Brave Ghave & the Saprolings

Commander / EDH*

KevStormJ

Creature (28)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodspore Thrinax
• 1x Butcher Ghoul
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Crystalline Crawler
• 1x Deathspore Thallid
• 1x Etched Oracle
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Fertilid
• 1x Geralf's Messenger
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Juniper Order Ranger
• 1x Orc Sureshot
• 1x Psychotrope Thallid
• 1x Requiem Angel
• 1x Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
• 1x Rot Shambler
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Strangleroot Geist
• 1x Twilight Drover
• 1x Utopia Mycon
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Winding Constrictor
• 1x Workhorse
• 1x Young Wolf
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Ajani Goldmane
• 1x Ajani Steadfast
• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar

Instant (2)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Grim Harvest

Land (37)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 6x Forest
• 1x Fortified Village
• 1x Gavony Township
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Pendelhaven
• 4x Plains
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Vivid Meadow
• 1x Windswept Heath

Artifact (8)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Blade of the Bloodchief
• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Commander (1)

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Martyr's Bond
• 1x Necrogenesis
• 1x Night Soil
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Sadistic Glee

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Nature's Spiral
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Saproling Symbiosis

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Maybeboard

Creature (13)

• 1x Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
• 1x Bloodbriar
• 1x Bloodflow Connoisseur
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Flesh-Eater Imp
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Pious Evangel  ^Flip
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Rhys the Redeemed
• 1x Sigil Captain
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Black Market
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Martyr's Cause
• 1x Retribution of the Ancients

Land (1)

• 1x Golgari Rot Farm

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Go large, go wide, or don't go at all. This deck has a variety of win conditions with the not-so-obvious being the most effective. Going infinite and using ETB or death trigger effects to wreak havoc is easy to pull off. Whenever you get more than you pay for in +1/+1 counters or token creatures you can go infinite. Focus getting mana production with Utopia Mycon, Crystalline Crawler, Workhorse, Ashnod's Altar, Phyrexian Altar & Earthcraft. These cards will allow infinites to go when coupled with effects that create additional +1/+1 counters or token creatures such as Hardened Scales, Sadistic Glee, Parallel Lives, Cathars' Crusade, Doubling Season, Primal Vigor, Blade of the Bloodchief & undying creatures. I think I need more free sacrifice outlets for death triggers. Ghave is great but that 1 colorless mana cost to sac can slow things down. So I'm considering some sac outlets like Flesh-Eater Imp, Carrion Feeder, Bloodflow Connoisseur, or Martyr's Cause.

I'm looking for some fresh ideas. I've reviewed a lot of other Ghave deck techs and there are some really interesting ideas to try but in my play testing I have found that ETB and death triggers to be the most effective for pulling a win. A lot of players seem to think I'm going to go wide with Brave Ghave & the Saprolings so they hold back or prep to disrupt it. That is when things like Blasting Station catch players off guard.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 31 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.83
Tokens	*/* W Creature Avatar, Emblem Ajani Steadfast, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Spirit 1/1 W, Thopter 1/1 C