Ghave (Abzan Dina) by nboyts

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghave, Guru of Spores

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Abzan commander deck piloted by Ghave, Guru of Spores combines aristocrats sacrifice strategies, token swarm generation, and lifegain-drain attrition. The primary game plan revolves around assembling modular token engines—leveraging Ghave's ability to convert mana and counters into Saprolings—paired with death and lifegain triggers from cards like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Dina, Soul Steeper. In the midgame, the deck compounds board presence and card advantage through engines like Moldervine Reclamation, Tendershoot Dryad, and Beledros Witherbloom, keeping hands replenished while systematically draining opposing life totals. It threatens game closure on Turn 6 through overwhelming token overrun with Blossoming Bogbeast, continuous aristocrat burn, or the deterministic infinite combo of Dina, Soul Steeper and Exquisite Blood. Robust Abzan removal provides versatile interaction against diverse threats, while proactive protection spells like Flawless Maneuver and Semester's End shield key permanents from board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Despair
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
• 1 Awakening Zone
• 1 Beledros Witherbloom
• 1 Blight Mound
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bloodghast
• 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Creakwood Liege
• 1 Culling Ritual
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
• 1 Despark
• 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
• 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
• 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
• 1 Essence Warden
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Festering Thicket
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 4 Forest
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Generous Revival
• 1 Ghave, Guru of Spores
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Grand Crescendo
• 1 Grim Backwoods
• 1 Haunted Mire
• 1 Haywire Mite
• 1 Indatha Triome
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Kwia Vigorbloom
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1 Moldervine Reclamation
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mortality Spear
• 1 Mycoloth
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Ophiomancer
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Pest Infestation
• 1 Pest Rescuer
• 3 Plains
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Sapseep Forest
• 1 Semester's End
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Silence the Echo
• 1 Skrelv's Hive
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solarium Sentry
• 1 Soul Warden
• 1 Soul's Attendant
• 1 Springbloom Druid
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Tendershoot Dryad
• 1 The Cruelty of Gix
• 1 Trudge Garden
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Veinwitch Coven
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Vigorbloom Charm
• 1 Viridescent Bog
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Well of Lost Dreams
• 1 Wight of the Reliquary
• 1 Willowdusk, Essence Seer
• 1 Witch of the Moors
• 1 Witherbloom Charm
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat