Winding Wurm
Creature — Wurm
Echo 
(At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #30760
Winding Wurm is a 6/6 for five mana with a comes-into-play drawback that shrinks it to a 4/4 unless you meet a condition — a bad deal by any modern standard. There are strictly better vanilla and near-vanilla green creatures at every point on the curve.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Winding Wurm is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality is not the same as playability. In Commander, five mana for a conditionally undersized creature with no ETB value, no evasion, and no text beyond a downside is not a card that makes the 99. In Pauper, where green has access to efficient common threats with actual utility, Winding Wurm doesn't compete. Legacy and Vintage don't want it at all.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Winding Wurm is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a commons box, not a deck. That price reflects its play value accurately, and there's no pressure in any direction on it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.