Abran Deck by dr_dontworry

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghave, Guru of Spores

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan Aristocrats and +1/+1 counters combo deck commanded by Ghave, Guru of Spores. The strategy revolves around generating exponential token and counter loops by pairing Ghave with sacrifice outlets, counter enhancers, and death-trigger payoffs. Dense low-cost ramp accelerates Ghave onto the battlefield by Turn 4, setting up decisive infinite drain loops on Turn 5 using key pieces like Ashnod's Altar, Chatterfang, Squirrel General, and Pitiless Plunderer alongside drain engines such as Zulaport Cutthroat and Bastion of Remembrance. The deck features massive functional redundancy among counter doublers and token multipliers, allowing it to pivot between combo kills and wide combat pressure. However, its primary weaknesses lie in a severe lack of raw card draw engines and minimal reactive interaction outside creature removal. Without Skullclamp or active tutors, the deck relies heavily on natural top-decks and remains vulnerable to well-timed spot removal against its multi-permanent combo assemblies.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Black Market
• 1 Bloodspore Thrinax
• 1 Bruna, the Fading Light
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Cathars' Crusade
• 1 Champion of Lambholt
• 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1 Chord of Calling
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Conclave Mentor
• 1 Corpsejack Menace
• 1 Cruel Celebrant
• 1 Cryptic Trilobite
• 1 Cryptolith Rite
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Death's Presence
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Deathspore Thallid
• 1 Doubling Season
• 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1 Enduring Vitality
• 1 Enlightened Tutor
• 1 Essence Warden
• 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fleshtaker
• 8 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Gardenize
• 1 Ghave, Guru of Spores
• 1 Gisela, the Broken Blade
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Goldnight Commander
• 1 Grave Pact
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Insidious Roots
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Ivy Lane Denizen
• 1 Juniper Order Ranger
• 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1 Nemata, Primeval Warden
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 6 Plains
• 1 Primal Vigor
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Saproling Symbiosis
• 1 Scute Swarm
• 1 Second Harvest
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sprout Swarm
• 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Temple of Plenty
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Teysa Karlov
• 1 The Earth Crystal
• 1 The Mycotyrant
• 1 Utopia Mycon
• 1 Utopia Sprawl
• 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
• 1 Winding Constrictor
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat