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Karn, Scion of Urza

Karn, Scion of Urza is a colorless golem Planeswalker, introduced in April 2018, a month before the release of his origin card set, Dominaria.

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Full Name Karn, Scion of Urza
Affinities Colorless
Origin set Dominaria Dominaria
Cost 850 Mana Crystals
Stats (max level)
Health 120
Deck limits Creatures 5  ·  Spells 5  ·  Supports 6
Mana bonuses Icon W.png +1 · Icon U.png +1 · Icon B.png +1 · Icon R.png +1 · Icon G.png +1
Leveling cost 323,750 Mana Runes
Planeswalkers   (Infobox · Data)
Planeswalker series
Karn (golem)
Karn, Scion of Urza  Colorless Karn, Scion of Urza
Karn, Reflective Silver  Colorless Karn, Reflective Silver
Karn, Living Legacy  Colorless Karn, Living Legacy

Karn is an unusual Planeswalker, to say the least. He has many significant weaknesses, but powerful and/or unique abilities, some of which work to turn his weaknesses into strengths, and all extremely useful. Being colorless, Karn can generally include cards of any color in his decks, as long as they share a color with the event node on which he plays. He has high health and below average deck limits. His mana bonuses are perfectly balanced, but in total, as low as Origins Planeswalkers. All of his abilities are quite inexpensive; his first is tied for second cheapest, and the second and third are the cost of many Planeswalkers' first and second abilities. The other two abilities that cost 4 Loyalty are the first abilities of Daxos the Returned and Jace, Mirror Mage.

Like Sarkhan Unbroken, he can also receive a boost to bis bonuses of the colors of a card, but he Fetches the card rather than draws, and the bonus is permanent. His ultimate (ult) creates a strong golem TokenToken that can gain Prevent DamagePrevent Damage while 3 supports are controlled. His abilities have a minor Exile theme, including returning cards from exile to hand with a small mana boost, and fetching a card from the library and exiling others.

Karn, Scion of Urza is the first of a small number of playable Planeswalkers in MtGPQ which embody Karn at different points in his life.

Contents

Stats

Karn, Scion of Urza - level 60
Mana bonus Deck limits Health Leveling cost
  +1   +1   +1   +1   +1   0    5    5    6 120 323,750  
All level details 1-60            Click to
Level

cost

Mana bonus Deck limits Health Abilities
                  1 2 3
1-5

3410 

-1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 3 3 4 20      
4 3 4
23
-1 0 -1 -1 -1 0
27
6-10

11390 

 
30
4 4 4
33
 
11-15

20830 

-1 0 0 -1 -1 0
36
4 4 5
40
16-20

33590 

 
43
-1 0 0 0 -1 0
46
 
21-25

49690 

49
5 4 5
52
-1 0 0 0 0 0
56
26-30

69070 

 
59
-1 0 0 0 +1 0
 
31-35

91630 

62
0 0 0 0 +1 0
65
5 5 5
69
36-40

117370 

 
72
0 +1 0 0 +1 0
75
 
41-45

146230 

79
5 5 6
83
0 +1 +1 0 +1 0
87
46-50

178150 

 
91
95
 
51-55

226950 

100
0 +1 +1 +1 +1 0
105
110
56-60

323750 

 
115
+1 +1 +1 +1 +1 0
120
 

Abilities

1: Thran Legacy
Ability Level PW level   Effect
  6-19 4 Pick one of the next 2 cards of your library. Fetch that card and Exile the others. If it was a colorless card, your mana bonuses are increased by 1. Each mana bonus can't be raised by this ability more than 3 times.
  20-35 4 Pick one of the next 3 cards of your library. Fetch that card and Exile the others. If it was a colorless card, your mana bonuses are increased by 1. Each mana bonus can't be raised by this ability more than 3 times.
  36-49 4 Pick one of the next 3 cards of your library. Fetch that card and Exile the others. If it was a colorless card, your mana bonuses are increased by 1. If not, your mana bonus in that card's color is increased by 1. Each mana bonus can't be raised by this ability more than 3 times.
  50-60 4 Pick one of the next 3 cards of your library. Fetch that card and Exile the others. If it was a colorless card, your mana bonuses are increased by 1. If not, your mana bonus in that card's color is increased by 2. Each mana bonus can't be raised by this ability more than 3 times.
2: Tolarian Legacy
Ability Level PW level   Effect
  10-25 8 Pick one of the first 2 cards from your Exile. It gains 4 mana.
  26-39 8 Pick one of the first 3 cards from your Exile. It gains 6 mana.
  40-55 8 Pick one of the first 2 different cards from your Exile. They gain 6 mana.
  56-60 8 Pick one of the first 3 different cards from your Exile. They gain 6 mana.
3: Argentum's Legacy
Ability Level PW level   Effect
  16-29 12 Create a Karn's Minor Construct Token  [8/8 with "While you control 3 or more supports this creature gains Prevent Damage ."].
  30-45 12 Create a Karn's Construct Token  [8/8 with "While you control 3 or more supports this creature gains Prevent Damage . At the end of your turn, if you control 2 or more supports, return the first support from your graveyard to your hand and it gains 6 mana."].
  46-59 12 Create an Improved Karn's Construct Token  [12/12 with "While you control 3 or more supports this creature gains Prevent Damage . At the end of your turn, if you control 2 or more supports, return the first support from your graveyard to your hand and it gains 8 mana."].
  60 12 Create an Improved Major Karn's Construct Token  [12/12 with "While you control 3 or more supports, this creature gains Prevent Damage . At the end of your turn, if you control 2 or more supports, a support you control gains 2 shield, then return the first support from your graveyard to your hand and it gains 10 mana."].


Story

The Planeswalker Venser sacrificed himself to free Karn’s mind and body, but Mirrodin, a plane Karn himself had created, was lost. Grief-stricken by the fate of his world and the death of his friend, Karn travels the Multiverse, retracing his steps to ensure the Phyrexian contagion has not taken hold elsewhere. Karn is constantly searching for more weapons he can deploy against the Phyrexians—which has brought him back once again to Dominaria.

>> Karn, Reflective Silver's Story

Starting Deck

Card name Type Cost Color Rarity Set 
Howling Golem   (4/5) 11       DOM   
Bloodtallow Candle   (3) 9       DOM   
Navigator's Compass   (2) 9       DOM   
Jousting Lance   (2) 10       DOM   
Auramancer   (2/2) 10       ORI 
Artificer's Epiphany   2       ORI 
Titan's Strength   4       ORI 
Timberpack Wolf   (2/2) 8       ORI 
Weight of the Underworld   8       ORI 
Gilded Lotus   (2) 6       DOM