Ghen, Arcanum Weaver
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Ghen, Arcanum Weaver

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

, , Sacrifice an enchantment: Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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Felipix on Triyng to find some Ghen …

2 months ago

Please someone here know some lore from Ghen, Arcanum Weaver? I'm trying to primer my commander deck and I like to put some lore in

Felipix on Commander recomendation thread

3 months ago

You will build a deck but dont know a commander thats is fun to the strategy you are thinking? This is the thread for you!

How it works: Someone say "Hey I need to build a mardu deck about enchantments and I dont have a commander" them someone ansewer "You can play Ghen, Arcanum Weaver, I think it works. I need to biuld a deck about wurms", and it's repeat... Understand?

I start: I need to build a selesnya (green and white) rhino deck with a commander that matters about rhinos

Gleeock on What commanders do you want …

11 months ago

Also, more creativity in . Right now it is mostly sac-value or land recursion belonging to Jund, with some generic recursion. Land-GY is just sortof repetitive & lackluster ATM. The way creatures & other spells with flashback & escape work there are at least a bunch of multi-tiered ways to make those recursion effects interesting on 2 fronts... but the nature of lands (& land abilities) coming from the GY makes this a one-dimensional theme currently.

There are a few exceptions in Jund, but most of those have been lackluster dabbles on theme change or more exceptional commanders tend to be high CMC. I want something mold-breaking but viable... Let's get Jund polymorphing out there, polymorphing for everyone make the board-state difficult to control & let the strong feed of the weak, this is the Jund way.

Do a Jund equivalent to what Sultai does every month. Or what Jeskai just got to do with making a viable superfriend option - a reason to dabble outside of Atraxa or WUBRG in an archetype

Remember when Mardu enchantments was unthinkable?: Ghen, Arcanum Weaver & Pepperidge Farms remember. These are good ways for shards/wedges to explore archetypes without breaking formats.

pookypuppy6 on Commanders that can take advanmtage …

11 months ago

Ghen, Arcanum Weaver could do some interesting things with it. You could sac it after the boardwipe to get a different enchantment, or if you want the draining effect you can sac a throwaway enchantment to get it back into play.

I play it in Zur, Eternal Schemer - maybe not the best place for The Meathook Massacre, but a boardwipe that can then be a deathtouching blocker with a drain effect is nice.

KBK7101 on Alternative themes/gimmick EDH deck ideas

1 year ago

Whenever anyone asks this kind of question, I always default back to my favorite sets/planes. And also Rule 0 partner decks. lol

I apologize in advance if none of these are the kind of thing that you're looking for.

I really enjoy my Satsuki, the Living Lore deck. Most, if not all, of the relevant sagas are all cheap and some of the best cards in the deck that care about counters (like Power Conduit and Nesting Grounds along with various proliferate cards) were reprinted in New Capenna's Brokers commander deck, so those are also pretty cheap. Add in cards like Historian's Boon, Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle and any constellation/enchantress effects you see fit and that's pretty much the core of the deck right there.

Kairi, the Swirling Sky is a really fun clones deck that I use on Arena's Historic Brawl format. Basic gameplan is to make as many copies of Kairi as possible, only to watch them die to the legend rule and benefit from the death triggers.

Toralf, God of Fury  Flip is another deck that I have and really enjoy. It makes mono red burn possible in commander, and the way that Toralf interacts with damage doublers such as Dictate of the Twin Gods means that the "trample" damage your spells have get amplified for each creature you kill with it. I have a better description of it on my deck's page, if you're interesting (not trying to self-advertise, I promise). Not sure how well this deck could be built on a budget as I'm not sure how much the damage doubling cards are at the moment (as they're kind of crucial).

Any of the five Amonkhet gods. Oketra the True, Kefnet the Mindful, Bontu the Glorified, Hazoret the Fervent and Rhonas the Indomitable never get as much love as the Theros gods and it makes me sad (because Amonkhet is my favorite plane). Their drawbacks are fairly substantial, I will admit, so they're a bit of a challenge to build. Might be what you're looking for?

Ghen, Arcanum Weaver but as an aristocrats style deck where you sacrifice enchantment creatures like Nyxborn Rollicker, Hopeful Eidolon and Gnarled Scarhide to recur stuff like Doomwake Giant. Could also be a hybrid enchantress kind of deck if you lean heavily into the Bestow mechanic. (Hm. I actually really like this idea...)

You could also run some "illegal" partners. I usually only try to do this if they have some sort of story significance, though. For example, I have a young Urza, Powerstone Prodigy and Mishra, Excavation Prodigy precon power leveled deck that I love. Hans Eriksson and Saffi Eriksdotter is one I've wanted to build for a while. Also maybe Gisa the Ghoulcaller and Stitcher Geralf? Or their newer versions, Geralf, Visionary Stitcher and Gisa, Glorious Resurrector? Stuff like that.

Crow_Umbra on Clout Conquistadors

1 year ago

Thank you Andramalech! In my 4ish years playing EDH, Mardu has definitely grown to be my favorite three color combo. Sultai was my favorite for a bit, but I got kinda bored with it. My Mardu love started with my Alesha, Who Smiles at Death deck, Awkward Eye Contact with Death (retired), which got recycled into Isshin earlier this year. I don't currently own this Shanid deck; this list is more a running concept if I did decide to pick it up. Some of the pieces from the new Necron WH40K precon also have me reconsidering Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter lol.

Alesha was a fun balancing act between aggro, control, and mobilizing a combo. I changed her theme up about 2-3 times over the 2 years that I had the deck running. I know I'll eventually revisit her, but I'm having too much fun with Isshin and honing it more. My play group seems to be coming around on proxies, so I might proxy up her pieces that are currently in Isshin. I might end up with 3 proxied Mardu decks at this rate lol.

My meta tends to lean aggro and go-wide, so that's more or less where my love for beat-face strats comes from. I still love combos when they can fit with a deck.

I think that Mardu has received a lot of love from WotC in the past few years in terms of design diversity. I mean:

legendofa on Is the Commander format being …

1 year ago

As my opinion, the influx of five-color legendary creatures has diluted the importance of being five colors. It feels like being five colors has gone from being "This character is important and powerful" to "This card can lead any Commander deck." This next statement is third-hand, so a grain of salt may be in order, but I've heard of people using pre-ban Golos, The Tireless Pilgrim as the commander of a mono-red deck, and specifically adding more Treasure cards to use Golos's ability, because "it's objectively the best option." When Go-Shintai of Life's Origin can do everything Ghen, Arcanum Weaver can, plus add two additional colors (ignoring the additional Shrine ability), it effectively removes Ghen from any sort of contention.

This creates a centralizing effect, where every five-color commander is scrutinized to see if it's the single best option. Kenrith, the Returned King is the current leader, allowing aggro, combo, control, or just five-color goodstuff. Esika, God of the Tree  Flip and Sisay, Weatherlight Captain/Jodah, the Unifier also can lead virtually anything, as long as it has creatures and planeswalkers or legendary creatures, respectively.

I presented the five-color timeline as a bit of objective fact. The consequences of that fact are that "five-color-ness" for legendary creatures is increasingly meaningless, acting as more of an opportunity than a hard restriction, and that the high production numbers are reducing the story and mechanical impact of each one.

Idoneity on Idoneity

2 years ago

Omniscience_is_life - Good day to you, and I thank you! I am currently building a Lord of Tresserhorn planeswalker list, whereupon I also intend on a Ghen, Arcanum Weaver deck based around Barren Glory. Bant will likely be an old-bordered tribal deck around Treva, but Jeskai is wide open. I shall consider the Birb Dino!

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