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Karn, Silver Golem

Karn, Silver Golem

Legendary Artifact Creature — Golem · {5} · Colorless commander

Whenever Karn blocks or becomes blocked, it gets -4/+4 until end of turn. {1}: Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value until end of turn.
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What Karn, Silver Golem 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, Silver Golem deck needs

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

The Karn, Silver Golem deck plan

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

Best cards for Karn, Silver Golem

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.

A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific

  1. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  2. Bontu's Monument3 mana
  3. Oketra's Monument3 mana
  4. Hazoret's Monument3 mana
  5. Rhonas's Monument3 mana
  6. Twinning Staff3 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Sensei's Divining Top1 mana

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

  1. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  2. Titan's Presence3 mana
  3. Kozilek's Command2 mana
  4. Warping Wail2 mana
  5. Null Elemental Blast1 mana
  6. Zuko's Exile5 mana
  7. Clay Golem4 mana
  8. Lazotep Quarry0 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  2. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  3. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  4. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  5. Shrine Steward5 mana
  6. Self-Assembler5 mana
  7. Pyre of Heroes2 mana
  8. Tamiyo's Journal5 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  2. Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
  3. Karn's Sylex3 mana
  4. Calamity of the Titans6 mana
  5. Apocalypse Chime2 mana
  6. The Moment2 mana
  7. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  8. Coercive Portal4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. The One Ring4 mana
  3. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  4. Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
  5. Key to the City2 mana
  6. Mask of Memory2 mana
  7. Tome of Legends2 mana
  8. Buster Sword3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Cryptothrall4 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

Combos with Karn, Silver Golem

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

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