Garruk, Caller of Beasts

Strategy & Gameplay

This six-mana green planeswalker represents one of the most powerful creature tutoring engines ever printed, offering exceptional card advantage and board development across multiple game formats. The +1 ability immediately draws you into creatures by revealing the top five cards of your library and placing every creature found directly into your hand, while sending non-creatures to the bottom in an order of your choosing. This repeatable selection effect builds your hand with action and helps filter your deck toward the threats you need. The −3 ability provides an efficient way to deploy a green creature from your hand at instant speed, allowing you to hold up mana while maintaining flexibility, or simply capitalize on the creatures you've accumulated through the planeswalker's first ability. The ultimate −7 emblem is where this card truly shines, transforming every creature spell you cast into a creature tutor, creating exponential value that can quickly overwhelm opponents. This card slots naturally into creature-heavy green decks, from ramp strategies in Commander that leverage the tutoring to accelerate into massive threats, to midrange Pioneer and Modern builds that capitalize on consistent creature generation. Green devotion decks and stompy archetypes particularly benefit from the consistent creature selection and deployment. Across all formats where it's legal—including Commander, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage—Garruk offers the kind of sustained advantage generation that justifies its mana investment, making it an excellent pick for players seeking reliable card advantage and creature acceleration in green-based strategies.