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Voracious Wurm

Creature — Wurm

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the amount of life you've gained this turn.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Magic 2014
Price
$0.17
EDHREC rank
#20560
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Voracious Wurm card art
Voracious Wurm enters as a 2/2 and scales directly with how much life you've gained — in a dedicated lifegain shell it regularly lands as a 10/10 or larger for two mana. Baru, Wurmspeaker doubles down on the payoff by making every Wurm you cast a threat, and Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight generates the kind of repeated lifegain that turns Voracious Wurm into a closing threat on its own.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Baru, Wurmspeaker

Baru, Wurmspeaker

15.0% of decks · synergy 0.15

Baru, Wurmspeaker makes every Wurm spell relevant at a tribal level, and Voracious Wurm regularly enters as one of the largest creatures in that deck — Baru's static buff then pushes it even further out of bolt range while giving it trample to close games.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Voracious Wurm is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but outside of Commander it sees essentially no competitive play — a 2/2 floor for two mana doesn't meet the rate Modern or Pioneer demand, and dedicated lifegain builds in those formats have access to more efficient payoffs. Commander is where Voracious Wurm actually lives: in a 100-card singleton format, any deck that generates large chunks of life repeatedly can deploy a massive creature on turn two, and that's a real threat. It's not a format staple, but in the right Commander build it punches well above its humble casting cost.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of TwilightAltar of DementiaVoracious Wurm

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of TwilightAltar of DementiaVoracious Wurm

Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite self-mill; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite mill

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Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of TwilightPhantom TrainVoracious Wurm

Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of TwilightPhantom TrainVoracious Wurm

Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers

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Price Context

Current price

$0.17 bulk tier

At $0.17, Voracious Wurm is bulk — the kind of card you pick up as an afterthought when sleeving a lifegain Commander deck. That price is unlikely to move unless a future Commander precon or high-profile decklist pushes demand, so there's no urgency to acquire copies.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.