Fungi by pamymaf

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghave, Guru of Spores

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This Abzan deck is helmed by Ghave, Guru of Spores, executing a synergistic +1/+1 counters and aristocrats combo-midrange strategy. The primary game plan revolves around leveraging Ghave's dual activated abilities to continuously cycle +1/+1 counters and 1/1 Saproling tokens. By pairing Ghave with counter modifiers like Hardened Scales, Conclave Mentor, Cathars' Crusade, or Doubling Season, and mana-generating sacrifice outlets like Ashnod's Altar, Utopia Mycon, or Pitiless Plunderer, the deck forms infinite sacrifice and token loops. These loops immediately translate into table-wide victory through aristocrat payoffs such as Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Mirkwood Bats. Supported by dense ramp and token mana dorks like Cryptolith Rite and Jaheira, Friend of the Forest, the deck consistently establishes its operational core by Turn 5 and threatens lethal onset by Turn 6. While vulnerable to activated ability shutdown and board wipes, high functional redundancy provides strong resilience and backup go-wide combat routes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Chocobo Knights
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conclave Mentor
  • 1 Concordant Crossroads
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cryptic Trilobite
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Deathspore Thallid
  • 1 Deceptive Landscape
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elven Chorus
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fecundity
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Ghave, Guru of Spores
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Good-Fortune Unicorn
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Guiding Hydra
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Knight of Wundagore
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Loading Zone
  • 1 Lush Portico
  • 1 Matt Murdock, Justice Seeker
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pallid Mycoderm
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Psychotrope Thallid
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Selfless Police Captain
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shang-Chi, Martial Mentor
  • 1 Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu
  • 1 Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte
  • 1 Slimefoot, the Stowaway
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Species Specialist
  • 1 Sphere Grid
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thanos, Death's Consort
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Topiary Lecturer
  • 1 Training Regimen
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Utopia Mycon
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat