Esper Karn (v3)

Standard* Artifact WUB (Esper)

himperson

Land (24)

• 4x Drowned Catacomb
• 2x Glacial Fortress
• 3x Godless Shrine
• 4x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 4x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Plains
• 1x Swamp
• 4x Watery Grave

Instant (12)

• 3x Cast Down
• 3x Moment of Craving
• 4x Mortify
• 2x Vraska's Contempt

Planeswalker (10)

• 4x Dovin, Grand Arbiter
• 4x Karn, Scion of Urza
• 2x Tezzeret, Artifice Master

Creature (2)

• 2x Suspicious Bookcase

Artifact (11)

• 4x Fountain of Renewal
• 2x Sentinel Totem
• 1x Sorcerous Spyglass
• 4x Treasure Map  ^Flip

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Karn's Temporal Sundering

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Oath of Teferi

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Sideboard

Artifact (3)

• 1x Fountain of Renewal
• 1x Silent Gravestone
• 1x Sorcerous Spyglass

Sorcery (3)

• 2x River's Rebuke
• 1x Sleep

Creature (4)

• 2x Chamber Sentry
• 1x Chromium, the Mutable
• 1x Dream Eater

Instant (5)

• 2x Disdainful Stroke
• 3x Negate

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Maybeboard

Instant (3)

• 1x Admiral's Order
• 1x Chemister's Insight
• 1x Root Snare

Creature (3)

• 1x Aviation Pioneer
• 1x Gleaming Barrier
• 1x Sailor of Means

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Hadana's Climb  ^Flip

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Deck is looking to proactively build Karnstructs.

Treasure Map functions to provide artifact count and fix draws.

Sentinel Totem does work vs Golgari graveyard and phoenix/jump start antics. The added scry is non-negligible: Due to the amount of scrying the deck can do, it sees a significant amount of cards and helps dig for answers.

Transmogrifying wand is our removal for any creature that we can't bulldoze through.

Sai makes mediocre artifacts count double toward Karnstructs and hold off early pressure.

Zahid is just an incidental beater with artifact synergy.

My opponents have asked if I'd considered other color combinations and this is my response: While switching into white and/or black gives me a significantly better removal suite and allows me to forgo low-quality artifacts, the deck changes from a proactive build to a reactive one and moves the focus of Karn from the centerpiece to the finisher. A control deck will win through its repeated answers and exhausting the opponent of resources; Karn is there just to bring their life total from 20 to 0 and that's not how I wanted to use him.

Suggestions/critique welcome especially with regards to sideboard.

Deck needs answers to aggro, considering fog and/or sleep to buy time.

Top Ranked	Achieved #62 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 2 Mythic Rares 29 - 5 Rares 16 - 5 Uncommons 3 - 3 Commons
Cards	61
Avg. CMC	2.73
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Emblem Tezzeret, Artifice Master, Thopter 1/1 C, Treasure