Ghave's Growth by Platinumdragon2

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghave, Guru of Spores

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan +1/+1 counters and tokens midrange build spearheaded by Ghave, Guru of Spores. The primary game plan revolves around deploying Ghave alongside high-efficiency counter and token multipliers such as Doubling Season, Corpsejack Menace, Court of Garenbrig, and The Earth Crystal. Ghave acts as a modular mana sink, turning open mana into instant-speed Saproling tokens and redistributing counters across the board. The deck controls the battlefield through powerful asymmetric attrition pieces like Aura Shards and Butcher of Malakir, systematically removing opposing artifacts, enchantments, and creatures as tokens enter and die. While lacking dedicated infinite mana loops like Ashnod's Altar, the deck establishes overwhelming board dominance by Turn 6 to 7. It closes out the game across two subsequent combat rounds using evasion enablers like Champion of Lambholt and exponential stat doubling from Sovereign Okinec Ahau.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Charm
  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Atomize
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Condemn
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Court of Bounty
  • 1 Court of Garenbrig
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darksteel Ingot
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Ghave, Guru of Spores
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grasslands
  • 1 Grateful Apparition
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Hour of Reckoning
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Juniper Order Ranger
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karador, Ghost Chieftain
  • 1 Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Lunarch
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Necrogenesis
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patrolling Peacemaker
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Protean Hydra
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Renegade Krasis
  • 1 Replenish
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sazh's Chocobo
  • 1 Selesnya Evangel
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
  • 1 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
  • 1 Skyknight Squire
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
  • 1 Sovereign Okinec Ahau
  • 1 Sphere Grid
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syphon Flesh
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terminus
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Tribute to the Wild
  • 1 Tromell, Seymour's Butler
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter
  • 1 Vulturous Zombie
  • 1 White Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Wooded Bastion
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Elder