Karn, the Great Creator
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Activated abilities of artifacts your opponents control can't be activated.
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.
−2: You may reveal an artifact card you own from outside the game or choose a face-up artifact card you own in exile. Put that card into your hand.
Combos with Karn, the Great Creator
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Mycosynth Lattice Infinite
- Activated abilities of permanents your opponents control can't be activated
- Activated abilities can't be activated
- Lock
- Mass Land Denial
- Aetherflux Reservoir Infinite
- Infinite damage
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Gonti's Aether Heart Displacer Kitten Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- The Dominion Bracelet Displacer Kitten Infinite
- You control one opponent on each of their turns
- Lock
- Voltaic Construct Time Vault Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Pemmin's Aura Chromatic Orrery Infinite
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite colorless mana
- Vigean Graftmage Chromatic Orrery Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite draw triggers
- Freed from the Real Chromatic Orrery Infinite
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite colored mana
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these. Follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2019-05-03
A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature can attack, and its T abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn't matter how long the permanent has been a creature.
- 2019-05-03
If a permanent has X in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
- 2019-05-03
Karn's last ability can't get a face-down card in exile, even if you know it's an artifact card.
- 2019-05-03
In a casual game, a card you choose from outside the game comes from your personal collection. In a tournament event, a card you choose from outside the game must come from your sideboard. You may look at your sideboard at any time.
- 2019-05-03
Karn's first ability affects only artifacts on the battlefield. Activated abilities that work in other zones can still be activated.
- 2019-05-03
Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keyword abilities are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text, such as equip. Triggered abilities (starting with "when," "whenever," or "at") are unaffected by Karn.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Karn, the Great Creator, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urza, Lord High Artificer | 1 | 8 | 12.5% |
| Bosh, Iron Golem | 1 | 3 | — |
| Zhulodok, Void Gorger | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Colorless 1 deck
- Mono-Red 1 deck
- Mono-Blue 1 deck
Karn, the Great Creator price history
The Ravnica Remastered #1 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2026 | $5.26 | $5.95 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $5.26 | $5.95 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $5.21 | $5.95 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $5.21 | $6.01 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $5.21 | $6.10 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $5.20 | $6.51 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $5.18 | $6.51 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $5.18 | $6.41 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $5.16 | $6.41 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Karn, the Great Creator
10 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Mystery Booster 2
- Normal
- $3.26
Borderless
- Normal
- $10.44
- Foil
- $13.09
Ravnica Remastered
- Normal
- $5.26
- Foil
- $5.95
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $14.13
Secret Lair Drop
- Foil
- $10.40
- Normal
- $3.89
- Foil
- $9.72
- Normal
- $6.56
- Foil
- $133.14
Promo
War of the Spark Promos
- Normal
- $4.79
- Foil
- $7.07
Promo
War of the Spark Promos
- Foil
- $11.37
Promo
War of the Spark Promos
- Foil
- $274.99
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Karn, the Great Creator. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
