The Creeping Garden: Ghave's Spore-Tacular Army by ElectricN3RD

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghave, Guru of Spores

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan token-aristocrats strategy commanded by Ghave, Guru of Spores. The game plan revolves around generating Saprolings and Fungus creatures, multiplying +1/+1 counters, and converting creature deaths into life drain and card advantage. Early turns focus on establishing mana fixing and ramp through green spells and signets. By turn 4–5, Ghave enters to serve as a modular engine, exchanging counters for 1/1 tokens and sacrificing creatures to grow threats at instant speed. Card flow engines like Skullclamp, Moldervine Reclamation, and Shamanic Revelation keep the hand full. The deck closes games around turn 7–9 either through wide combat buffed by Cathars' Crusade, Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest, and Tendershoot Dryad, or through aristocrat life loss via Mirkwood Bats, Bastion of Remembrance, and Blood Artist. It boasts strong grind potential but carries vulnerabilities to board wipes and a lean 30-land base.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Camaraderie
• 1 Cankerbloom
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Cathars' Crusade
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1 Clever Concealment
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corpsejack Menace
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Deathreap Ritual
• 1 Deathspore Thallid
• 1 Deathsprout
• 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
• 1 Elvish Farmer
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farseek
• 9 Forest
• 1 Fungal Plots
• 1 Fungal Rebirth
• 1 Fungal Sprouting
• 1 Gavony Township
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Generous Patron
• 1 Ghave, Guru of Spores
• 1 Golgari Germination
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Golgari Signet
• 1 Good-Fortune Unicorn
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Idol of Oblivion
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Karn's Bastion
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Moldervine Reclamation
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Mycoloth
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Necrogenesis
• 1 Nemata, Primeval Warden
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Pallid Mycoderm
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 4 Plains
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Psychotrope Thallid
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Renata, Called to the Hunt
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Saproling Migration
• 1 Savage Thallid
• 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1 Shamanic Revelation
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Slimefoot, the Stowaway
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spore Swarm
• 1 Sporecrown Thallid
• 1 Sporesower Thallid
• 1 Sporeweb Weaver
• 1 Sporoloth Ancient
• 1 Sprout Swarm
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tendershoot Dryad
• 1 Thallid
• 1 Thallid Shell-Dweller
• 1 Thallid Soothsayer
• 1 The Mycotyrant
• 1 Thelon of Havenwood
• 1 Utopia Mycon
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Vitaspore Thallid
• 1 Winding Constrictor
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat