Spined Wurm
Creature — Wurm
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Eighth Edition
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #23656
Spined Wurm puts a 5/4 body on the board for five mana — acceptable stats in a vacuum, unacceptable in a format where five mana buys you creatures that also draw cards, ramp, or end games. It's a vanilla beater in an era that stopped accepting vanilla beaters.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Spined Wurm is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Pauper it's the most relevant — commons-only means the competition is thinner, though even there a 5/4 with no text struggles to justify a slot over creatures with actual abilities. In Commander, 100-card singleton and four opponents mean you need every card to pull weight, and Spined Wurm pulls nothing beyond its power and toughness. Legacy and Vintage are non-conversations; those formats don't register a vanilla five-drop.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Spined Wurm sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you find in a common box at the bottom of a card shop. It holds no financial value and won't gain any; bulk vanillas don't appreciate.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.