Garruk, Primal Hunter
Legendary Planeswalker — Garruk
+1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
−3: Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
−6: Create a 6/6 green Wurm creature token for each land you control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Commander 2021
- Price
- $1.66
- EDHREC rank
- #1931
Garruk, Primal Hunter lands and immediately puts a 3/3 onto the board, draws a fistful of cards off his minus, or threatens a game-ending ultimate — all on a five-mana planeswalker with a starting loyalty of three. The cost is real: five mana and a low starting loyalty make him vulnerable the turn he enters, so he rewards boards that can protect him rather than strategies that need him to survive unaided. Carth the Lion and Body of Research are the company he keeps when green wants to go deep on value.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Carth the Lion
Carth the Lion runs Garruk, Primal Hunter in 78% of decks because Carth's passive adds an extra loyalty counter to every ability Garruk activates, letting him tick up faster, survive longer, and reach his game-ending ultimate in far fewer turns.
Ruxa, Patient Professor
Garruk, Primal Hunter's 3/3 Beast tokens have no abilities, which means Ruxa, Patient Professor hands them a flat power bonus — token after token arriving with a relevant buff the moment Garruk's plus fires.
Ghired, Conclave Exile
Ghired, Conclave Exile copies tokens on attack, and a 3/3 Beast from Garruk, Primal Hunter is exactly the kind of cheap, repeatable token Ghired wants to populate — the two together snowball a board very quickly.
Baru, Wurmspeaker
Baru, Wurmspeaker cares about Wurms, and Garruk, Primal Hunter's ultimate produces a Wurm token with power and toughness equal to the number of cards in hand — often a 10/10 or larger that Baru can immediately duplicate.
Jasmine Boreal of the Seven
Jasmine Boreal of the Seven wants a critical mass of vanilla and near-vanilla creatures, and Garruk, Primal Hunter's Beast tokens fit the profile while his minus ability refuels the hand to keep deploying threats.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Garruk, Primal Hunter earns his slot: the format's longer games give him time to activate multiple times, and the draw ability — scaling with your biggest creature — generates obscene card advantage in the stompy and big-green shells that dominate casual and midpower tables. In Legacy and Vintage he's legal but irrelevant; five mana for a planeswalker that doesn't immediately win the game doesn't compete with what those formats are doing on turns one through three. Oathbreaker is the one other format worth noting, where he can serve as the planeswalker commander himself in a dedicated green-value shell, though his power level there is moderate at best.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Body of ResearchGarruk, Primal Hunter
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers
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Current price
$1.66 cheap tier
At $1.66, Garruk, Primal Hunter sits in the cheap tier — effectively a bulk mythic, which makes him an easy inclusion for any green Commander deck that wants planeswalker value without budget pressure. That price reflects his power level honestly: strong in casual Commander, invisible everywhere else.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.