Elderscale Wurm
- Mana cost
- {4}{G}{G}{G}
- Type
- Creature — Wurm
- Power / toughness
- 7 / 7
- Set
- Magic 2013 #167 (mythic)
- Price
- $2.99 USD
Trample
When this creature enters, if your life total is less than 7, your life total becomes 7.
As long as you have 7 or more life, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 7 reduces it to 7 instead.
Elderscale Wurm has 1 printing, first in Magic 2013 (2012). EDHREC ranks it #12,663 among Commander cards. It appears most in Baru, Wurmspeaker decks (3,830 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Elderscale Wurm most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Baru, Wurmspeaker: 3,830 decks
Often played with Elderscale Wurm
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Elderscale Wurm’s last ability doesn’t prevent damage. It only changes the result of damage dealt to you. For example, a creature will lifelink that deals damage to you will still cause its controller to gain life, even if that damage would reduce your life total to less than 7.
- : If damage is dealt to you and Elderscale Wurm at the same time, and that damage is enough to destroy Elderscale Wurm and reduce your life total to 7 or less, Elderscale Wurm’s ability will still apply. For example, if you have 10 life and a spell deals 10 damage to you and 10 damage to Elderscale Wurm, you’ll end up at 7 life and Elderscale Wurm will be destroyed.
- : If you have less than 7 life, damage dealt to you reduces your life total as normal.
- : Elderscale Wurm’s last ability doesn’t affect the loss or payment of life.
- : In a Commander game, combat damage you’re dealt by a commander is still tracked, even if it doesn’t change your life total.