Sandworm
Creature — Worm
Haste
When this creature enters, destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Final Fantasy
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #18660
Sandworm is a five-mana 7/6 with vigilance that can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control — a genuinely threatening body with built-in protection that forces opponents to answer it on the board rather than in the stack. River Song decks run it in over 28% of lists because it dodges targeted removal while attacking freely, which is exactly the kind of redundant threat that grinds out games.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
River Song
River Song rewards piling high-impact creatures that dodge interaction, and Sandworm delivers both — it can't be targeted by opponents, so it survives the spot removal that would otherwise clean up a 7/6 vigilance attacker before it connects.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Sandworm earns its slot in decks that want large hexproof-adjacent bodies that attack without tapping down your defenses — vigilance on a 7/6 is genuinely relevant in a four-player game. Outside Commander, the competition is brutal: Modern and Pioneer are full of creatures that do more for less, and Sandworm's ward-light protection doesn't compensate for not affecting the board immediately. In Legacy and Vintage, it simply doesn't register. Standard is the one other place it could see fringe play if the format lacks clean answers to large untargetable bodies, but even there it's fighting for a five-mana slot in a format that rewards efficiency.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Sandworm is deep bulk — you'll find copies in any bulk bin or as a throw-in. That price is stable because demand is narrow and supply is not, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
- River Song
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.