Is it possible to make this deck sort of budget-y? least not $2,000?

yes there are budget versions, check out Karnivale (so much help needed) for example - thats a pretty cool list at around 1/4 of the cost. and keep in mind the 2.2k pricetag is for NM/M cards so it turns out alot cheaper

Greetings PepsiAddicted. I really love this deck, but it's so damn expensive! I tweaked it a little bit and made a more "reasonable budget" version. Would you be opposed if I posted the budget version I came up with on tapped out? Again love the deck, and I am a huge Karn lover. He needs more facetime in MTG. +1

Vinman ofc post it!!!! cant wait to see it ;) post a link here in the comments if you like

<3

PepsiAddicted Sweet!! here's the link.
Walking Mini-Fridges and Stuff . Read the description first obviously to get an idea of what I changed. The based the budget deck on the most updated version of your deck that is posted.

Vinman I am impressed how low the price can actually be without changing the tone of the deck completely.

(Instead of the ugly deck url you can use [ [ deck-large:28-11-14-robot-uprising ] ] without the spaces). Next time i edit the description ill put in a link to your budget version because ppl ask for budget all the time <3

PepsiAddicted thank you. Most of the price came from Mishras Workshop ($1000) but yeah. I just toned it down a little bit. Taking out Platinum Angel and Platinum Emperion make it a little more fair for opponents. Mindslaver is only fun for one person. I just have a couple of rules for myself when I make EDH decks. 1) you can have one thing that is absolutely horrible for everyone else which in this case is mycosynth lattice and Karn combo. 2) no counter spells. I like when people get to play there deck, and just worry about stuff when they hit the board and deal with it another way.

I'm still probably going to tweak the budget deck a little.

And to answer your question, no I haven't played with it yet. I'm actually contemplating either building this or a Myr tribal brew that I came up with Sharuum, the Myr Mom (Help Needed) but I'm still not sure which to build yet.

Lastly I tried the [ [ ] ] without spaces around the deck name and long URL, but it won't make it a link for some reason. I don't know what's going on. Never had that happen before.

Do not look at the tcg pricetag for this deck, you do not pay the actual M/NM price when you build a deck so its way off. The "real" price for me was like 50% of that.

Whats fun and fair depends on your playgroup ;) but i feel the same about counter, annihilator and LD.

no spaces at all, [.[lastpartofurl].]

I priced it all out using Card Kingdom Pricing. It came out to be around $1600 due to Mishra's Workshop.

That's just how I feel. My friends play some really unfair decks. So I make sure I build decks that can compete with them, but aren't TOO crazy. So they are multiplayer focused, but I crush 1v1. You can check them all out if you want! I only have been playing magic for about 3 years, so I essentially have made a deck a year. I will have made two decks this year if I build the Karn or Myr deck.

And I still can't get the link to work! I know how to use tappedout, but for some reason this just won't work =(

Yeah ill def check them out. So you play more 1v1 than mp?

My Myr deck I think needs so tweaks. But stormin Mormons, big damn heroes, and eat the rude are all finlized. The other edh decks are just deck lists I came up with. I don't actually own them.

Sometimes 1v1 when we wait for others to arrive.

PepsiAddicted doing a little hunting on gatherer and other artifact decks, do you think Arcbound Reclaimer would make a good fit into the list?

i played it in an early version of this list, it was good

Have you looked at all the great artifact stuff in magic origins? Things like Chief of the Foundry, Hangarback Walker, and Foundry of the Consuls?

Only testing Mage-Ring Network and Orbs of Warding atm. both great so far. The rest has potential too but i cant switch around too much at once and as you can see the cards-to-test list in the update section is pretty long already

Hi! I really liked your deck! Without a doubt, that you did a great job to create it! +1!

I have one question, why did you remove Staff of Domination from the deck to sideboard? It combos out with any infinite mana engine and with Metalworker. Is it to situational? The same with Rings of Brighthearth?

hey :) thx

i didnt remove those cards. the cards in the SB are very strong and/or add some really mean/fast combos to the deck. in my playgroup there are some ppl that are weak and whiny ;) and some ppl are really hardcore and want the full Karn power. so sometimes i dont play the cards in my SB and i dont use Karn to remove lands and sometimes i can go all out. it all depends on who im playing with. f.e. Dark Depths + Thespians stage (and crypt or vault or sol ring or what ever) could be a turn 2 marit lage... some ppl just dont like that

lol! :)

Now I understand that you have quite a variety of players in your playgroup and meta. I only can suggest to add cards like Pithing Needle for protection, Kuldotha Forgemaster for fun :), or even Jester's Cap for combo decks.

ill add jester's cap to the update list and test it in the modo version of this deck. i already played needle in an earlier version of this, the problem with it is the main win con with karn is still the aggro path. so i cant run too many cards with low cmc. forgemaster is in main board already ;)