Artifact man
Commanded by Karn, Gilded Guardian
101 cards in the deck, 1 on the bench. Played 6 tracked games.
How it has actually done
These are results from Commander games recorded at a table, not a rating. See commander stats worth tracking and what mmr means in magic, which rates the deck rather than its pilot.
Bracket 3: Upgraded
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Game Changers in this list
Running 1 stax piece. See what stax means.
- 1 Game Changer — any at all puts a deck at Bracket 3 or above
What it's built out of
Measured against the Balanced Midrange blueprint. Counts overlap and sum past 100, because a card counts toward every job it does, which is how deck builders count. See the 100-card commander deck template.
Slot by slot: 4 slots are outside their band, 5 inside
| Slot | In the deck | Target | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lands | 36 | 37 | On target |
| Ramp | 21 | 10 | 11 over |
| Card advantage | 18 | 10 | 8 over |
| Spot removal | 1 | 8 | 7 short |
| Board wipes | 0 | 3 | 3 short |
| Creatures | 29 | 28 | On target |
| Recursion | 3 | 3 | On target |
| Protection | 4 | 3 | On target |
| Tutors | 1 | 2 | On target |
| Artifacts | 53 | — | No target |
| Enchantments | 4 | — | No target |
| Instants | 4 | — | No target |
| Sorceries | 1 | — | No target |
| Counterspells | 4 | — | No target |
| Token makers | 16 | — | No target |
| Sacrifice outlets | 5 | — | No target |
| Stax pieces | 1 | — | No target |
Mana curve
Average mana value 3.51 across 65 nonland cards, against a target of 3.54. More on what makes a good curve and on building the mana base.
- 0-1 5
- 2 19
- 3 16
- 4 12
- 5 3
- 6 3
- 7+ 7
The written read
An AI review of this specific list, generated by its owner. Bracket 3: Upgraded.
The deck leverages Ashad as an artifact engine: it turns early artifact plays and recursion into incremental advantage and fuel for sacrifice/blink loops, then closes by cheating or recurring a large artifact threat or converting artifacts to mana (and then to kills) via a sacrifice combo. In practice you win by either resolving a massive indestructible/ infect/strike artifact threat or assembling an artifacts‑to‑mana sac loop to drain opponents or hard‑cast game‑ending colorless threats.
The decklist
101 cards, grouped by the main job each one does. Every name links to its own page, with its win rate, the commanders it's most played under, and the colors it turns up in.
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- 1 Archway of Innovation
- 1 Cascade Bluffs
- 1 Castle Doom
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crumbling Necropolis
- 1 Dark Fortress
- 1 Darkwater Catacombs
- 1 Dimir Aqueduct
- 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
- 1 Inventors' Fair
- 4 Island
- 1 Karn's Bastion
- 4 Mountain
- 1 Oscorp Industries
- 1 Path of Ancestry
- 1 Reliquary Tower
- 1 Rogue's Passage
- 1 Shadowblood Ridge
- 1 Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
- 1 Sulfur Falls
- 1 Sunken Hollow
- 4 Swamp
- 1 Tangled Islet
- 1 Temple of the False God
- 1 Terramorphic Expanse
- 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
- 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
Ramp 20
- 1 Arc Reactor
- 1 Arcane Signet
- 1 Armor Wars
- 1 Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass
- 1 Cursed Mirror
- 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
- 1 Fellwar Stone
- 1 Foundry Inspector
- 1 Iron Lad, Young Avenger
- 1 Midnight Clock
- 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
- 1 Phial of Galadriel
- 1 Relic of Sauron
- 1 Shuri's Fabricator
- 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
- 1 Solemn Simulacrum
- 1 Sonic Screwdriver
- 1 Steelswarm Operator
- 1 Thought Vessel
- 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
Card Advantage 12
Tokens 8
Artifact 5
Protection 4
Sacrifice Outlet 3
Counterspell 2
Recursion 2
Sorcery 1
Stax 1
Spot Removal 1
Still identifying 1
1 on the bench (sideboard and wishlist), outside the 101
Sideboard 1 not counted
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Commander 1 Karn, Gilded Guardian Deck 1 Animation Module 1 Arc Reactor 1 Arcane Denial 1 Arcane Signet 1 Archway of Innovation 1 Armor Wars 1 Ashad, the Lone Cyberman 1 Baleful Strix 1 Bolas's Citadel 1 Cascade Bluffs 1 Castle Doom 1 Chief of the Foundry 1 Chrome Dome 1 Command Tower 1 Counterspell 1 Crumbling Necropolis 1 Cryptothrall 1 Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass 1 Cult of Skaro 1 Curse of the Swine 1 Cursed Mirror 1 Cybermen Squadron 1 Dark Fortress 1 Darkwater Catacombs 1 Davros, Dalek Creator 1 Dimir Aqueduct 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut 1 Esoteric Duplicator 1 Fateful Discovery 1 Fellwar Stone 1 Foot Chopper 1 Foundry Inspector 1 Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant 1 Golbez, Crystal Collector 1 Great Hall of the Citadel 1 Heartstone 1 Inventors' Fair 1 Iron Lad, Young Avenger 1 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade 4 Island 1 Jackdaw 1 Kappa Cannoneer 1 Karn's Bastion 1 Lightning Greaves 1 Lodestone Golem 1 Long River's Pull 1 Mana Leak 1 Mechan Assembler 1 Metalwork Colossus 1 Meteor Golem 1 Midnight Clock 1 Mishra's Bauble 4 Mountain 1 Myr Enforcer 1 Mystic Forge 1 Of the Coast 1 Oni-Cult Anvil 1 Ornithopter of Paradise 1 Oscorp Industries 1 Panther Robot 1 Path of Ancestry 1 Phial of Galadriel 1 Relic of Sauron 1 Reliquary Tower 1 Rogue's Passage 1 Sculpting Steel 1 Shadowblood Ridge 1 Sharding Sphinx 1 Shimmer Myr 1 Shrine of the Forsaken Gods 1 Shuri's Fabricator 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor 1 Smoke Bomb 1 Solemn Simulacrum 1 Sonic Screwdriver 1 Steelswarm Operator 1 Sulfur Falls 1 Sunken Hollow 4 Swamp 1 Swiftfoot Boots 1 Tangled Islet 1 Temple of the False God 1 Terramorphic Expanse 1 The Toymaker's Trap 1 Thopter Spy Network 1 Thought Vessel 1 Threefold Thunderhulk 1 Triplicate Titan 1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore 1 Vineglimmer Snarl 1 Wayfarer's Bauble Sideboard 1 Exile
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