Ghave The Infinite

Commander / EDH BGW (Abzan, Junk) Counters Sacrifice Tokens

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Creature (22)

• 1x Bennie Bracks, Zoologist
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Cryptic Trilobite
• 1x Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Good-Fortune Unicorn
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 1x Mirkwood Bats
• 1x Mondrak, Glory Dominus
• 1x Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation  ^Flip
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Renata, Called to the Hunt
• 1x Rhys the Redeemed
• 1x Slimefoot, the Stowaway
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Teysa Karlov
• 1x Thalisse, Reverent Medium
• 1x Welcoming Vampire
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Anointed Procession
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Cathars' Crusade
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Insidious Roots
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Smothering Tithe

Land (35)

• 1x Brightclimb Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 6x Forest
• 1x Fortified Village
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Grove of the Guardian
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 7x Plains
• 1x Shattered Sanctum
• 1x Shineshadow Snarl
• 1x Sungrass Prairie
• 1x Sunlit Marsh
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of the False God

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Finale of Glory
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Lingering Souls
• 1x Nomads' Assembly
• 1x Parallel Evolution
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Skittering Invasion

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Kaya, Geist Hunter

Commander (1)

Artifact (15)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Idol of Oblivion
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The One Ring
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman

Instant (6)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Second Harvest
• 1x Stroke of Midnight
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

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This is one of those decks that is fun to play... sometimes.

It is an aristocrat combo deck that abuses Ghave, Guru of Spores.

It begins simply with ramping with typical ramp spells, and mana rocks.

You can look for your combo pieces with wishclaw_talsiman and Demonic Tutor. There is also a decent amount of card draw with Welcoming Vampire, Black Market Connections, The One Ring, Bennie Bracks, Zoologist, and Mentor of the Meek.

The lines you're looking for here are any sort of token doubler along with Ashnod's Altar. This gives you the ability to create two saprolings for 1 mana, sac one of them to Ashnod's Altar giving you 2 mana. Using 1 mana to sac one and give Ghave a +1/+1 counter. Rinse and repeat giving you infinite ETB and LTB effects which can be used with Mirkwood Bats, Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and others.

The above with Hardened Scales or some other counter doubler gives you infinite counters on your creatures as well.

Pitiless Plunderer also can be abused here with a token doubler. Ghave is on the field, you create a couple saprolings. You use Ghave's second ability and sac a saproling. Giving you 2 Treasure tokens and 1 Saproling. You use 1 to remove a +1/+1 counter creating 2 saprolings. You now have 1 Treasure token and 3 saprolings. You use the other to sac a saproling and put a +1/+1 counter on Ghave giving you 2 treaures 2 saprolings and ghave is back to normal. Repeat until you have infinite saprolings with infinite counters.

Slimefoot, the Stowaway also goes infinite here with Ashnod's Altar and a token doubler. Nice thing is he also does infinite damage to each opponent when he does. Use 4 mana create two saprolings. Sac them both giving you 4 mana, 2 damage to each opponent, 2 life to you. Use those 4 mana to create 2 saprolings again. Rinse and repeat.

There are other infinite combos in the deck and some take a few iterations to make sure they actually go infinite.

Be warned if you use this deck, if your playgroup doesn't like infinite combos, probably use a different deck. If you like weird things that happen to work, then enjoy. Also, its one of those decks where you need to really assess your board state, because Ghave is notorious for going infinite by accident.

It still needs a little work as it can feel clunky at times. I might consider removing some token generators as ghave normally provides me the tokens I need most of the time, although a Nomads' Assembly on a board with 5 tokens is fun, same with Second Harvest. Throw in Cathars' Crusade for good measure.

Date added	3 months
Last updated	4 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.97
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Eldrazi 10/10 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Elemental 8/8 GW, Elephant 3-3 G, Elf Warrior 1/1 GW, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Human 1/1 W, Kor Soldier 1/1 W, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Soldier 2/2 W, Spirit 1/1 W, Squirrel 1/1 G, Treasure