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Wormfang Newt

Creature — Nightmare Salamander Beast

When this creature enters, exile a land you control.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Judgment
Price
$0.15
EDHREC rank
#24151
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Wormfang Newt card art
Wormfang Newt enters and exiles a land you control — free ETB triggers on demand, at the cost of a tempo hit you have to plan around. The payoff is real in blink and flicker shells, and Princess Yue turns the exile clause into a straight advantage engine rather than a drawback.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Wormfang Newt is a Commander card through and through — the format's density of ETB payoffs, blink effects, and sacrifice loops is exactly the environment where a two-mana creature that punishes itself on entry becomes exploitable. In Pauper it's legal but the combo infrastructure is thinner and the land exile is a steeper cost at common power levels. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but no competitive reason to run it — faster, cleaner options exist for any role it might fill.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.15 bulk tier

At $0.15, Wormfang Newt is deep bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. Bulk combo pieces at this price rarely spike unless they land in a widely-covered list, so treat it as a stable, permanent throw-in.

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