Guru Agave and the Temple of Doom by user8416071

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghave, Guru of Spores

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This Abzan deck focuses on combo and aristocrats strategies centered around Ghave, Guru of Spores. The primary game plan leverages dense fast mana—including Chrome Mox, Mox Diamond, Lotus Petal, and one-mana mana dorks—to deploy Ghave ahead of curve on Turn 3 or 4. Once on the battlefield, Ghave synergizes with counter and token multipliers like Doubling Season, Branching Evolution, and Cathars' Crusade alongside sacrifice outlets like Ashnod's Altar to generate infinite mana, infinite 1/1 Saproling tokens, and infinite +1/+1 counters. The deck finishes games on the same turn using aristocrat drain triggers from Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim, or direct damage via Walking Ballista. Protection pieces like Grand Abolisher and Ranger-Captain of Eos safeguard the winning turn. While the deck boasts high mana velocity and explosive win lines, its reactive disruption is sparse, making proactive race and protection sequencing essential.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Ghave, Guru of Spores
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hamza, Guardian of Arashin
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Shroofus Sproutsire
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Species Specialist
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Mycotyrant
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat