Garruk, Unleashed
Legendary Planeswalker — Garruk
+1: Up to one target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn.
−2: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Then if an opponent controls more creatures than you, put a loyalty counter on Garruk.
−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, you may search your library for a creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle."
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Core Set 2021
- Price
- $1.56
- EDHREC rank
- #7984
Garruk, Unleashed lands and immediately threatens a 3/3 Beast token or pumps your biggest creature — real pressure for four mana. The ceiling is his ultimate, which is genuinely game-ending in creature-heavy decks, but Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider is the card that makes him absurd by doubling every loyalty counter he enters with.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider doubles the counters Garruk, Unleashed enters with and doubles every activation, which means the ultimate is reachable in two turns instead of five — that's not incremental value, that's a fundamentally different card.
Carth the Lion
Carth the Lion adds a loyalty counter to every planeswalker on entry and lets you dig for them when he attacks, so Garruk, Unleashed enters ahead of schedule and ultimates faster in a deck already built to chain walkers.
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, Unleashed earns his slot in any green creature deck that wants a token producer, a pump effect, and an inevitable late-game threat stapled together on one card. He's not a build-around, but he pulls his weight across the whole game in a way most four-mana green planeswalkers don't. In Modern and Pioneer, five-loyalty planeswalkers at four mana face stiff competition from more format-warping options, and Garruk, Unleashed generally loses that comparison — he's fine but not format-defining. Legacy and Vintage don't want him at all; the format speed makes a four-mana walker a liability.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.56 cheap tier
At $1.56, Garruk, Unleashed sits firmly in budget territory — you're getting a functional, multi-modal planeswalker for less than a pack. That price is likely a floor given how broadly playable he is in Commander creature shells, so picking him up now carries little risk.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.