Tempting Wurm
Creature — Wurm
When this creature enters, each opponent may put any number of artifact, creature, enchantment, and/or land cards from their hand onto the battlefield.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $8.84
- EDHREC rank
- #12210
Tempting Wurm drops a 5/5 for two mana and hands every opponent a free permanent — which sounds disastrous until you're running The Beamtown Bullies or Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea and the chaos is the point. The risk is real, but in the right shell the upside of a two-mana 5/5 buries the downside.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Beamtown Bullies
The Beamtown Bullies is the premier home for Tempting Wurm because the Bullies can pitch it from hand, then force an opponent to attack with their own freshly gifted threat — turning the 'tempting' clause into fuel for the engine rather than a liability.
Phelddagrif
Phelddagrif leans into deliberate group-hug politics, and Tempting Wurm fits that philosophy: handing opponents free permanents generates goodwill and deal-making leverage, exactly the currency Phelddagrif decks spend to stay alive at the table.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Tempting Wurm is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer table is what makes the triggered ability interesting, since three opponents each landing a free permanent creates a chaotic board state you can build around or exploit. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but sees no competitive play; a two-mana 5/5 with a symmetrical downside doesn't fit the linear strategies those formats demand. Oathbreaker could find niche use in a chaos-oriented build, but the two-player-skewed nature of that format dulls the effect significantly. Stick to Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Gwenna, Eyes of GaeaCloudstone CurioSheltering AncientTempting Wurm
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite storm count
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Gwenna, Eyes of GaeaCloudstone CurioGrim WandererTempting Wurm
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite storm count
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Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Hunted Troll and Hunted Horror occupy a similar design space — cheap, oversized bodies that hand opponents something in return — and both cost under $1. The trade-off is that those cards give opponents creatures with specific keywords rather than any permanent from hand, so they're more predictable but less explosive than Tempting Wurm in a dedicated chaos or Bullies shell.
Price Context
Current price
$8.84 mid tier
At $8.84, Tempting Wurm sits in the mid tier — a real ask for a card whose power is highly commander-dependent. It holds that price on the back of The Beamtown Bullies demand, so if that commander falls out of favor, expect the price to soften.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.