Here's the April 2020 update for the Average Commander project. I'm focused on Karn, Silver Golem. The last update contained notes for Kozilek, the Great Distortion, but that deck barely moves and I'm digging robots right now.
As always, these are the average decks on EDHREC in both the budget (cheap) and budget (normal) configurations. I haven't been tracking the budget (expensive) configuration. These updates are comparing the cards that changed on average from one month to the next.
Karn, Silver Golem (Average Budget Deck)
There was a net increase of 13 decks in the database for Karn, with only two card changes. On average, players swapped out Wurmcoil Engine for Meteor Golem. Those two cards have bounced between each other over the past few months. The Golem makes an immediate impact (ha, see what I did there?) and (nearly always) handles the biggest problem. The other swap players made on average was to take out Scavenger Grounds for Mage-Ring Network. Perhaps Scavenger Grounds isn't doing enough to combat graveyard-based strategies and the ramp offered by Mage-Ring Network is more important. Due to the pandemic crisis, getting a consistent cost comparison between the periods is difficult. The average price of the deck increased from $563.03 to $604.03 on the day I measured it.
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Karn, Silver Golem (Cheap Budget Deck)
There was a net increase of 2 deck in the database in this category. Arcbound Crusher is back, swapping for Salvager of Ruin. Magnifying Glass came out for Planar Bridge. In a deck that is almost all permanents and makes a ton of mana, paying a total of 6 mana to investigate+sac to draw a card vs 8 mana to tutor a card directly onto the battlefield is a reasonable upgrade. Swiftfoot Boots swapped back in for Brittle Effigy, which it has been doing all year. As for land changes, Sea Gate Wreckage came out for Karn's Bastion. Also a Wastes came out for Urza's Mine. Without the other two Urza lands, this swap doesn't make any sense. I'm chocking it up to a small sample size. Again, price comparisons are inconsistent due to the pandemic, but the price for this deck changed from $101.82 to $92.41 on the day that I measured it.
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