Waning Wurm
Creature — Zombie Wurm
Vanishing 2 (This creature enters with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #18700
Waning Wurm lands as a 7/6 for two mana — one of the most efficient bodies in black — with the drawback that it enters tapped and loses a -1/-1 counter each upkeep, shrinking toward irrelevance unless you have a plan for those counters. Under Abigale, Eloquent First-Year, that drawback flips into a feature, making this a staple rather than a liability.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year turns every -1/-1 counter leaving a creature into an engine trigger, so Waning Wurm's built-in counter erosion becomes a recurring resource rather than a clock — nearly half of all Abigale decks run it for exactly this reason.
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 |
Waning Wurm is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's Commander where it actually sees play. In Legacy and Vintage, a two-mana 7/6 with no immediate impact and a self-destruct timer is too slow and too fragile against the interaction density of those formats. Modern has cheaper, cleaner threats that don't require counter synergies to justify the slot. In Commander, the -1/-1 counter mechanic slots cleanly into dedicated counter-matters builds, and the sheer stat line is relevant in a multiplayer format where raw power-to-cost ratio matters more than in one-on-one.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Waning Wurm is firmly bulk — easy to pick up without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow synergy homes tend to stay cheap indefinitely, so there's no urgency in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.