Art: James Paick · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast
Ghave, Guru of Spores
WBGLegendary Creature — Fungus Shaman · from $0.57
Ghave enters with five +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
A typical Commander deck
A starting template, not a rule — counts to fill in around the commander.
- Lands3736–38 for most decks; fewer with cheap curves
- Ramp10mana rocks, dorks, land ramp — mostly 2–3 mana
- Card draw10repeatable engines beat one-shot cantrips
- Targeted removal6answers for creatures AND artifacts/enchantments
- Board wipes3sweepers reset boards you've lost
- Synergy & win conditions33the deck's actual plan
Staples in these colors
The 100 cards that fit this color identity in the most EDHREC decklists (EDHREC rank via Scryfall).
Budget
55 of 100 at $5 or less · 39 at $1 or less
| # | Card | Type | MV | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sol Ring | Artifact | 1 | $1.07 |
| 2 | Command Tower | Land | 0 | $0.26 |
| 3 | Arcane Signet | Artifact | 2 | $0.34 |
| 4 | Exotic Orchard | Land | 0 | $0.19 |
| 5 | Reliquary Tower | Land | 0 | $4.28 |
| 6 | Swords to Plowshares | Instant | 1 | $0.98 |
| 7 | Swiftfoot Boots | Artifact | 2 | $1.43 |
| 8 | Lightning Greaves | Artifact | 2 | $3.86 |
| 9 | Path of Ancestry | Land | 0 | $0.16 |
| 10 | Path to Exile | Instant | 1 | $0.71 |
| 11 | Fellwar Stone | Artifact | 2 | $0.47 |
| 12 | Rogue's Passage | Land | 0 | $0.31 |
| 13 | Evolving Wilds | Land | 0 | $0.09 |
| 14 | Cultivate | Sorcery | 3 | $0.38 |
| 15 | Thought Vessel | Artifact | 2 | $2.23 |
| 16 | Farseek | Sorcery | 2 | $0.42 |
| 17 | Bojuka Bog | Land | 0 | $1.12 |
| 18 | Beast Within | Instant | 3 | $0.49 |
| 19 | Nature's Lore | Sorcery | 2 | $2.15 |
| 20 | Rampant Growth | Sorcery | 2 | $0.39 |
| 21 | Heroic Intervention | Instant | 2 | $9.28 |
| 22 | Terramorphic Expanse | Land | 0 | $0.10 |
| 23 | Myriad Landscape | Land | 0 | $0.25 |
| 24 | Mind Stone | Artifact | 2 | $0.21 |
| 25 | Dark Ritual | Instant | 1 | $0.44 |
| 26 | Birds of Paradise | Creature | 1 | $4.98 |
| 27 | Polluted Delta | Land | 0 | $19.85 |
| 28 | Kodama's Reach | Sorcery | 3 | $1.55 |
| 29 | Flooded Strand | Land | 0 | $12.78 |
| 30 | Three Visits | Sorcery | 2 | $5.55 |
| 31 | Skullclamp | Artifact | 1 | $4.85 |
| 32 | Solemn Simulacrum | Creature | 4 | $0.27 |
| 33 | Misty Rainforest | Land | 0 | $35.98 |
| 34 | Bloodstained Mire | Land | 0 | $14.54 |
| 35 | Fabled Passage | Land | 0 | $0.65 |
| 36 | Windswept Heath | Land | 0 | $11.19 |
| 37 | Wooded Foothills | Land | 0 | $17.96 |
| 38 | Verdant Catacombs | Land | 0 | $29.16 |
| 39 | Scalding Tarn | Land | 0 | $36.86 |
| 40 | Marsh Flats | Land | 0 | $32.04 |
| 41 | Commander's Sphere | Artifact | 3 | $0.19 |
| 42 | Reanimate | Sorcery | 1 | $6.56 |
| 43 | Arid Mesa | Land | 0 | $31.40 |
| 44 | Llanowar Elves | Creature | 1 | $0.24 |
| 45 | Godless Shrine | Land | 0 | $8.47 |
| 46 | Generous Gift | Instant | 3 | $0.93 |
| 47 | Demonic Tutor | Sorcery | 2 | $62.80 |
| 48 | Smothering Tithe | Enchantment | 4 | $56.09 |
| 49 | Toxic Deluge | Sorcery | 3 | $5.04 |
| 50 | Ancient Tomb | Land | 0 | $56.94 |
| 51 | Overgrown Tomb | Land | 0 | $8.00 |
| 52 | Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth | Land | 0 | $56.13 |
| 53 | Boseiju, Who Endures | Land | 0 | $50.48 |
| 54 | Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth | Land | 0 | $16.76 |
| 55 | Esper Sentinel | Creature | 1 | $58.03 |
| 56 | Temple Garden | Land | 0 | $6.57 |
| 57 | Temple of the False God | Land | 0 | $0.19 |
| 58 | Chromatic Lantern | Artifact | 3 | $0.38 |
| 59 | Isolated Chapel | Land | 0 | $0.21 |
| 60 | Garruk's Uprising | Enchantment | 3 | $0.39 |
| 61 | Feed the Swarm | Sorcery | 2 | $0.19 |
| 62 | City of Brass | Land | 0 | $9.17 |
| 63 | The One Ring | Artifact | 4 | $109.88 |
| 64 | Elvish Mystic | Creature | 1 | $0.35 |
| 65 | Phyrexian Arena | Enchantment | 3 | $1.92 |
| 66 | Deadly Rollick | Instant | 4 | $26.52 |
| 67 | Canopy Vista | Land | 0 | $0.22 |
| 68 | Teferi's Protection | Instant | 3 | $34.90 |
| 69 | Cavern of Souls | Land | 0 | $47.72 |
| 70 | Woodland Cemetery | Land | 0 | $0.62 |
| 71 | Sakura-Tribe Elder | Creature | 2 | $0.30 |
| 72 | Vampiric Tutor | Instant | 1 | $48.13 |
| 73 | Mana Confluence | Land | 0 | $34.75 |
| 74 | Urza's Saga | Enchantment | 0 | $34.67 |
| 75 | Lotus Petal | Artifact | 0 | $35.11 |
| 76 | Eternal Witness | Creature | 3 | $1.10 |
| 77 | Assassin's Trophy | Instant | 2 | $1.01 |
| 78 | Enlightened Tutor | Instant | 1 | $21.99 |
| 79 | Caves of Koilos | Land | 0 | $0.30 |
| 80 | Wayfarer's Bauble | Artifact | 1 | $0.31 |
| 81 | Black Market Connections | Enchantment | 3 | $10.78 |
| 82 | Victimize | Sorcery | 3 | $0.57 |
| 83 | Deadly Dispute | Instant | 2 | $0.29 |
| 84 | Sunpetal Grove | Land | 0 | $0.28 |
| 85 | Roaming Throne | Creature | 4 | $47.06 |
| 86 | Ashnod's Altar | Artifact | 3 | $8.15 |
| 87 | Talisman of Hierarchy | Artifact | 2 | $0.45 |
| 88 | Llanowar Wastes | Land | 0 | $0.59 |
| 89 | War Room | Land | 0 | $0.79 |
| 90 | Blood Artist | Creature | 2 | $2.78 |
| 91 | Delighted Halfling | Creature | 1 | $25.91 |
| 92 | Herald's Horn | Artifact | 3 | $2.88 |
| 93 | Mana Vault | Artifact | 1 | $91.59 |
| 94 | Anguished Unmaking | Instant | 3 | $1.58 |
| 95 | Chrome Mox | Artifact | 0 | $51.19 |
| 96 | Ghostly Prison | Enchantment | 3 | $5.72 |
| 97 | Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx | Land | 0 | $45.68 |
| 98 | Reflecting Pool | Land | 0 | $5.50 |
| 99 | Vault of Champions | Land | 0 | $16.60 |
| 100 | Worldly Tutor | Instant | 1 | $26.58 |
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Combos with Ghave, Guru of Spores
The 10 most popular of 198 combos (by EDHREC decklist count) using this commander that fit its color identity, from Commander Spellbook.
Ashnod's Altar + Doubling Season + Ghave, Guru of Spores
Infinite colorless mana · Infinite creature tokens · Infinite death triggers · Infinite creature ETB · Infinite creature LTB · Infinite creature sacrifice triggers · Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Ashnod's Altar + Cathars' Crusade + Ghave, Guru of Spores
Infinite colorless mana · Infinite creature tokens · Infinite death triggers · Infinite creature ETB · Infinite creature LTB · Infinite creature sacrifice triggers · Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Ashnod's Altar + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
Infinite colorless mana · Infinite creature tokens · Infinite death triggers · Infinite creature ETB · Infinite creature LTB · Infinite creature sacrifice triggers · Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Ashnod's Altar + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Parallel Lives
Infinite death triggers · Infinite creature ETB · Infinite creature LTB · Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Ashnod's Altar + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Good-Fortune Unicorn
Infinite colorless mana · Infinite creature tokens · Infinite death triggers · Infinite creature ETB · Infinite creature LTB · Infinite creature sacrifice triggers · Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Ashnod's Altar + Ghave, Guru of Spores + Rosie Cotton of South Lane
Infinite colorless mana · Infinite creature tokens · Infinite death triggers · Infinite creature ETB · Infinite creature LTB · Infinite creature sacrifice triggers · Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Ashnod's Altar + Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Ghave, Guru of Spores
Infinite death triggers · Infinite creature ETB · Infinite creature LTB · Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Ghave, Guru of Spores + Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest + Utopia Mycon
Infinite death triggers · Infinite creature ETB · Infinite creature LTB · Infinite creature sacrifice triggers · Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
Anointed Procession + Ashnod's Altar + Ghave, Guru of Spores
Infinite death triggers · Infinite creature ETB · Infinite creature LTB · Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Ghave, Guru of Spores + Good-Fortune Unicorn + Utopia Mycon
Infinite death triggers · Infinite creature ETB · Infinite creature LTB · Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Top finishes
2 finishes placing top 16 at 16+ player events with this commander. Results from Topdeck.gg.
- 1st of 37 — Brawl for a Badlands at Schmoley's on Topdeck.ggSep 5, 2026 · 5–1–0 · by Rhystic Study Is Fine, You're Just a Wimp [CHUDS]
- 12th of 30 — YGG: CEDH Commander Tournament for a Tundra (revised, hp) on Topdeck.ggJul 18, 2026 · 1–3–0 · by Bstoner9742@yahoo.com
Precons led by Ghave, Guru of Spores
Official preconstructed decks with Ghave, Guru of Spores at the helm.
- Counterpunch
PreconCommander· Released Jun 2011
Card data and images courtesy of Scryfall; popularity ranking from EDHREC decklist data included in Scryfall bulk. Combo data courtesy of Commander Spellbook. Tournament results courtesy of Topdeck.gg. Precon product lists via MTGJSON. Deckwarden is unofficial Fan Content and is not endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.