Our Big Daddy from the Forest is Back! Throne of Eldraine finally gave a home to Garruk after several sets of missing in action. That is after he lost the battle to Liliana Vess and got cursed as a result. Anyway, we see him back with some good ol new loyalty abilites so we check out his card below: Garruk, Cursed Hunstman

The card text reads:

[0]: Create two 2/2 black and green Wolf creature tokens with “When this creature dies, put a loyalty counter on each Garruk you control.”

[-3]: Destroy target creature. Draw a card.

[-6]: You get an emblem with “Creatures you control get +3/+3 and have trample.”

Analyzing the card, you can see right away that it fulfill the prerequisites of a good planeswalker: it can protect itself and has threat removal. The two Wolf tokens can be a relevant board advantage in the late game (with Garruk’s six mana cost) and that it converts then to loyalty counters when deal with.

The Destroy creature removal is the card’s only cantrip and is also good as you can dig for more card advantage while retaining Garruk in the battlefield.

The -6 Emblem looks to be a permanent Overrun which works well if you have it in a Green stompy-like strategy.

The card’s price range might be closer to that of Liliana in WAR and Chandra in M20 in the initial release but I think it would stabilize at nearing 1k php.

To conclude, we are just glad that he is back and I cannot wait to be casting him in my planned Abzan Kethis deck in the post-rotation Standard.

Until the next blog post.