Harvest Wurm
Creature — Wurm
When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you return a basic land card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- World Championship Decks 1997
- Price
- $0.50
- EDHREC rank
- #25886
Harvest Wurm is a 3/2 for two mana — solid stats — but the drawback is real: it only enters the battlefield if you return a basic land from your graveyard to your hand, meaning it's dead in your opening hand unless you've already lost a land. It's a payoff for self-mill and land-sacrifice strategies, not a generic beater.
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 |
Harvest Wurm is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it's a role-player in a narrow archetype everywhere it shows up. In Commander, the card finds its best home in landfall and self-mill decks that are already throwing lands into the graveyard through fetchlands, Evolving Wilds, or effects like Azusa, Lost but Seeking — without that setup, Harvest Wurm is often a blank. In Pauper it's technically castable but competes in a format where two-mana creatures are expected to do more than recycle a basic. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.50 bulk tier
At $0.50, Harvest Wurm sits in true bulk territory — you're paying for the physical card, not any real demand. It won't appreciate; this is a card you pull from a bulk bin when you need the specific effect, not one you stock up on.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.