Ghave, Guru of Fun!

Commander / EDH

WarIsHats

Creature (27)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Deathspore Thallid
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Ivorytusk Fortress
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Mikaeus, the Lunarch
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Nemata, Grove Guardian
• 1x Psychotrope Thallid
• 1x Sapling of Colfenor
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Sigil Captain
• 1x Slimefoot, the Stowaway
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Sporecrown Thallid
• 1x Sporemound
• 1x Sporesower Thallid
• 1x Sporoloth Ancient
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x Thelon of Havenwood
• 1x Thelonite Hermit
• 1x Utopia Mycon
• 1x Verdant Force
• 1x Verdeloth the Ancient
• 1x Winding Constrictor

Artifact (6)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Command Tower
• 8x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 6x Plains
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Instant (10)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Aura Mutation
• 1x Enlightened TutorGC
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Second Harvest
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Utter End

Commander (1)

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Fungal Plots
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Martyr's Bond
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Song of Freyalise

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Saproling Migration

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Sideboard

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Overwhelming Splendor
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Sterling Grove
• 1x Sylvan Library

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Howl of the Night Pack
• 1x Vindicate

Creature (4)

• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Triskelion

Artifact (2)

• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Phyrexian Altar

Instant (2)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Eladamri's Call

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Some of my favourite token-interactions in Magic have always been between Saprolings and their various ilk - Spores, Fungus' and even Plants. There's always a lot of ways to use decks that interact with these different types of tokens and the amount of ways to generate them is frankly staggering a lot of the time so for once I've decided to make a token EDH deck (rather than my standard combo-y/infinite-y things) and just use the classic ol' "Punch them until they die" technique using a bunch of tiny fungal things.

Enter Ghave.

I tossed up a lot of different commanders for this deck; Nemata, Grove Guardian, Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest, pretty strongly Thelon of Havenwood and even our new buddy Slimefoot, the Stowaway but ultimately it was the colour-combination of Ghave that gave him the edge over Thelon or the others. Being able to splash in white for a token deck adds a lot of value as I'm sure most people will know, and at the end of the day Ghave's abilities being on retainer was always just a nice thing to have.

So the deck was born after -rather fittingly- scavenging through a bunch of my older cards to find anything with the keywords "Fungus", "Saproling" or "Spore" on them to see how thematic I can keep the deck. I wanted it to be theme-strong whilst also being at least somewhat viable since I plan on using this deck in a casual tournament with my playgroup that we'll be running later this month and that will be one of the main areas to playtest it. Nobody knows who is bringing what so it's got a few bases covered (including Sideboard) and I like to play what I play so the amount of swaps will usually be minimal.

At any rate, feel free to leave suggestions, feedback, criticism, questions or whatever. It all helps!

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	UR
Splash colors	W
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 2 Mythic Rares 35 - 11 Rares 26 - 2 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.66
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Elephant 3/3 G, Human 2/2 G, Human Cleric 1/1 WB, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Wolf 2/2 G, Worm 1/1 BG