Garruk's Warsteed
Creature — Rhino
Vigilance
When this creature enters, you may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Garruk, Savage Herald, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Core Set 2021
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #25734
Garruk's Warsteed is a 4/4 with trample and a enters-the-battlefield tutor for any creature card with power 4 or greater — real stats plus immediate card advantage for five mana. The cost is a single green pip and the top-of-curve slot, both of which most midrange green decks are willing to pay.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Garruk's Warsteed earns its slot in any green deck that chains big creatures — it finds your finisher, your next value engine, or whatever four-power piece the situation demands, and a 4/4 trample body isn't irrelevant while it does it. In competitive formats like Modern and Legacy it's too slow and too fair; five mana for a creature tutor that doesn't put the card into play is nowhere near the power those formats demand. Pioneer is the same story. Garruk's Warsteed lives almost entirely in the Commander world, where creature-heavy midrange and stompy strategies are happy to spend five mana on a threat that replaces itself with an upgrade.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Garruk's Warsteed is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not a display case. Bulk rares with narrow applications rarely climb, so don't hold copies expecting a rebound; just run it if it fits and move on.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.