Eh, I'd still rather have a Wild Mongrel :P
Joking aside, Tarmgoyf is an excellent creature, but there ARE ways to deal with it - it's not an auto-win in the same league as Umezawa's Jitte.
@ TokenMaster, AbyssalManZero, Hovercraft and various other people:
The fact that Tarmogoyf 'dies to removal' is not a bad thing. The point is that people who go 'OMG Tarmogoyf is unbeatable and overpowered and should be banned!' are tiresome fools - I count roughly 25 cards in M10 alone which single-handedly nullify it. Tarmogoyf is powerful but ultimately fair. It's above the curve but has no protection and while it's undoubtedly one of the very best cards printed in recent years, it is absolutely NOT the case that casting it equals winning. I can only ạssume the people who consider Tarmogoyf unfair don't remember how dominant cards like Jitte, Psychatog or Tolarian Acadamy were in their day, cards which frankly... (see all)
Posted By:
stygimoloch
(2/11/2010 6:26:55 PM)
Overrated.....
Posted By:
Robert_G
(6/7/2010 8:42:04 PM)
Tarmogoyf isnt as broken as everyone thinks. Its basically vanilla, it has no protection for itsself except a big butt and no evasion except a low CMC. Its a GOOD card dont get me wrong, but its not as broken as everyone thinks.
Posted By:
Shoe2
(11/14/2008 12:14:59 PM)
why is the planeswalker type printed in this cards reminder text? there were no planeswalkers in its time!
Posted By:
Tezz
(5/13/2010 1:37:40 PM)
WHAT is with this CARD!?
I don't get it. How is this a tournament winner? What is all the hype about it? Why is it *imperative* to have 4 in every green deck? I simply have to comment on this card and bring up some things because I can't stand it how everybody is drooling and having seizures over it.
Sure, it gets bigger as the game goes on, but the biggest it can get is 8/9, and that's even assuming that there is at least every card type between both decks AND they are drawn, played, and split between the graveyards. Not all decks have planeswalkers, and they have to be destroyed somehow, or atricfacts, especially in the graveyard, OR ENCHANTMENTS, especially in the graveyard, OR TRIBALS in the entire deck, OR LANDS IN THE GRAVEYARD!!. And, even so, this may take many, many turns, enough so that later on even if he is 8/9, he won't be too nasty anyway compared to some of the other huge green creatures out there (or in any other color) My 3 most powerful decks ha... (see all)
Posted By:
CorkBulb
(8/27/2012 3:14:48 AM)
The best "Vanilla" creature ever printed. 2 mana 3/4's seem okay to me.
Posted By:
Makoeyesx
(9/9/2009 8:44:07 PM)
@ NoobOfLore:
"Think about it this way: If you drew this during a draft, how dangerous would it be in your deck? If you just toss it in any beatdown deck, does it make the deck better? It's not a card that needs to be built around, but it does need to be supported by a deck that's already really expensive."
If you pluck a $100 card out of a $15 draft, who cares if playing it in your otherwise terrible draft deck loses you the draft. You get to play 6 more drafts with some change left over for the resale value of Goyf. But screw that, just hug your Goyf close to you. You will want to put him in any and every eternal format deck you create, because he's amazing in all 3 of the eternal formats he's legal in.
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(10/15/2011 12:41:12 AM)
Wild mongrel kicks his butt anyday
Posted By:
RamzaFromIvalice
(12/14/2009 4:50:10 PM)
turn 1: Hedron crab
turn 2: land, this
Posted By:
iSlapTrees
(5/24/2011 10:30:16 AM)
Turn 1: Misty Rainforest, sacrifice it, get breeding pool, pay 2 life. Thought scour, drop wurmcoil engine and all is dust in the graveyard, draw into tarmogoyf, use two elvish spirit guides, play tarmogoyf as a 6/7
Living the dream
Posted By:
shotoku64
(2/1/2013 2:44:17 PM)