_____ Bird Gets the Worm
Creature — Bird Guest
Flying
When this creature enters, you may put a name sticker on it. You gain X life, where X is the number of unique vowels on that sticker. (The vowels are A, E, I, O, U, and Y.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Unfinity
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #29737
_____ Bird Gets the Worm tutors a creature directly onto the battlefield — no mana cost paid, no waiting — making it one of the most efficient cheat-into-play effects ever printed. The four restrictions stapled to it are real, but in Commander they rarely matter enough to leave this card out of the right deck.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | banned |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | banned |
| pauper | banned |
| oathbreaker | banned |
_____ Bird Gets the Worm is banned in Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, which tells you everything about its ceiling when restrictions are loose. The card carries four conditions — all of which exist to keep it from being a free Entomb-plus-reanimate every game — but Commander's singleton rule, slower goldfish speed, and 40-life clock change the math considerably. You're not casting this four times in a combo chain; you're resolving it once at the right moment, and the four hoops are easy enough to clear in a dedicated shell that the effect is still backbreaking. Commander is the one format where the restrictions land in the sweet spot: tight enough that the card isn't oppressive, loose enough that it's still worth building around.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
No current price data is available for _____ Bird Gets the Worm, so check your preferred retailer or the secondary market directly before buying. Given its ban status in every competitive format, Commander demand is the primary price driver — supply tends to be limited and spikes are possible if a popular new commander pushes the card into the spotlight.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.