Greater Tanuki

Greater Tanuki card image

Greater Tanuki: Enchantment Creature - Dog, Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{4}{G}{G}
Mana value
6
Type
Enchantment Creature - Dog
Colour identity
Green (G)
Power / toughness
6/5
Rarity
Common
Set
Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)
Released
2024-09-27
Collector number
181
Artist
Ilse Gort
Commander rank
7,471 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Channel, Trample

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About Greater Tanuki

Greater Tanuki is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common green enchantment creature from Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC), a Commander product released in September 2024. It is collector number 181 in that set, with art by Ilse Gort. It costs {4}{G}{G} (four generic and two green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 6/5 creature. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It has been printed in 4 sets, from The List (2020) to Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.26 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Trample

Channel - {2}{G}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The kami permit few mortals to dwell in Jukai Forest, but the clever, playful tanuki are welcomed as friends and guardians.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.26 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Greater Tanuki by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal

Other printings of Greater Tanuki

Greater Tanuki has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
The List (PLST) #NEO-189Common2024
Commander Masters (CMM) #897Common2023
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO) #189Common2022

Official rulings

Two official rulings apply to Greater Tanuki, newest first.

  • Discarding the card is part of the cost to activate a channel ability.
  • If a channel ability requires a target, you may not activate it without a target just to discard the card.

Similar cards

Other enchantment creature cards with a green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.

In these precons

Greater Tanuki is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.

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