Barbtooth Wurm
Creature — Wurm
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Starter 1999
- Price
- $0.71
- EDHREC rank
- #25358
Barbtooth Wurm is a 5/4 reach creature for six mana — reasonable stats, relevant keyword, forgettable ceiling. Six mana for a vanilla-adjacent body is a hard sell in any format where that slot competes with creatures that generate value on entry.
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 |
In Commander, Barbtooth Wurm sits at the bottom of the curve for green fatties — reach matters occasionally against flier-heavy decks, but six mana buys you far more threatening bodies with enters-the-battlefield effects. Pauper is the only format where Barbtooth Wurm earns genuine consideration, since the card pool shrinks enough that a 5/4 reach at common can do real blocking and attacking work in slower green stompy shells. Legacy and Vintage are legal on paper but irrelevant in practice — those formats don't run six-mana 5/4s without an engine attached. Oathbreaker shares Commander's problem: the 58-card deck still has access to better options at this cost.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.71 bulk tier
At $0.71, Barbtooth Wurm is bulk with a price tag that reflects exactly what it is. There's no meaningful demand driver to push it higher, so treat it as a throw-in rather than a pickup.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.