Karn the Destroyer

Commander / EDH Artifact Combo Control Group Slug Infinite Combo Stax

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Artifact (38)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Pariah's Shield
• 1x Phyrexian Processor
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Prototype Portal
• 1x Ratchet Bomb
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Voltaic Key

Land (42)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blinkmoth Nexus
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cathedral of War
• 1x Cloudpost
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Dread Statuary
• 1x Eye of Ugin
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Glimmerpost
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x High Market
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Mirrodin's Core
• 1x Mishra's Factory
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 1x Radiant Fountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sanctum of Ugin
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 1x Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
• 1x Stalking Stones
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tomb of the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Urza's Mine
• 1x Urza's Power Plant
• 1x Urza's Tower
• 1x Vesuva
• 9x Wastes

Commander (1)

Creature (17)

• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Darksteel Colossus
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Lodestone Golem
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Platinum Emperion
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Voltaic Construct
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Sorcery (1)

• 1x All is Dust

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Karn, Silver Golem is a very unassuming general to somebody who has either never played against him or doesn't know any of his combos beyond Mycosynth Lattice. He acts as an enabler for infinite mana, land destruction and win condition with a bunch of high cost artifacts. He is also very resilient as most people will not run artifact hate that can kill your entire board. Your biggest fear as the pilot of this deck is Merciless Eviction as it can get around darksteel forge and will basically kill you late in the game. With all this in mind, let's move onto the explanation.

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Karn, Silver Golem + Mycosynth Lattice : The most well known combo in the deck and will allow you to kill everybody's lands as long as you have the mana for it.

Karn, Silver Golem + Voltaic Construct : This combo plus any rock that produces 3 or more mana will allow you to produce infinite mana.

Smokestack + Sundial of the Infinite : Add a counter to Smokestack then end your turn while the second ability is on the stack and you don't have to sac anything while everybody else still has to.

Spine of Ish Sah + Trading Post : Draw engine that also allows you to recur the destruction ability of the spine.

Metalworker + Staff of Domination : As long as you have enough artifacts in your hand to net one mana, you will have infinite mana to draw your deck with.

Stuffy Doll + Pariah's Shield : You take no damage and the player of your choice takes all the damage that would be dealt to you.

Krark-Clan Ironworks + Spine of Ish Sah : Generate mana and recur the spine which you can then cast at a reduced cost.

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Now to look at how you turn all these combos into a win.

Blightsteel Colossus: Use him to slowly beat your opponents to death or to kill them in one hit after they lost everything.

Myr Battlesphere : Same idea as before except you may have to hit them more than once.

Prototype Portal: Put a fatty under this and use Clock of Omens to create as many tokens as you can in one turn.

Karn, Silver Golem: Turn all your artifacts into creatures and swing.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Karn, Silver Golem + Voltaic Construct Metalworker + Staff of Domination Karn, Silver Golem + Mycosynth Lattice Smokestack + Sundial of the Infinite Pariah's Shield + Stuffy Doll Spine of Ish Sah + Trading Post Krark-Clan Ironworks + Spine of Ish Sah
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	21 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.69
Tokens	Copy Clone, Goat 0/1 W, Minion X/X B, Myr 1/1 C, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
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