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Wick, the Whorled Mind

Legendary Creature — Rat Warlock

Whenever Wick or another Rat you control enters, create a 1/1 black Snail creature token if you don't control a Snail. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on a Snail you control.
{U}{B}{R}, Sacrifice a Snail: Wick deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to each opponent. Then draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{B}
Color identity
BRU
Rarity
rare
Set
Bloomburrow Promos
Price
$0.75
EDHREC rank
#8627
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Wick, the Whorled Mind card art
Wick, the Whorled Mind lets you name a creature type and turn every creature you control into that type until end of turn — effectively a one-sided Conspiracy stapled to a body that costs four mana. The payoff is enormous in tribal decks that want to flood the board with synergies, and the price of admission is low enough that there's no reason not to run it if your deck cares about creature types at all.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Wick, the Whorled Mind is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games and tribal-matters commanders give it the most room to generate value. In Constructed formats like Standard, Pioneer, and Modern, it sees essentially no competitive play: four mana for a temporary type-assignment effect is too slow and too narrow when you can just build a clean tribal list. Legacy and Vintage ignore it for the same reasons, with those formats punishing anything that doesn't immediately reshape the board. Commander is where Wick, the Whorled Mind earns its slot, particularly as a combo enabler or as a way to unify a go-wide board under a single creature type for one explosive attack.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.75 bulk tier

At $0.75, Wick, the Whorled Mind sits firmly in bulk territory — low enough that it's an easy pickup for any tribal or combo Commander deck that can use it. That price is likely stable; the card has a narrow enough application that it won't spike without a new combo or tribal commander pushing it into the spotlight.

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