Greater Tanuki
Enchantment Creature — Dog
Trample
Channel — 
, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #6684
Greater Tanuki puts a 6/5 trampler on the board and doubles as a land-fetching channel ability — two meaningful functions in one card slot. The six-mana sticker is real, but Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists turns it into a free trigger magnet that makes the cost irrelevant by mid-game.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists
Greater Tanuki is a staple in Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists decks because it hits both halves of what that commander rewards — it's a high-power creature that triggers the dig ability and a land-fetcher that keeps the mana engine churning. The 58% inclusion rate reflects that this is one of the clearest auto-includes in the archetype.
Sophia, Dogged Detective
Sophia, Dogged Detective cares about creatures entering and leaving, and Greater Tanuki's channel ability lets you cash it in for a land before it ever touches the battlefield — generating an evidence-style value loop without the creature needing to die to removal. It's a clean value piece in a deck that rewards flexible, multi-modal cards.
Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
Greater Tanuki hits the six-mana cascade threshold that Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty cares about, so it pulls double duty as both a cascade trigger and a trampling body that closes games. The channel mode also gives you an escape hatch if the board is locked down and you need the land more than the threat.
Wildsear, Scouring Maw
Wildsear, Scouring Maw wants high-power creatures to fuel its devour and sacrifice synergies, and Greater Tanuki's 6/5 body is exactly the kind of cheap-to-sacrifice, high-stat piece that feeds that engine efficiently. The channel mode adds optionality when Wildsear is offline.
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 |
In Commander, Greater Tanuki earns its slot in big-creature and cascade strategies — the channel ability smooths early mana while the body closes out mid-game boards. In Pauper, a 6/5 trample at common is above-rate for the format, and the land-fetch channel gives ramp decks a flexible top-end option worth testing. Modern and Pioneer have enough efficient threats that Greater Tanuki rarely makes the cut outside of niche Amulet-adjacent brews where fetching a specific land has outsized value. Legacy and Vintage don't want a six-mana creature without an immediate game-ending effect.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Greater Tanuki is firmly bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. Bulk rares with genuine Commander demand tend to stay in this range indefinitely unless a breakout deck pushes them, so don't expect movement.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.