ghave_paper by doublevp

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghave, Guru of Spores

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This is an Abzan creature-token deck built around Ghave, Guru of Spores, sacrifice outlets, +1/+1 counters, and death triggers. Its strongest ordinary engine is Ghave, Guru of Spores with Skullclamp: spare mana becomes Saprolings and then two cards per equipped sacrifice. Hardened Scales, Winding Constrictor, Good-Fortune Unicorn, Conclave Mentor, and Renata, Called to the Hunt improve the counter plan, while Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion of Remembrance, Poison-Tip Archer, and Slimefoot, the Stowaway turn deaths into pressure. The deck has solid creature and permanent removal, but little access to its exact pieces and no stack interaction. Its five-mana commander, singleton engine pieces, tapped lands, and limited protection make the deck a midgame value strategy rather than a fast combo deck. It can overwhelm a table with a large board and Overwhelming Stampede or End-Raze Forerunners, but a reliable exact table kill is not established.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abzan Ascendancy
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Armored Scrapgorger
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Attrition
• 1 Aura Shards
• 1 Austere Command
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conclave Mentor
• 1 Corpse Knight
• 1 Cruel Celebrant
• 1 Cryptolith Rite
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
• 1 End-Raze Forerunners
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Evolutionary Leap
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fecundity
• 8 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Ghave, Guru of Spores
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Good-Fortune Unicorn
• 1 Grismold, the Dreadsower
• 1 Gyre Sage
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Idol of Oblivion
• 1 Incubation Druid
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Ivy Lane Denizen
• 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
• 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1 Moldervine Reclamation
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mycoloth
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Orzhov Basilica
• 1 Overwhelming Stampede
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 3 Plains
• 1 Poison-Tip Archer
• 1 Prowling Geistcatcher
• 1 Renata, Called to the Hunt
• 1 Retribution of the Ancients
• 1 Return to the Ranks
• 1 Rishkar's Expertise
• 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Seedborn Muse
• 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1 Selfless Spirit
• 1 Shamanic Revelation
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Skyclave Shadowcat
• 1 Slimefoot, the Stowaway
• 1 Smothering Abomination
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Species Specialist
• 1 Spore Frog
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Temple of Plenty
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Tendershoot Dryad
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Winding Constrictor
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat