Dirtcowl Wurm
Creature — Wurm
Whenever an opponent plays a land, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Battle Royale Box Set
- Price
- $3.33
- EDHREC rank
- #15348
Dirtcowl Wurm enters as a 3/3 and grows a +1/+1 counter every time an opponent plays a land — in a four-player game, that snowballs fast without you spending another card. The cost is five mana for a body that does nothing the turn it arrives, which is a real ask outside of Baru, Wurmspeaker decks where the Wurm type and the counter synergies pay off the investment.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Baru, Wurmspeaker
Baru, Wurmspeaker pumps Wurms and can reanimate them from the graveyard, making Dirtcowl Wurm a recursive threat that gets bigger every time any opponent hits a land drop — the counter accumulation and the Wurm typing both pull full weight here.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dirtcowl Wurm is a Commander card, full stop. In a four-player pod, three opponents making land drops every turn means the Wurm can reach genuinely threatening size by turn eight without any additional investment, which justifies the five-mana entry fee. Legacy and Vintage are legal on paper, but a vanilla-adjacent five-drop with no immediate impact has no path to those tables. Oathbreaker is theoretically legal too, but the smaller life totals and faster clocks make a do-nothing-on-entry creature a liability.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$3.33 cheap tier
At $3.33, Dirtcowl Wurm sits in budget-rare territory — cheap enough to slot in without deliberation, but niche enough that demand stays narrow and the price reflects it. It holds value as long as Baru, Wurmspeaker remains the primary home; outside that commander, there's not much pulling the price upward.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.