The Meat Grinder by TonsOfFun1987

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghave, Guru of Spores

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a classic Abzan tokens-and-aristocrats engine built around Ghave, Guru of Spores. The plan is to flood the board with Saprolings and other tokens, multiply them with a dense doubler package, then convert the swarm into a win through drain triggers, infinite sacrifice loops, or an overrun finisher. Ghave, Guru of Spores is a flexible on-board engine-turning +1/+1 counters into tokens and tokens back into counters-but the 99 already carries multiple independent token factories (Mycoloth, Tendershoot Dryad, Rhys the Redeemed, Chatterfang, Squirrel General, Ocelot Pride) and a full aristocrats suite, so the deck is not glued to the command zone. Primary wins are infinite drain loops off altars plus Blood Artist effects, backed by Craterhoof Behemoth, Moonshaker Cavalry, and Triumph of the Hordes for decisive combat turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Ancient Craving
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway
  • 1 Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghave, Guru of Spores
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 March of the Multitudes
  • 1 Martial Coup
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Nemata, Primeval Warden
  • 1 Ocelot Pride
  • 1 Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhys the Redeemed
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Saproling Symbiosis
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Shroofus Sproutsire
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Slimefoot, the Stowaway
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat