Karn, Silver Golem

Gameplan

Karn turns your noncreature artifacts (mana rocks, equipment, Stax pieces) into attacking creatures, then leverages colorless ramp and artifact synergies to grind opponents out. You ramp hard with rocks, deploy taxing artifacts, and either swing wide with animated artifacts or assemble an artifact-based combo to close.

Key Cards

• Mishra's Workshop — Explosive colorless ramp that powers out Karn and expensive artifacts ahead of curve.
• Metalworker — Generates massive colorless mana from artifacts in hand, enabling huge turns.
• Voltaic Construct — Combos with Karn-animated mana rocks like Gilded Lotus for infinite colorless mana.
• Lattice combo pieces — Mycosynth Lattice plus Karn lets you animate lands and any permanent into creatures.
• Staff of Domination — With infinite mana from rock combos it draws your deck and wins on the spot.
• Unwinding Clock — Untaps your artifacts and animated rocks each turn for repeated value and mana.

Upgrade Path

Add fast colorless ramp (Mana Crypt, Sol Ring, Mishra's Workshop, Grim Monolith) and the Voltaic Construct + Gilded Lotus combo with Staff of Domination or Walking Ballista as payoffs. Tighten the artifact tutor package (Trinket Mage, Fabricate, Whir of Invention) and lean into either a Stax shell with Winter Orb/Tangle Wire or a streamlined combo line. Mycosynth Lattice unlocks Karn's most powerful interactions—turning all lands into animatable creatures and enabling Lattice-based locks.