Ghave, Guru of Spores is a +1/+1 counter and token engine. Removing a counter makes a Saproling, and sacrificing a creature puts a counter back. Both abilities cost only {1}, so the deck builds loops that pay for themselves and spam unlimited Saprolings. It assembles small combo pieces around Ghave: mana-producing sacrifice outlets, creatures that return or refund counters, and effects that offset the generic activation cost. Meanwhile it plays a grindy aristocrats-style tokens game that converts the board into value whenever the combo isn't online. How it wins: It goes infinite with Ghave to create endless Saprolings and endless sacrifices, then turns that loop into a lethal drain from death or enter-the-battlefield triggers, or into an overwhelming pumped token army. Key roles: - Mana-positive sacrifice outlets: Free or mana-producing ways to sacrifice creatures cover the {1} on Ghave's abilities, letting Saprolings fuel the next activation and closing the loop with Ghave at the center (Ghave, Guru of Spores). - Counter loop enablers: Creatures that come back after dying, or that cancel out counters, combine with Ghave's counter placement and removal into repeatable, unbounded death and token cycles. - Cost reducers and untap effects: Effects that lower the activation cost of abilities, or produce extra mana from tokens and creatures, make Ghave's activations effectively free and give the deck alternate routes to infinity. - Death and token payoffs: Drain triggers when creatures die or enter turn infinite Saprolings into a win and reward the deck for grinding even without a full combo. - Counter and token doublers: Effects that add extra counters or extra tokens multiply each Ghave activation, which stocks the board for the combo and makes non-infinite turns explosive. - Anthems and finishers: Global pumps and mass-attack enablers turn a wide Saproling board into lethal combat as a backup plan when combo pieces are disrupted.

Ghave, Guru of Spores decklist

• Ashnod's Altar
• Cathars' Crusade
• Doubling Season
• Phyrexian Altar
• Pitiless Plunderer
• Zulaport Cutthroat
• Blood Artist
• Viscera Seer