X gon' Ghave it to Ya (TIER 1)

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

Gamernatic

Lands (30)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 3x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 2x Plains
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Bastion
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Cardadv (7)

• 1x Mishra's Bauble
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Oakhame Adversary
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp

Altar (4)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Cryptic Trilobite
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Phyrexian Altar

Graveyard (4)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Lurrus of the Dream-Den
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Tayam, Luminous Enigma

Control (13)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Council's Judgment
• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Prison Term
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wrath of God

Ramp (11)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Combo (8)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Geralf's Messenger
• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Squirrel Nest
• 1x Strangleroot Geist
• 1x Tayam, Luminous Enigma
• 1x Young Wolf

Protection (5)

• 1x Gift of Immortality
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Silence

Commander (1)

Hate (11)

• 1x Archon of Emeria
• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Deafening Silence
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Gaddock Teeg
• 1x Spirit of the Labyrinth
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar

Tutor (10)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Rushed Rebirth
• 1x Survival of the Fittest

Wincon (5)

• 1x Corpse Knight
• 1x Cruel Celebrant
• 1x Geralf's Messenger
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

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Maybeboard

Other (10)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Corpse Knight
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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My spin on Ghave seeks to stall out the game with stax until it can unceremoniously combo off from a bevy of combinations between Ghave, one of the two Altars, and enough value enablers to get an infinite combo going. Usually that requires waiting for a damage dealer (Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat), but sometimes you just gotta go for it and throw an infinite number of (∞/∞)s at your opponents.

Some little notes: On the end step before your turn, if you have mana available and Ghave is on the field, use your mana to make more saprolings. There are multiple tutors for lands in this deck, and Ghave can very easily fulfill the requirement for Westvale Abbey  . Gift of Immortality is Ghave's best friend. Once this is on him, the opponents must kill him twice in one turn to truly kill him- and every round that passes that no one tries to kill him, you can sac Ghave to himself to reset the counters on him.

So to combo in this deck, you NEED either Ashnod's Altar, Phyrexian Altar, or Cryptic Trilobite on the field, with Ashnod's needing the fewest combo pieces to go off, and the Trilobite needing the most combo pieces. In addition, most of these combos require Ghave to be on the field. This is not always the case, but it is usually the case.

Said combo pieces are as follows:

Young Wolf

Anointed Procession

Cathars' Crusade

Good-Fortune Unicorn

Geralf's Messenger

Champion of Lambholt

Woodland Champion

Strangleroot Geist

Typically, the more of these you have on the field, the easier it is to combo off. I'm not gonna sit here and figure out what all works with what, just stare at the interactions till you figure it out and say "oh dude I go infinite here".

Usually the end result is that your combo loops get you net positive on mana- and if you have that, that means you have infinite mana. And if you have infinite mana, you can stop trying to make mana for a while, and instead go net positive on your resources- usually meaning, you now have infinite +1/+1 counters. And if you have infinite mana and counters, you can use Ghave's ability to create an infinite number of 1/1 Saprolings. And if you have infinite mana and Saprolings, you can use Ghave's other ability to put an infinite number of +1/+1 counters on each of those Saprolings. Therefore, once you combo off, you will end with a board result at minimum, of an infinite number of (∞/∞)s.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.10
Tokens	Companion Zone, Saproling 1/1 G, Squirrel 1/1 G