Garruk, Unleashed

Strategy & Gameplay

Garruk, Unleashed is a versatile green planeswalker from M21 that brings both aggressive tempo and long-term value to any green-based strategy. At just four mana for a planeswalker, this card offers excellent rate efficiency and immediately impacts the board, making it a compelling inclusion across multiple deck archetypes and formats. The +1 ability provides pump and trample to a target creature, offering meaningful offense in the early game while helping push through damage in the mid-game, particularly valuable when you're racing or trying to overcome blockers. This flexibility means Garruk fits seamlessly into aggressive green strategies, stompy decks, and even midrange creatures shells where you're already deploying substantial threats and need to turn them sideways for damage. The −2 ability creates a steady stream of 3/3 Beast tokens while offering defensive utility that scales with board complexity. This mode particularly shines in creature-heavy matchups where Garruk can generate value during parity situations, and the conditional loyalty counter triggers reward you for being behind on board presence, making this planeswalker resilient against aggressive strategies. Most impressively, the −7 ultimate emblem provides repeatable creature tutoring at the end step, effectively creating a powerful value engine that tutors threats directly into play and generates significant advantage over subsequent turns. This planeswalker is legal across virtually every competitive and casual format, from Pioneer and Modern through Commander and Brawl, making it an excellent addition to your collection for multiple format applications and future-proof gameplay.