Balustrade Wurm
Creature — Wurm
This spell can't be countered.
Trample, haste
Delirium — 
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard and only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #12607
Balustrade Wurm lands as a 4/5 reach body and immediately fetches a basic land into play — solid rate for six mana, but nothing that breaks open a game on its own. In Baru, Wurmspeaker builds it earns its slot by triggering Baru's size-doubling ability while keeping your land count honest; everywhere else, it's a fine role-player that rarely justifies a slot over faster threats.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Baru, Wurmspeaker
Baru, Wurmspeaker cares about having the biggest Wurm on board, and Balustrade Wurm shows up as a real-sized creature that also ramps — the landfall trigger on entry means you're advancing your board and your mana in one shot, which is exactly the tempo Baru lists want from every slot.
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 |
Balustrade Wurm is legal across every major constructed format, but it sees essentially zero competitive play outside Commander — six mana for a 4/5 with a basic-land fetch doesn't move the needle in Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy, where that investment needs to end the game or generate overwhelming advantage. In Commander it finds its home in mono-green or Simic Wurm tribal shells, specifically those built around Baru, Wurmspeaker, where tribal synergy and the free land drop combine to justify the cost. Elsewhere in Commander it's a budget option for ramp-light decks that need bodies and land fixing in one package, though it typically loses the slot to cheaper or more explosive options.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Balustrade Wurm sits firmly in bulk territory and is unlikely to climb unless Wurm tribal sees a spike in popularity. Pick it up freely — at this price the question is never cost, just whether the slot is worth it.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.