Ghave, Guru of Spores

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk)

jclaust

Land (35)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Serra's Sanctum
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 3x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Plains
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Three Tree City
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Artifact (5)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Creature (21)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1x Conclave Mentor
• 1x Cruel Celebrant
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Enduring Vitality
• 1x Generous Pup
• 1x Good-Fortune Unicorn
• 1x Morbid Opportunist
• 1x Nadier's Nightblade
• 1x Rosie Cotton of South Lane
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Slimefoot, the Stowaway
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Welcoming Vampire
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Idyllic Tutor
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Replenish
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Commander (1)

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Tocasia's Welcome
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Instant (11)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Clever Concealment
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

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Ghave, Guru of Spores

This is a Ghave rebuild project. I piloted the deck between 2011-2014, each year focused on different but overlapping strategy: Go-Wide and Lords, Activated Abilities and Untap effects, and Persist (Keyword Ability) and +1/+1 Combo.

Today's variant focus is to include 2015-2021 cards: Slimefoot, the Stowaway, Good-Fortune Unicorn, Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest, etc. Specific and similar non-land cards with mechanically unique effects such as Mikaeus, the Unhallowed, creatures with Persist, Seedborn Muse, Big Mana such as Mana Reflection and Lord cards such as Eldrazi Monument were purposefully avoided.

Today's deck theme is Tokens, and strategy is Sacrifice.

Excluded Notable Cards

All other Fetchland, Imperial Seal and other 2-MV Tutors, 0-MV Mana Rocks and other 1-MV Mana Dorks; in additional, Grave Pact and other game-state changing, if not winning, cards. Reasoning: I have played a High-Powered variant with the mentioned construction and cards above, and I wanted a change.

The deck is constructed with card function in mind:

Draw, Tutor, Ramp, +1/+1 Provider, Token Doubler, Sacrifice Outlet, Sacrifice Payoff, Protection and 1 Recursion card; plus 4 Interaction cards.

Also, Permanent differentiation was a focus to vary the type of interaction that is most effectve against the list. The Protection package is designed to take mitiagte the effectiveness of Mass Destruction/Bounce.

Keep brewing.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 days
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.29
Tokens	Food, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Saproling 1/1 G, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Squirrel 1/1 G, Treasure