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Garruk, Cursed Huntsman

· Legendary Planeswalker — Garruk · Throne of Eldraine (ELD)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

222

Decks Running

101

In Decks

738

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Garruk, Cursed Huntsman

Legendary Planeswalker — Garruk

0: Create two 2/2 black and green Wolf creature tokens with "When this token 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."

Loyalty 5

Throne of Eldraine (ELD) · Mythic · Illustrated by Eric Deschamps

Final zone distribution

64 instances

3.1%

Library

37.5%

Battlefield

29.7%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hazel of the Rootbloom 32 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 16 decks
3 Chief of the Wilds 8 decks
4 Carth the Lion 5 decks
5 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 4 decks
6 Ygra, Eater of All 4 decks
7 Camellia, the Seedmiser 3 decks
8 Sarulf, Realm Eater 3 decks
9 Xavier Sal, Infested Captain 3 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

222 brought · 95 players

Brought to game

222

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -23.6pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=36) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=133).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=16) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -9.6pp; 95% confidence interval -23.6pp to +4.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

13%

10%

57%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 45% (9 / 40 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

40 of 100 times cast 40%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.