Garruk's Gorehorn
Creature — Beast
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Core Set 2021
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #11700
Garruk's Gorehorn puts a 7/4 body on the board for five mana — that's above-rate stats, and the vanilla downside barely registers in decks built to ignore it. Outside of Jasmine Boreal of the Seven and a handful of similar commanders, the lack of text is a real cost that most decks won't pay.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Jasmine Boreal of the Seven
Jasmine Boreal of the Seven turns the no-abilities clause from a liability into a feature, and Garruk's Gorehorn's 7/4 statline is exactly the kind of oversized vanilla threat the deck wants to flood the board with.
Ruxa, Patient Professor
Ruxa, Patient Professor buffs creatures with no abilities and grants them trample, which means Garruk's Gorehorn becomes a 8/5 trampler for five mana — a closing threat that demands an immediate answer.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Garruk's Gorehorn is a bulk rare in every format that allows it, and that's the honest summary. In Commander, it belongs exclusively in Jasmine Boreal of the Seven or Ruxa, Patient Professor shells where the vanilla clause is load-bearing — everywhere else, five mana for a do-nothing 7/4 loses badly to comparably costed creatures with actual text. Pauper and the 60-card formats have no archetype that rewards vanilla bodies at this mana cost, so it sees essentially zero play there. The card is format-legal across the board, but legality and playability are different things.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Garruk's Gorehorn is deep bulk — buy it without thinking if you're building the right deck. That price reflects exactly what it is: a niche roleplayer with a small target audience, and it won't move unless a new vanilla-matters commander pushes demand.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.