Ghave That Bitch Some Competition

Commander / EDH* BGW (Abzan, Junk) Combo Competitive Infinite Combo Multiplayer

Abzkaban

Land (31)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Combo Wins (3)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Corpse Knight
• 1x Geralf's Messenger

Recursion (3)

• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Ramp (17)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Sol Ring

Hate (8)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Choke
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Root Maze
• 1x Spirit of the Labyrinth
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Trinisphere

Removal (5)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Hulk Line (4)

• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Saffi Eriksdotter
• 1x Viscera Seer

Tokens Line (3)

• 1x Good-Fortune Unicorn
• 1x Strangleroot Geist
• 1x Young Wolf

Commander (1)

Tutors (14)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Card Advantage (6)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Generous Patron
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sylvan Library

Combo Protection (3)

• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Silence

Combo Mana (2)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Earthcraft

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"I gave that bitch some competition. Bitches love competition.”

A prototype competitive list for my deck:

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Ghave That Bitch an Infinite Combo [Primer]

Commander / EDH Abzkaban

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This list is theory crafting to find the most optimized build for Ghave that I can, and as such no limits such as budget are placed on card inclusions. This is a work in progress and needs to be tested.

The idea with this list is to focus on a few combos rather than have many available options as in the original list. Everything else is either stax/hate against other combo decks, removal against enemy stax and combo pieces, and ramp to get us to our combos faster. I've included the ones I believe to be the fastest, most efficient wins.

Plan A

The Incredible Hulk

Protean Hulk is our most efficient win despite the pieces needed artificially raise the average cmc. We never intend to actually cast them from hand. Here's our game plan:

1. Play Pattern of Rebirth or Natural Order to cheat Hulk into play. It is important to have a sac outlet available to get Hulk rolling.
2. Pull Karmic Guide and Viscera Seer from the deck (and Dryad Arbor because why the hell not?). Karmic brings back Hulk.
3. Sac Hulk to Seer and grab Saffi Eriksdotter , Grand Abolisher , and Blood Artist / Corpse Knight .
4. Now we have Blood Artist + Karmic Guide + Saffi Eriksdotter . Sac Saffi targeting Karmic then sac Karmic to Seer. Karmic comes back and brings back Saffi. Repeat so our artist can drain the board.

Plan B

Ghave's Messenger

Ashnod's Altar + Geralf's Messenger + Ghave, Guru of Spores

1. Sac Geralf's Messenger to Ashnod's Altar . Messenger comes back with a +1/+1 counter and deals 2 damage.
2. Use mana floated by altar so Ghave can remove the counter from Messenger.
3. Rinse and repeat so Messenger kills the board.

Plan C

Infinite Tokens

We have a multiple ways to accomplish this if our first two plans aren't an option. We can use either Earthcraft or Ashnod's Altar with Young Wolf , Strangleroot Geist , or Good-Fortune Unicorn . If we use an undying creature, a Blood Artist effect wins the game. If we use the unicorn with Earthcraft or don't have a Blood Artist effect, we still have infinite tokens. That'll be game if no one top-decks a win con.

Earthcraft + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Young Wolf

Earthcraft + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Strangleroot Geist

Earthcraft + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Good-Fortune Unicorn

Ashnod's Altar + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Young Wolf

Ashnod's Altar + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Strangleroot Geist

Top Ranked	Achieved #64 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #33 position in Commander / EDH 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Ashnod's Altar + Geralf's Messenger + Ghave, Guru of Spores Blood Artist + Karmic Guide + Saffi Eriksdotter Ashnod's Altar + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Young Wolf Earthcraft + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Young Wolf Earthcraft + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Strangleroot Geist Earthcraft + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Good-Fortune Unicorn Ashnod's Altar + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Strangleroot Geist
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.07
Tokens	Saproling 1/1 G, Spirit 1/1 C
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