edhseer Commander synergy, explained

Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed

Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed

Legendary Planeswalker — Garruk // Legendary Planeswalker — Garruk

Mana cost: {3}{G}

How we read this card

When Garruk has two or fewer loyalty counters on him, transform him.

triggered —

Garruk deals 3 damage to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to him.

activated 0 — deals 3 damage

activated 0 — deals its power damage

Create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token.

activated 0 — makes a token

Create a 1/1 black Wolf creature token with deathtouch.

activated +1 — makes a token

Sacrifice a creature. If you do, search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

activated −1 —

activated −1 — searches a library

activated −1 —

Creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

activated −3 — grants a keyword

activated −3 — gives +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard

Causes: transform anything, a creature deals noncombat damage, anything deals noncombat damage, create a Wolf creature token, put a Wolf creature token onto the battlefield, sacrifice a creature, a creature dies, search creature , shuffle a library.

Cares about: a creature to sacrifice, a creature in a graveyard.

Works well with

anything leaves the battlefield — 1 card in the game can cause this (Garruk Relentless is one).

  1. Gollum, Patient Plotter — When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield thanks to Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed, it has the Ring tempt you
  2. Chainer, Dementia Master — When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield thanks to Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed, it exiles a Nightmare

a Wolf enters the battlefield — 198 cards in the game can cause this (Garruk Relentless is one).

When a Wolf enters thanks to Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed:

  1. Tolsimir, Friend to Wolves — gains you 3 life
  2. Chief of the Wilds — puts 2 +1/+1 counters on itself

a planeswalker it grants abilities to — 312 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Way of the Deathbringer — Way of the Deathbringer gives Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed an extra ability
  2. Way of the Wildspeaker — Way of the Wildspeaker gives Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed an extra ability

310 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a planeswalker is cast — 361 cards in the game can cause this (Garruk Relentless is one).

When Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed is cast:

  1. Jaya's Phoenix — returns itself from the graveyard
  2. Interplanar Beacon — gains you 1 life
  3. Defiler of Vigor — puts a counter on a creature
  4. Defiler of Flesh — gives +1/+1
  5. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  6. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  7. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  8. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  9. Summon: Good King Mog XII — makes a token
  10. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

239 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a planeswalker enters the battlefield — 366 cards in the game can cause this (Garruk Relentless is one).

  1. Liliana the Repentant — When a Wolf enters thanks to Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed, Liliana the Repentant mills a card
  2. Liliana the Faultless — When a Wolf enters thanks to Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed, Liliana the Faultless gains you 1 life
  3. Builder's Talent — When Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed enters, Builder's Talent puts a counter on a creature
  4. Brainstealer Dragon — When a Wolf enters thanks to Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed, Brainstealer Dragon makes a player lose life equal to its mana value
  5. Cloudstone Curio — When a Wolf enters thanks to Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed, Cloudstone Curio triggers

a creature deals noncombat damage — 1,420 cards in the game can cause this (Garruk Relentless is one).

When a creature deals noncombat damage thanks to Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed:

  1. Soul Link — gains you that much life
  2. Tandem Lookout — draws you 1 card
  3. Armadillo Cloak — gains you that much life
  4. Vampiric Link — gains you that much life
  5. Spirit Loop — gains you that much life
  6. Spirit Link — gains you that much life
  7. Guilty Conscience — deals that much damage
  8. Visions of Brutality — makes a player lose life equal to that much
  9. Arm with Aether — triggers

13 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature is sacrificed — 1,714 cards in the game can cause this (Garruk Relentless is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed:

  1. Fumulus, the Infestation — makes a token
  2. Bag of Devouring — exiles it

a creature is sacrificed — 1,741 cards in the game can cause this (Garruk Relentless is one).

When a creature is sacrificed thanks to Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed:

  1. Ziatora, the Incinerator — deals that creature's power damage
  2. Dina, Essence Brewer — draws you 1 card
  3. Fleshtaker — gains you 1 life
  4. Body Dropper — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  5. Smothering Abomination — draws you 1 card
  6. Kels, Fight Fixer — draws you 1 card
  7. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — triggers
  8. Grist, the Hunger Tide — kills a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls
  9. Cabal Therapist — triggers
  10. Rakdos, the Muscle — exiles a card from an opponent's library

20 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

provide a creature to sacrifice — 2,720 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Birthing Ritual — Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed makes fodder for Birthing Ritual

2,719 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Havengul Lich — Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed puts cards into the graveyard that Havengul Lich can bring back
  2. Paleoloth — Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed puts cards into the graveyard that Paleoloth can bring back
  3. Chainer, Nightmare Adept — Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed puts cards into the graveyard that Chainer, Nightmare Adept can bring back
  4. Banon, the Returners' Leader — Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed puts cards into the graveyard that Banon, the Returners' Leader can bring back
  5. Surgical Suite // Hospital Room — Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed puts cards into the graveyard that Surgical Suite // Hospital Room can bring back
  6. Sword of Light and Shadow — Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed puts cards into the graveyard that Sword of Light and Shadow can bring back
  7. Necromantic Thirst — Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed puts cards into the graveyard that Necromantic Thirst can bring back
  8. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed puts cards into the graveyard that Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar can bring back
  9. Ruthless Technomancer — Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed puts cards into the graveyard that Ruthless Technomancer can bring back
  10. Forum Necroscribe — Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed puts cards into the graveyard that Forum Necroscribe can bring back
  11. Swarmborn Giant — When Swarmborn Giant is in the graveyard, Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed gets bigger
  12. Shriveling Rot — Shriveling Rot puts cards into the graveyard, and Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed gets bigger
  13. Foot Chopper — Foot Chopper puts cards into the graveyard, and Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed gets bigger
  14. Blasting Station — Blasting Station puts cards into the graveyard, and Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed gets bigger
  15. Lethal Vapors — Lethal Vapors puts cards into the graveyard, and Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed gets bigger
  16. Grave Peril — Grave Peril puts cards into the graveyard, and Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed gets bigger
  17. Spreading Plague — Spreading Plague puts cards into the graveyard, and Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed gets bigger
  18. Saw — Saw puts cards into the graveyard, and Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed gets bigger
  19. Hot Soup — Hot Soup puts cards into the graveyard, and Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed gets bigger
  20. Cracked Skull — Cracked Skull puts cards into the graveyard, and Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed gets bigger

1,492 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Garruk Relentless is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed:

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — makes a token
  2. Liesa, Forgotten Archangel — brings a card back
  3. Avacyn, Angel of Horror — brings a card back
  4. Yedora, Grave Gardener — brings a card back
  5. Nim Deathmantle — brings a card back
  6. Valkyrie's Call — brings a card back
  7. Decaying Soil — brings a card back

63 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Garruk Relentless is one).

  1. Ob Nixilis, Unshackled — When a creature dies thanks to Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed, Ob Nixilis, Unshackled puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

463 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Garruk Relentless is one).

Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed:

  1. Charnelhoard Wurm — puts cards into the graveyard that Charnelhoard Wurm can bring back
  2. Havi, the All-Father — fills your graveyard toward the 4 or more cards Havi, the All-Father needs

442 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.