Card
Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed
Mana cost {3}{G} //
Legendary Planeswalker — Garruk // Legendary Planeswalker — Garruk
When Garruk has two or fewer loyalty counters on him, transform him. 0: Garruk deals 3 damage to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to him. 0: Create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token. // +1: Create a 1/1 black Wolf creature token with deathtouch. −1: Sacrifice a creature. If you do, search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. −3: Creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
Part of 3 known combos. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · ISD · #181
- Cheapest printing
- €0.70
- EDHREC salt
- 0.47
- Color identity
- Black, Green
- Keywords
- Transform
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — counts toward 2 tutors (Lotus Vault house cap): Counts toward the 2 tutors allowed (Lotus Vault house cap)
- B2 Core — counts toward 2 tutors (Lotus Vault house cap): Counts toward the 2 tutors allowed (Lotus Vault house cap)
- B3 Upgraded — counts toward 4 tutors (Lotus Vault house cap): Counts toward the 4 tutors allowed (Lotus Vault house cap)
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Nonland tutor, two at most in brackets 1–2 and four in bracket 3 (Lotus Vault house cap)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
3 known combos.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2011-09-22 · Wizards of the Coast
Only creatures you control when the third ability of Garruk, the Veil-Cursed resolves will receive the bonus. Creatures that enter or that you gain control of later in the turn won't be affected. - 2011-09-22 · Wizards of the Coast
The number of creature cards in your graveyard is counted when the third ability of Garruk, the Veil-Cursed resolves. Once the ability resolves, the bonus doesn't change if that number changes later in the turn. - 2011-09-22 · Wizards of the Coast
You can't activate a loyalty ability of Garruk Relentless and later that turn after he transforms activate a loyalty ability of Garruk, the Veil-Cursed. - 2011-09-22 · Wizards of the Coast
Garruk Relentless's first ability is a state-triggered ability. It triggers once Garruk has two or fewer loyalty counters on him and it can't retrigger while that ability is on the stack. - 2011-09-22 · Wizards of the Coast
The second ability of Garruk, the Veil-Cursed doesn't target a creature. However, when that ability resolves, you must sacrifice a creature if you control one. - 2011-09-22 · Wizards of the Coast
You don't add or remove loyalty counters from Garruk Relentless when he transforms into Garruk, the Veil-Cursed. In most cases, he'll have one or two loyalty counters on him.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast