Karn, Reflective Silver

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Karn, Reflective Silver
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Karn2.png
Full Name Karn, Reflective Silver
Affinities Colorless
Origin set Puzzle Masters Puzzle Masters
Cost 850 Mana Crystals
Stats (max level)
Health 117
Deck limits Creatures 6  ·  Spells 4  ·  Supports 9
Mana bonuses Icon W.png +2 · Icon U.png +2 · Icon B.png +2 · Icon R.png +2 · Icon G.png +2
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, Reflective Silver is a colorless golem Planeswalker, introduced in May 2022. Karn Reflective is the final Planeswalker release accompanying the Puzzle Masters card set.

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, average creature limit, high support limit, and low spell limit. His mana bonus total is the highest in the game, and evenly balanced across all five colors. As usual with mana bonuses, being good at everything means not being particularly good at anything; even the Origins Planeswalkers' bonuses are higher on their own color. Despite the bonuses being twice those of his predecessor, they represent potential difficulty because they can not be raised permanently without outside aid, as Karn, Scion of Urza's can. They can be raised temporarily, though, and unlike Mana Field and other such means to raise mana bonuses, which are not reliable, his ability can be used at the beginning of turn, before swaps are made.

Karn 2's abilities are all either temporary or conditional; the latter dependent on significant or stifling achievements.

He has the ability to gain mana on artifact cards in hand. He can temporarily buff his artifact creatures and mana bonuses. He can exile all of the token supports on the board, and take control of them, if he has 20 artifacts on the board.

Ironically, Karn 2 is not an irrational choice to go up against Karn 1, since 2 can Shatterstorm the supports that Karn Scion runs to fulfill the conditions of his ultimate ability, and then bring them back to use against their former owner.

Planeswalkers with problematic mana will always lose that handicap in the Colors of Magic event, but Karn 2 additionally is powerful against flurries of the Paladin Class card that has become popular in top tiers of that event.

Karn, Reflective Silver is the second of a handful of playable Planeswalkers in MtGPQ which embody Karn at different points in his life.

Stats

Karn, Reflective Silver - level 60
Mana bonus Deck limits Health Leveling cost
White +2 Blue +2 Black +2 Red +2 Green +2 Loyalty 0 Creatures  6 Spells  4 Supports  9 117 323,750 Mana Runes
All level details 1-60          Up-down-arrow-icon.png Click to
Level

cost

Mana bonus Deck limits Health Abilities
Icon W.png Icon U.png Icon B.png Icon R.png Icon G.png Icon L.png Creature-Icon.png Spell-Icon.png Support-Icon.png 1 2 3
1-5

3410Rune.png

0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 6 32 AbilityLev0.png AbilityLev0.png AbilityLev0.png
3 1 7
35
+1 0 0 0 0 0
38
6-10

11390Rune.png

AbilityLev1.png
41
4 1 7
44
AbilityLev1.png
11-15

20830Rune.png

47
1 +1 0 0 0 0
50
4 2 7
53
16-20

33590Rune.png

AbilityLev1.png
1 1 +1 0 0 0
56
AbilityLev2.png
21-25

49690Rune.png

59
4 2 8
62
1 1 1 +1 0 0
65
26-30

69070Rune.png

AbilityLev2.png
68
5 2 8
71
AbilityLev2.png
31-35

91630Rune.png

74
1 1 1 1 +2 0
77
5 3 8
36-40

117370Rune.png

AbilityLev3.png
80
1 1 1 +2 2 0
83
AbilityLev3.png
41-45

146230Rune.png

86
5 3 9
89
1 1 +2 2 2 0
93
46-50

178150Rune.png

AbilityLev3.png
97
6 3 9
101
AbilityLev4.png
51-55

226950Rune.png

105
1 +2 2 2 2 0
6 4 9
109
56-60

323750Rune.png

AbilityLev4.png
113
+2 2 2 2 2 0
117
AbilityLev4.png

Abilities

1: Silver Reflection
Ability Level PW level Icon L.png Effect
AbilityLev1.png 6-19 7 Create a Silver Reflection Token.
AbilityLev2.png 20-35 7 Create 2 Silver Reflection Token. The first Artifact card in your hand gains 3 mana.
AbilityLev3.png 36-45 7 Create 2 Silver Reflection Tokens. The first Artifact card in your hand gains 6 mana.
AbilityLev4.png 46 7 Create 2 Silver Reflection Tokens. The first Artifact card in your hand without mana gains half of its mana.
2: Blessed by the Suns
Ability Level PW level Icon L.png Effect
AbilityLev1.png 10-25 13 Increase your mana bonuses by 2 until end of turn. Artifact creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
AbilityLev2.png 26-39 13 Increase your mana bonuses by 2 until end of turn. Artifact creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
AbilityLev3.png 40-55 13 Increase your mana bonuses by 2 until end of turn. Artifact creatures you control get +2/+2 until the beginning of your next turn.
AbilityLev4.png 56 13 Increase your mana bonuses by 3 until end of turn. Artifact creatures you control get +2/+2 until the beginning of your next turn.
3: Chromatic Blast
Ability Level PW level Icon L.png Effect
AbilityLev1.png 16-29 16 Exile an opposing Artifact card at random. Then: If you control 20 or more Artifact cards, including their reinforcements — Exile all TokenToken supports you control. Move all Support cards from all exiles to play under your control.
AbilityLev2.png 30-45 16 Exile an opposing Artifact card at random. Then: If you control 20 or more Artifact cards, including their reinforcements — Exile all TokenToken supports on the board. Move all Support cards from all exiles to play under your control.
AbilityLev3.png 46-59 16 Exile an opposing Artifact card at random. If you can't: Exile the first Artifact card from your library. Then: If you control 20 or more Artifact cards, including their reinforcements — Exile all TokenToken supports on the board. Move all Support cards from all exiles to play under your control.
AbilityLev4.png 60 16 Exile an opposing Artifact card at random. If you can't: Exile the first Artifact Support card from your library. Then: If you control 20 or more Artifact cards, including their reinforcements — Exile all TokenToken supports on the board. Move all Support cards from all exiles to play under your control.


Silver Reflection

Colorless Support Card, 2 Shields, Token, Can’t Be Reinforced "When you match this support's gem: CrystalizeCrystalize target support."

This ability is strong, if conditional removal, but it should not be counted on for mana. Like all Mana FieldMana Field abilities that affect gems (or any other gem-affecting abilities that are activated during the Gem Matching step), the Silver Reflection Token's Crystalized gems are more likely to make matches possible for the opponent.

Story

There used to be a plane of mathematical perfection built over the silver that reflected the light of four suns. Karn, its creator, used to admire the artifacts beneath the multiple sun sky, manipulating the flow of mana with his silver mechanical arms.

<< Karn, Scion of Urza's Story
>> Karn, Living Legacy's Story

Starting Deck

Card name Type Cost Color Rarity Set
Myr Propagator Missing card data
Treasure Vault Missing card data
Mimic Missing card data
Greataxe Missing card data
Leather Armor Missing card data 
Chief of the Foundry Creatures (3/4) 11 Colorless Uncommon Origins ORI 
Evolving Wilds Spells 3 Colorless Common Origins ORI 
Runed Servitor Creatures (2/2) 6 Colorless Common Origins ORI 
Veteran's Sidearm Supports (2) 6 Colorless Common Origins ORI 
Prism Ring Supports (4) 6 Colorless Common Origins ORI