Kinda underwhelming for EDH, but she does well enough in her home precon.
NoobOfLore
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
A solid common for a token-oriented deck.
brunsbr103
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
i used to love this card, the whole "swarm" idea is what got me really into magic
but yes, not very powerful in commander
Ferlord
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The thing that lots of people that I know don't understand about the Ghave deck is that it's not primarily a token deck. SURE, your general can make tokens for mana. But the main mechanic's that are important are the +1/+1 counters and the sacrificing. Why do you think Martyr's Bond was made for this deck?
A year after the release of these decks, I got my friend this deck. He tried to make it a strictly token deck and it fumbled. Again, making lots of creatures isn't Ghave's thing. That's Rhys the Redeemed's thing.
Ghave's thing is making a 1/1 token, activating "enter the battlefield" effects (Soul Warden, Cathars' Crusade, etc.), blocking an incoming attacker, and then sacrificing that 1/1, activating "when a creature you control dies (Deathgreeter, Grave Pact, etc.). If you had some way to abuse the +1/+1 counters on Ghave (Blade of the Bloodchief, Sadistic Glee, the aforementioned Cathars' Crusade) or give you additional tokens (Doubling Season/Parallel Lives), you don't even need to pay that extra to regain a counter while killing it as well.
So, in relation to this card, this doesn't fit in a Ghave deck. It fits in a Rhys deck.
Hunter06
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Stupid {T} symbol... yes I know without it, it would be a one card infinite combo, but it really makes this card so much worse :/
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but yes, not very powerful in commander
A year after the release of these decks, I got my friend this deck. He tried to make it a strictly token deck and it fumbled. Again, making lots of creatures isn't Ghave's thing. That's Rhys the Redeemed's thing.
Ghave's thing is making a 1/1 token, activating "enter the battlefield" effects (Soul Warden, Cathars' Crusade, etc.), blocking an incoming attacker, and then sacrificing that 1/1, activating "when a creature you control dies (Deathgreeter, Grave Pact, etc.). If you had some way to abuse the +1/+1 counters on Ghave (Blade of the Bloodchief, Sadistic Glee, the aforementioned Cathars' Crusade) or give you additional tokens (Doubling Season/Parallel Lives), you don't even need to pay that extra
So, in relation to this card, this doesn't fit in a Ghave deck. It fits in a Rhys deck.
2.5/5 Stars