Ghave, Guru of Ritualistic Sacrifice

Commander / EDH* BGW (Abzan, Junk) Combo Counters Multiplayer Tokens

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Land (36)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 2x Forest
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 2x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Collective Effort
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Hour of Revelation
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Wrath of God

Creature (27)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodspore Thrinax
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Pious Evangel  ^Flip
• 1x Psychotrope Thallid
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Reyhan, Last of the Abzan *f-etch*
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Spike Feeder
• 1x Spike Weaver
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x Utopia Mycon
• 1x Vigor
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Winding Constrictor
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Instant (9)

• 1x Abzan Charm
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Commander (1)

Enchantment (17)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Hidden Stockpile
• 1x Martyr's Bond
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Sterling Grove

Artifact (5)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Abzan Ascendancy
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Greater Auramancy
• 1x Privileged Position
• 1x Sylvan Library

Artifact (2)

• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Lightning Greaves

Creature (1)

• 1x Athreos, God of Passage

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Wave of Reckoning

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Ghave: Guru of spores, counters, and ritualistic sacrifice.

Goal is to get any sort of doubling effect onto the board (ideally Doubling Season), then begin the flood of +1/+1 counters and Saproling tokens. There are numerous opportunities for the deck to go infinite in the most diabolically fun of ways, even though not quite at the speed of competitive EDH builds. With the surplus of +1/+1 counters you can win via whooping ass using your humans, vampires, saprolings, elementals, demons, or fungi. With the gratuitous sacrifice of individuals, you can put to work your blood-craving, bloodletting cultists (Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, etc.), during their lustful slaughter fests (Grave Pact, Martyr's Bond, etc.).

Detailed card-choice descriptions under construction and coming soon.

The Cultists

Blood Artist
Falkenrath Noble
Pious Evangel  
Zulaport Cutthroat

These cards drain for 1 whenever a creature's death occurs.

Slaughter Fests

Butcher of Malakir
Dictate of Erebos
Grave Pact
Martyr's Bond

These cards even the playing field whenever a creature is sacrificed for our Guru's appeasement.

Altars (Sac Outlets)

Bloodspore Thrinax
Mycoloth
Psychotrope Thallid
Razaketh, the Foulblooded
Smothering Abomination
Utopia Mycon
Viscera Seer
Ashnod's Altar
Phyrexian Altar
Ghave, Guru of Spores
Hidden Stockpile

There are several good sac outlets at our disposal in EDH. I'm not sure if all should be kept, or if some of the slots should be opened up for better options.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	UR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.39
Tokens	City's Blessing, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Saproling 1/1 G, Servo 1/1 C, Worm 1/1 BG