Arrogant Wurm
Creature — Wurm
Trample
Madness 
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #23859
Arrogant Wurm is a 4/4 trample for five that becomes a two-mana flash threat the moment you have a card in the graveyard — in the right shell, that's a steal. Outside of discard-synergy decks, it's a vanilla-adjacent creature at a cost that doesn't compete.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Pauper is where Arrogant Wurm has historically earned its keep — Madness decks that chain Basking Rootwalla and Wild Mongrel into a turn-two 4/4 trample are a real thing, and the card is a genuine payoff there. In Legacy it's legal but irrelevant; the Madness shell never broke through against the format's interaction density. Commander is the most common home today, and it slots cleanly into graveyard-matters or discard-synergy commanders — think Anje Falkenrath or Chainer, Nightmare Adept — where the Madness cost is reliably triggered. In any other Commander build, five mana for a 4/4 trample with no additional text is not a card you want.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
No current price data is available for Arrogant Wurm, but as a common with a narrow competitive application, copies tend to be inexpensive and easy to find in bulk. If you're building a Madness shell, it's worth picking up without hesitation — just don't pay a premium for a foil.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.