Karn, Argent Defender
- Mana cost
- {2}
- Type
- Legendary Artifact Creature — Golem
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 3
- Set
- Reality Fracture #279 (rare)
- Price
- $0.44 USD
Artifacts and creatures entering the battlefield don't cause abilities to trigger.
Karn, Argent Defender has 3 printings, first in Reality Fracture (2026). EDHREC ranks it #18,844 among Commander cards. It appears most in Phage the Untouchable decks (161 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Karn, Argent Defender most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Phage the Untouchable: 161 decks
- Grand Arbiter Augustin IV: 58 decks
- Winota, Joiner of Forces: 45 decks
- Arcum Dagsson: 34 decks
- Jasmine Boreal of the Seven: 29 decks
- Yisan, the Wanderer Bard: 29 decks
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician: 27 decks
- Lord of Tresserhorn: 25 decks
Often played with Karn, Argent Defender
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Replacement effects, such as a permanent entering the battlefield tapped or with counters on it, are unaffected. Abilities that apply "as [this permanent] enters" are replacement effects.
- : The trigger event doesn't have to specify artifacts or creatures entering the battlefield. For example, Tireless Tracker has an ability that says "Whenever a land you control enters, investigate." If an artifact land or creature land you control enters, that ability won't trigger. If a nonartifact, noncreature land you control enters, the ability will trigger.
- : Look at the permanent as it exists on the battlefield, taking into account continuous effects, to determine whether any triggered abilities will trigger. For example, if you control Opalescence, which says, in part, "Each other non-Aura enchantment is a creature," each enchantment will be a creature at the time it enters the battlefield and will not cause triggered abilities to trigger.
- : Triggered abilities use the word "when," "whenever," or "at." They're often written as "[Trigger condition], [effect]." Some keyword abilities are triggered abilities and will have "when," "whenever," or "at the beginning of" in their reminder text.
- : If Karn, Argent Defender and another artifact or creature enter the battlefield at the same time, neither one will cause triggered abilities to trigger when they enter the battlefield.