Jungle Wurm
Creature — Wurm
Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mirage
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #30308
Jungle Wurm enters as a 5/5 for five mana, which clears the vanilla test — barely — but loses a -1/-1 counter each time a creature hits the board after it, meaning a four-player Commander game shreds it to nothing inside a turn cycle. It's outclassed by virtually every five-mana green threat that doesn't punish you for playing multiplayer.
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 |
Jungle Wurm is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Pauper it's the most relevant format — a 5/5 for five is passable at common, though the counter-loss clause still punishes any deck that isn't going wide with tokens before blocking. In Commander, the multiplayer environment is the worst possible home: three opponents developing boards means Jungle Wurm is often a 2/2 or smaller by the time your next turn arrives. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a vanilla-adjacent five-drop.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Jungle Wurm is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box, not a trade binder. There's no meaningful demand driver that would push this price upward, so treat it as a throwaway inclusion if a specific Pauper build ever calls for a big common body.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.