Panglacial Wurm
Creature — Wurm
Trample
While you're searching your library, you may cast this card from your library.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $2.84
- EDHREC rank
- #11343
Panglacial Wurm is a free 9/5 trample that you cast off a tutor trigger — the cost is a seven-mana sticker that only matters if your library search gets countered or you hardcast it without setup. In Baru, Wurmspeaker specifically, it's not a corner-case trick; it's a primary threat you're already finding for free while searching for something else.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Baru, Wurmspeaker
Baru, Wurmspeaker's ability to pump and copy Wurms makes Panglacial Wurm a free upgrade to every Cultivate and Kodama's Reach you cast — you're already searching, so the Wurm just shows up, and Baru immediately makes it larger or doubles it.
Radha, Heir to Keld
Radha, Heir to Keld generates mana during combat, which sets up the search triggers that let Panglacial Wurm slip onto the battlefield without paying its full cost, turning Radha's combat step into a threat-deployment engine.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Panglacial Wurm belongs — green decks run dense suites of land tutors, fetch effects, and Sylvan Library-style searchers, and every one of them is a potential free cast. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but irrelevant: the formats move too fast for a seven-mana creature with no immediate protection, and the search windows are too narrow to reliably trigger it. Modern has the same problem at a slower speed — without a critical mass of on-demand library searches, Panglacial Wurm just sits in hand. Play it in Commander, ignore it everywhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.84 cheap tier
At $2.84, Panglacial Wurm sits at the low end of the rare price range for a card with a genuinely unique ability. Demand is narrow — it's almost exclusively a Baru, Wurmspeaker card — so the price reflects that ceiling, and it's unlikely to spike without a new Wurm-tribal or search-matters commander pushing volume.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.