Garruk's Uprising

Garruk's Uprising is legal across every major constructed format but lives almost exclusively in Commander, where the combination of card draw and a blanket trample grant on a single enchantment is most exploitable over a long game. In Modern and Pioneer the three-mana setup cost is too slow for a format where games end on turn four, and the payoff requires a board state that aggressive decks never maintain long enough to matter. Standard occasionally sees fringe play in stompy builds where the ETB draw replaces itself and trample pushes through stalled boards, but it never approaches staple status. Commander is where Garruk's Uprising earns every slot — any deck running creatures with power 4 or greater gets free card draw and evasion stapled together, which is exactly the kind of passive value engine that grinds out multiplayer games.