5. Reverse the Polarity3 mana
  6. Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
  7. Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
  8. Garruk's Uprising3 mana

A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Lotus Petal0 mana
  4. Mox Amber0 mana
  5. Mox Diamond0 mana
  6. Mox Opal0 mana
  7. Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
  8. Ornithopter0 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  2. Eternal Witness3 mana
  3. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  4. Baleful Strix2 mana
  5. Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
  6. Spirited Companion2 mana
  7. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  8. Arboreal Grazer1 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Path to Exile1 mana
  3. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  4. Reality Shift2 mana
  5. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  6. Pongify1 mana
  7. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  8. Resculpt2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  8. Neoform2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Supreme Verdict4 mana
  6. Wrath of God4 mana
  7. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  8. Chain Reaction4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  4. Skullclamp1 mana
  5. Sylvan Library2 mana
  6. Curiosity1 mana
  7. Wizard Class1 mana
  8. Black Market Connections3 mana

Combos with Karn, Gilded Guardian

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Karn, Gilded Guardian is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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