Wurmquake
Sorcery
Corrupted — Create an X/X green Phyrexian Wurm creature token with trample and toxic 1, where X is the amount of mana spent to cast this spell. Then for each opponent with three or more poison counters, you create another one of those tokens.
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander
- Price
- $0.38
- EDHREC rank
- #13095
Wurmquake drops a Wurm token for every mana spent to cast it — at full price, that's twelve power across six bodies before the board wipe even resolves. The cost is the cost: twelve mana is a serious ask, but Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa lets you cast it off corrupted triggers without touching your own resources, making the price tag someone else's problem.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa
Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa exiles cards from opponents and lets you cast them, which means Wurmquake can hit the table for free — twelve mana of token production funded entirely by your opponent's deck.
Vishgraz, the Doomhive
Vishgraz, the Doomhive cares about Phyrexian tokens and poison counters, and Wurmquake's pile of Wurm tokens gives the deck a late-game board-flood payoff that doesn't compete with the poison gameplan — it just ends the game if the poison plan stalls.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Wurmquake actually lives — the singleton format's slower clock and multiplayer politics give you time to reach twelve mana, and the token army it produces is scaled for tables, not one opponent. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically castable but never correct; twelve-mana spells don't get played in formats where the game ends on turn one or two. Oathbreaker allows it, and a big-mana or free-cast shell there could theoretically weaponize it, but the card's natural home is hundred-card battlecruiser Commander where someone always has a Selvala or a Vorinclex on the table.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.38 bulk tier
At $0.38, Wurmquake is deep bulk — you're not paying a premium for access here. Bulk rares at this price point rarely climb unless a pushed commander shoves inclusion rates up dramatically, so treat it as a cheap pickup for the decks that want it, not a spec.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.