Ghave Guru of Spores Aristocrats

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk)

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Creature (35)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Corpse Knight
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Cruel Celebrant
• 1x Deathspore Thallid
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Good-Fortune Unicorn
• 1x Grismold, the Dreadsower
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Poison-Tip Archer
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Rot Shambler
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Sigil Captain
• 1x Slimefoot, the Stowaway
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x Teysa Karlov
• 1x Verdant Force
• 1x Vindictive Vampire
• 1x Whisper, Blood Liturgist
• 1x Winding Constrictor
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (33)

• 1x Blossoming Sands
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 7x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 6x Plains
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Artifact (6)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Manalith
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Kaya's Wrath
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Rampant Growth

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter

Commander (1)

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Carnival of Souls
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Death's Presence
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Fanatical Devotion
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Kismet
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Instant (5)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Despark
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Second Harvest
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

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My Ghave Aristocrats deck.this is the first deck I’ve built on my own and I’m very happy with how it’s turning out. Anyways I’ve been tuning the deck for a bit now and just started using tapped out again so decided to put my decks up. Any comments on changes would be great!

Cards that can be cut when I find better alternatives

Jarad Golgari Lich Lord: Feels like a dead card %99 of the time, only once have I ever used him for anything and that was to eliminate 2 opponents by sacking a huge forgotten ancient.

Verdant force: Just isn’t very useful to high CMC. Just a worse Tendershoot Dryad.

Cards that I want to cut for better ones are

Kismet for GravePact

Reasoning: Kismet isn’t supposed to be in here just wanted to test the card out. I’ll put in gravepact once I get one.

Kayas Wrath for Wrath if God or any better wrath effect.

Reasoning: Kayas wrath mana cost is very limiting a lot of the times.

Wildcards (Cards that are in here because I like them)

Grismold the Dreadsower: Just a fun card and really like the situations it can lead to.

Cards to Get

Anointed Procession

Primal Vigor?

Doubling Season

I want to talk about Carnival of Souls, This Card is amazing in this deck, You can go infinite with similar combos to Ashnods Altar, you only need a drain effect like blood artist or Moldervine Reclamation. It can get so much value immediately after playing it. As long as you have a way to get counters like Cathars Crusade you can essentially pay 1 life get a saproling. You do need to be careful because your opponents creatures can trigger this. But as long as you are smart or have a blood artist effect. You can either go infinite and drain the whole table or get a ton of saprolings and go wide.

Anyways that’s all for now this is my first time trying to describe one of my favorite decks. Any advice would be great also pretty sure there is a better way to format this description but I don’t know how. Thanks!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 0 Rares 31 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.46
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Plant 1/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Zombie Army 0/0 B