Review of Garruk Wildspeaker *** Maybe I'm just grumpy.

My biggest complaint about Planeswalkers is that they are not easily defended. You would practically have to build your deck around defending this card, and in my opinion, that is not such a great idea. It should be noted, that though this cards casting cost is 4, you can do its +1 ability right away and untap 2 lands, and that these two lands can be any color, if you are playing a multicolor deck. This means, the actual casting cost of Garruk Wildspeaker is more like 2 mana. It’s -1 ability isn’t that great. A single 3/3 beast generally isn’t good for much, meaning that there really isn’t much difference between a 3/3 beast and a 1/1, as both are usually capable of blocking in the same way. In my opinion, a card has to have a power of 4 in order to be an attacker. Garruk Wildspeaker’s -4 ability is pretty cool though. If Garruk Wildspeaker is played, you will need a way to defend it or else your opponent can easily wipe it out. Thus, as a strategy, it would probably be a bad idea to have other cards with trample or that give trample in a deck along with Garruk Wildspeaker. That would be redundant and you wouldn’t be maximizing your deck. I’ll also add that I love the artwork on this card.