Ghave Save the Dave

Commander / EDH* BGW (Abzan, Junk)

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Combo-doubler (3)

• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers

Combo-mana (4)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Utopia Mycon

Combo-payoff (5)

• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Skullclamp

Draw (4)

• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Sylvan Library

Hate (3)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Spirit of the Labyrinth

Land (30)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 4x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Other-combos (4)

• 1x Geralf's Messenger
• 1x Squirrel Nest
• 1x Strangleroot Geist
• 1x Young Wolf

Protect (2)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mother of Runes

Ramp (15)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Recur (3)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Reanimate

Removal (7)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Aura Mutation
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Tokens (3)

• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Secure the Wastes

Tutor (15)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Steelshaper's Gift
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Wipe (1)

• 1x Austere Command

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Other (21)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Hour of Reckoning
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Martyr's Bond
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 2x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Silence
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Symbiotic Wurm
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Combo-payoff (3)

• 1x Blade of the Bloodchief
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Grave Pact

Draw (7)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Carnage Altar
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Psychotrope Thallid
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Smothering Abomination

Hate (1)

• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence

Land (3)

• 1x Brushland
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Other-combos (5)

• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Juniper Order Ranger
• 1x Sigil Captain
• 1x Vizier of Remedies
• 1x Woodfall Primus

Other-outlets (2)

• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Viscera Seer

Protect (3)

• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Privileged Position
• 1x Selfless Spirit

Ramp (11)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Veteran Explorer
• 1x Wall of Roots

Recur (4)

• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Unburial Rites
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Removal (6)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Vindicate

Secondary-combo (3)

• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Triskelion

Tokens (1)

• 1x From Beyond

Tutor (5)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Tooth and Nail

Wipe (4)

• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wrath of God

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The Deck

Primarily a combo deck, using +1/+1 counter, token, and sacrifice synergies.

The deck can also win via beatdown

Primary combos get infinite dudes, counters, ETBs, and deaths

Secondary combos win off of primary combos

Other combos are other misc combos that are unrelated

References

EDH Rec

A good Primer

Combo Discussion

Decks

Ghave EDH

Ad Naus Earthcraft

Ghave 2.0

Ghave Almighty

Ghave, Guru of Combo

Ghave, Guru of Math

Combos

Primary Combo

Earthcraft / Ashnod's Altar + Illusionist's Bracers equipped to Ghave, Guru of Spores / Doubling Season

Other (Note: many of these are not used)

Ghave, Guru of Spores + Ashnod's Altar + Sigil Captain = infinite mana/tokens

Ghave, Guru of Spores + Ashnod's Altar + Champion of Lambholt = infinite power champ

Avenger of Zendikar / Wurmcoil Engine + Ashnod's Altar + Nim Deathmantle = infinite mana/tokens

Puppeteer Clique + Ashnod's Altar + Nim Deathmantle = steal all graveyards

Woodfall Primus + Ashnod's Altar + Nim Deathmantle = destroy any number of noncreature permanents

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + sac outlet + Puppeteer Clique = steal all graveyards

Melira, Sylvok Outcast + sac outlet + Puppeteer Clique = steal all graveyards

Melira, Sylvok Outcast + sac outlet + Woodfall Primus = destroy any number of noncreature permanents

Juniper Order Ranger / Cathars' Crusade + sac outlet + Puppeteer Clique = steal all graveyards

Juniper Order Ranger / Cathars' Crusade + sac outlet + Woodfall Primus = destroy any number of noncreature permanents

Infinite ETBs or deaths + Grave Pact , Martyr's Bond , Dictate of Erebos , Butcher of Malakir , Aura Shards for game winning explosions

Infinite mana and creatures + Skullclamp or Carnage Altar = infinite draw

Earthcraft + Squirrel Nest = infinite creatures

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Triskelion = infinite damage

Exsanguinate immediate damage from infinite mana

Concordant Crossroads or Blasting Station = infinite damage from infinite creatures

Blood Artist + infinite death = infinite damage from infinite death

Bitter Ordeal + infinite death = f*ck you

Ghave, Guru of Spores + Earthcraft + Young Wolf / Strangleroot Geist = infinite saplings and counters. if earthcraft works with a basic land tht taps for two (from uptopia sprawl, wild growth, etc) then infinite mana too.

Ghave, Guru of Spores + mana altar + Young Wolf / Strangleroot Geist = infinite saplings and mana

Geralf's Messenger is undying with infinite damage built in

Net positive tokens/counters for easier combos: Doubling Season , Cathars' Crusade , Juniper Order Ranger , Blade of the Bloodchief , Corpsejack Menace

Devoted Druid + Vizier of Remedies = infinite green mana

Vizier of Remedies + Woodfall Primus / Puppeteer Clique / Kitchen Finks + sac outlet = infinite persist etbs

Ghave, Guru of Spores + Ashnod's Altar + Woodfall Primus / Puppeteer Clique / Kitchen Finks = infinte persist etbs

Notable

Utopia Mycon is like worse Ashnod's Altar

Psychotrope Thallid is like worse Skullclamp

Devoted Druid is combo but doubles as ramp for T3 Ghave

Wild Growth and Utopia Sprawl make Earthcraft easier to combo

Academy Rector converts creature tutors into enchantments, and stoneforge mysic converts them into equipment. Eternal Witness converts them into recursion.

Gaea's Cradle is busted and can be used to generate mana off Crop Rotation or Sylvan Scrying

2021 UPDATE (TODO)

TODO: consider these cards:

1 Finale of Devastation (PWAR) 160p 1 Eldritch Evolution (MB1) 1190 1 Life // Death (DDJ) 77 1 Imperial Seal (J16) 6 1 Yawgmoth's Will (VMA) 148 1 Silence (TSR) 302 1 Imp's Mischief (PLC) 72 1 Tainted Pact (STA) 33 1 Ad Nauseam (2XM) 76 1 Entomb (UMA) 94 1 Noxious Revival (NPH) 118 1 Crop Rotation (2XM) 161 1 Jeweled Lotus (CMR) 319 1 Chrome Mox (2XM) 240 1 Mana Vault (PUMA) U29 1 Utopia Sprawl (A25) 192 1 Fertile Ground (MB1) 1211 1 Survival of the Fittest (TPR) 199 1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence (JMP) 119 1 Hushbringer (ELD) 18 1 Opposition Agent (CMR) 141 1 Deathrite Shaman (GK1) 59 1 Corpse Knight (M20) 206 1 Tymna the Weaver (CMR) 539 1 Collector Ouphe (MH1) 158 1 Generous Patron (BBD) 70 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets (KHM) 197 1 Destiny Spinner (THB) 168 1 Elvish Mystic (TSR) 360 1 Priest of Titania (MB1) 1299 1 Cryptic Trilobite (C20) 21 1 Gaea's Cradle (OLGC) 2014 1 Prismatic Vista (ZNE) 27

and these decks:

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/fsrJzDCtX0-8UZczYGcwDQ

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ahaijWzQb0m_X_PHstpO9Q

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/itEep79Q3EOTnR0DLkC8Ng

Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.11
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Saproling 1/1 G, Spirit 1/1 C, Squirrel 1/1 G, Warrior 1/1 W
Folders	infinite ideas