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Wurmcoil Engine

Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Wurm

Deathtouch, lifelink
When this creature dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{6}
Color identity
C
Rarity
mythic
Set
Scars of Mirrodin Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#1019
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Wurmcoil Engine card art
Wurmcoil Engine puts six power across two keywords on the board for six mana, and when it dies it replaces itself with two tokens that each carry one of those keywords — removal spells rarely come out ahead on this trade. Shells that can recur or copy it, from Nim Deathmantle loops to Baru, Wurmspeaker tribal buffs, push it from good to backbreaking.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Baru, Wurmspeaker

Baru, Wurmspeaker

69.2% of decks · synergy 0.67

Baru, Wurmspeaker doubles Wurmcoil Engine's power and toughness and lets you search it up directly — it's the deck that treats Wurmcoil Engine as a marquee piece rather than a utility inclusion.

02
Feldon of the Third Path

Feldon of the Third Path

65.6% of decks · synergy 0.62

Feldon of the Third Path makes a token copy of Wurmcoil Engine from the graveyard at the end of each combat, turning a single death trigger into a repeatable source of deathtouch and lifelink tokens every turn cycle.

03
Daretti, Scrap Savant

Daretti, Scrap Savant

65.5% of decks · synergy 0.61

Daretti, Scrap Savant can reanimate Wurmcoil Engine from the graveyard or filter it into the bin for later, making Wurmcoil Engine a recursive threat that the deck is happy to trade and recur indefinitely.

04
Aloy, Savior of Meridian

Aloy, Savior of Meridian

61.5% of decks · synergy 0.59

Aloy, Savior of Meridian benefits from high-impact artifacts with diverse keyword suites, and Wurmcoil Engine's combination of deathtouch, lifelink, and death-trigger redundancy slots cleanly into what that shell is doing.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Wurmcoil Engine is a staple — six mana for a creature this resistant to clean removal is efficient at a singleton table, and the token replacement clause means board wipes and spot removal both tend to leave value behind. In Legacy and Vintage, it sees play primarily in Metalworker and artifact-based prison builds that can deploy it well before turn six, where its life cushion and token production are meaningful in a damage race. Modern has supported it in Tron shells for years, where Urza's lands make six mana trivially available by turn three and Wurmcoil Engine's lifelink stabilizes against aggressive decks before closing the game. It's absent from Pioneer and Standard by legality, and Pauper can't touch it at rare.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data isn't available in the current context, so check Scryfall or your preferred vendor for a live number. Wurmcoil Engine has been reprinted several times across precon products and premium sets, so copies exist across a range of price points — foil and original printings command premiums, but a playable copy is rarely hard to find.

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