I think you’re close with your 2nd snippet, but you should be using meta_value_num instead of meta_key_num.
$query->set( 'meta_key', 'comment_karma' );
$query->set( 'orderby', 'meta_value_num' );
See the WP_Query orderby docs for more info.
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