Ghave

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghave, Guru of Spores

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Abzan Aristocrats combo strategy commanded by Ghave, Guru of Spores. It leverages Ghave's unique modular abilities to convert mana into +1/+1 counters and creature tokens interchangeably. By combining Ghave with sacrifice mana generators such as Ashnod's Altar or Phyrexian Altar and counter doublers or enhancers like Good-Fortune Unicorn, Hardened Scales, or Cathars' Crusade, the deck creates infinite mana, tokens, and death triggers. These loops instantly finish games via drain outlets like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Corpse Knight. Supported by a robust mana dork foundation, premium Abzan removal, asymmetric attrition tools like Aura Shards and Dictate of Erebos, and an independent backup line in Mikaeus, the Unhallowed plus Triskelion, the deck exerts strong board control while threatening compact instant-speed wins.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrupt Decay
• 1 Altar of Dementia
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Aura Mutation
• 1 Aura Shards
• 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Carrion Feeder
• 1 Cathars' Crusade
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conclave Mentor
• 1 Corpse Knight
• 1 Corpsejack Menace
• 1 Cruel Celebrant
• 1 Cryptic Trilobite
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Deathreap Ritual
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dictate of Erebos
• 1 Eladamri's Call
• 1 Eldritch Evolution
• 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 5 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Gavony Township
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Geralf's Messenger
• 1 Ghave, Guru of Spores
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Good-Fortune Unicorn
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Hollowmurk Siege
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Karn's Bastion
• 1 Lesser Masticore
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Mikaeus, the Lunarch
• 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Murmuring Bosk
• 1 Mycoloth
• 1 Naturalize
• 1 Nature's Claim
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Nemata, Primeval Warden
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Phyrexian Altar
• 4 Plains
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Renata, Called to the Hunt
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
• 1 Stroke of Midnight
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Temple of Plenty
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Tendershoot Dryad
• 1 Teysa Karlov
• 1 Triskelion
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Winding Constrictor
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat