Aberrant Manawurm
Creature — Wurm
Trample
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the amount of mana spent to cast that spell.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #26082
Aberrant Manawurm enters the battlefield and immediately replaces itself with mana, making it a threat that costs you nothing to deploy in the right shell. The ceiling is real in decks that care about spell count or creature ETBs, and the floor is a vanilla body — which is the only reason to hesitate.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Aberrant Manawurm earns a slot in storm, spellslinger, and artifact-creature synergy decks that want bodies and mana in the same package. It's legal across every major constructed format — Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — but Aberrant Manawurm is unlikely to crack competitive lists in any of them, where the bar for a creature this size is set by far more efficient options. Commander remains its best home by a wide margin, specifically in high-density spell decks where the mana refund compounds quickly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Aberrant Manawurm is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking twice. That price is unlikely to move meaningfully unless a future combo piece pushes it into demand, so there's no urgency in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.