Ghave vs Prossh
Commander (EDH) forum
Posted on Feb. 15, 2016, 10:07 p.m. by Lightpulsar9
So recently I've been debating about which deck should be my competitive deck, Prossh, Skyraider of Kher or Ghave, Guru of Spores. I have a prossh deck that I've been working on for a while now, but i recently found ghave, and his competitive combo deck works similar to what I have for prossh. I'm just wondering what you guys think, should I stick with prossh and try to make it better? Or convert over to Ghave. I want to know your opinions on which would be stronger/ better in a competitive environment.
Prosh is considered one of the top edh commanders if build without budget. It is a tier one deck on every tier deck I have seen. Ghave is either a tier one or tier two deck depending on which list you go by. But I would grade it on the lower end of tier one, or the upper end of tier two.
With that said, I have both currently (neither of which are without budget remind you, but are semi competitive - dont have the 3-3-9 mana base yet) While Prossh has a more exposive combo, he is also better suited to deal 21 commander damage to single shot someone. I have beat a prossh deck with my ghave deck, but only because I exiled his food chain and his Porphorous. That was the only time I played with those two as opponents.
February 16, 2016 12:01 a.m.
Both are powerful. Prossh is easier to pilot. Ghave is more resilient. Prossh combos easier, but Ghave provides more utility. I play Ghave. You can take a look at my list here.
February 16, 2016 12:06 a.m.
Lightpulsar9 says... #5
Thank you guys for your input! I'll just stick with prossh purely based on powerlevel. I've been struggling to get my build to be stronger and I just wanted to know what you guys thought before I kept going. Thanks! Also, vault, I actually saw your list and thought it was pretty awesome. It's the reason I starting thinking about switching commanders. Thanks for letting me know what you thought though!
February 16, 2016 12:13 p.m.
Considering you have already started on Prossh, you made the right choice. Just be aware that if someone takes Prossh offline, you'll probably lose the game. Good luck with your build.
February 16, 2016 3:29 p.m.
Postmortal_Pop says... #7
Ghrave would be cool to see with Vigor maybe even go robots with modular creatures and stuff like Mycosynth Lattice. I don't know about elsewhere but there's a huge lack of wbg artifacts deck
EndStepTop says... #2
Prossh is immensely more powerful, he requires only Food Chain and an outlet (of which the deck as a litany of). Ghave requires atleast 3 pieces and the ones that function well with Ghave all clutter in the same CMC. If you really want to play ghave the deck isn't bad, but you'll notice consistency issue that Prossh simply doesn't have.
February 15, 2016 10:19 p.m.