I love this guy's janky Firststrike, Deathtouch, Lifelink ability.
What happens when he's blocked by more than one creature?
NecroticNobody
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Catmurderer, I think the ability triggers for each creature. I'm just not sure if I'm right though.
Wraique
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
"Whenever it becomes blocked" triggers for each creature that blocks it. Echo Circlets and lure effects for all!
Chrome_Coyote
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I know it's not in the same block, but I like Pelakka Wurm better. Still, this wurm is awesome, wurms just keep getting cooler and cooler.
Doom_Lich
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(31 votes)
It has firstest strike, deathtouch, and overkillproof lifelink.
:D
Danveldo
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
I heart this wurm. I'll hug it, and love it, and call it george, and equip it with Echo Circlet and EAT SOME FACE !
A new best friend for my casual Wurm deck.
JaxsonBateman
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Whenever you talk about a big green bomb, this is that big green bomb.
The only problem is the lack of trample. Attacking into 0/1's could prove to be unprofitable (though if you're actually concerned about the counterattack the blocking is very profitable ^^).
Theostratus
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(8 votes)
Looks like a toothy turd.
Lord_Gravesmythe
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
If he's blocked by more than one creature, more than one creature goes to the graveyard. Simple. The thing I find quite interesting is that it only has GG in the casting cost meaning that it will find its way into decks that aren't necessarily primarily green.
JenBroness
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
It's good to run Wurms nowadays. Of the top 10 highest-rated Wurms, 5 are Standard-legal right now!
JWMidnight
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
OM NOM NOM NOM was never more appropriate.
Philip-BANG
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Wizards commited to making good wurms after Pelekka. Just compare this and that other new green one that gives intimidate to everything organic within a thousand miles to the old, fat, slow and rather useless snails that once were what wurms had to offer.
Beastlygreen
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is a great fatty for any deck that can use it. I've found that it's a very funn card to use in a mana ramp. Turns 1, 2 and 3 mana acceleration. Turn 4 slagwurm. Along with wurmcoil engine, this can pit away a game, FAST!!!! Who would want to go up against it?
OpeeFomenom
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I've got something I want to confirm. If it were to block or be blocked by something with Indestructible, the creature would obviously not be destroyed but you would still gain life equal to its toughness right? Because the requirement for the life gain is the ability activating not the creature dying. Or am I wrong?
This ability has almost always been exclusively green's ability, sometimes bleeding over into black.
Sironos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(8 votes)
Why does the colour with the most mana ramp need to have the most overpowered creatures? Damn I hate monogreen, my arch nemesis.
TDL
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
This ability doesn't belong in green at all. Is R&D out of ideas, or what? @LTJZamboni: Please notice the all-important "At end of combat" clause on Thicket Basilisk. This out-of-color wacko destroys things as soon as they so much as look at it.
Seasnan
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
i was excited to hsve this guy as my first rare of this pack
This is a great card, and bellowing tanglewurm is his little brother! Attack without worry of chumpers, and block only when you need the life, or to block the fatties.
Gezus82
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
give him trample, then he's basically unblockable, except u can still use a lure ability to wipe ur opponents board and gain a ton of life.
altf4ninja
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(8 votes)
green's solution to infect i see
Vinifera7
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Engulfing Slagwurm is quite unreal as it can't be taken out in combat; it just swallows up whatever's in its path. This guy will be a ma.ssive limited bomb, as the only way to deal with it is to draw the right piece of removal.
It's close, but I think this might even be better than Pelakka Wurm.
Zulp
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(18 votes)
Even Emrakul is scared to block him.
RareCardHunter
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Combo this with Lure. You can gain a LOT of Life when you use this combo. Even better, also combo this with Infiltration Lens and Spellbook.
FatLenny
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
This and Rage Nimbus are reason enough to play a red-green deck.
This thing can kill a Progenitus, if your opponent blocks with it... Lure, FTW.
Troutz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
NOM NOM NOM
arcarcherx
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Use Entangler and Lure and you will have a really good time!!!
chaoticfox
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(7 votes)
I believe that this creature still takes combat damage from opposing creatures in combat, it just destroys the creature regardless of the combat out come. unless of course it's indestructible. That's how I play it, makes it more balanced. I need an official judge to verify how it works.
tcollins
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(12 votes)
Eats creatures and *** life points.
yesnomu
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Scary Limited bomb. Here's how one game went:
Opponent: Rawr Slagwurm! Me: Oh, crap. Eat my Myr token!
I then continued to throw Myr at the beast, using Razor Hippogriff to return my Origin Spellbomb, and a Glimmerpoint Stag to flicker my Hippogriff to get the Spellbomb back, until I finally dug to my Arrest. No idea how I would have won if I hadn't been playing white.
DacenOctavio
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(2 votes)
High Ground. Why did Wizards not just give it the keywords Deathtouch, Lifelink, and First Strike? This is the single strongest argument for efficient creature removal in the game. Just as Darksteel Colossus is the single strongest argument for nondestructive removal.
Stray_Dog
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
"what happens when it becomes blocked by more than one creature?"
Pelakka wurm is evolving.....It evolved into Engulfing Slagwurm!
What an insane card though. The only con is it can be chump blocked all day. I prefer this card over most trample wurms.
Chosen_of_the_Dark_Sun
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(14 votes)
@Sironos: Because that's what Green has, powerful creatures and mana-ramp. It's like asking why Blue has the best card advantage and the best counters: because that's what Blue does. Mono-Green is by no means overpowered, and while it does have amazing creatures and ramp it has those because they're pretty much it's entire shtick. Remember, in return it loses pretty much any removal, sweepers, flying, and a whole bunch of other shiny stuff.
.Blaze.
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Use with Asceticism.
Also, anyone know what happens if this gets trample?
megakille120
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
@Blaze:
read on a wizards site that if this guy's ability kicks neither he, a creature he blocked or a creature blocking him deals combat damage that turn, so trample doesn't work as he don't deal combat damage Also, if this guys ability kicks on an indestructible creature, the creature does not die, but the wurms ability still gives you life equal to the indestructible creatures toughness
nemokara
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
@megakille120
Don't know where you read that, but it's wrong. Yes, ordinarily when he's blocked, the blocker is destroyed and he deals no combat damage. This is because he's still classified as "blocked", even though there's not a blocker anymore (in the same way, you can block with a creature that has a sacrifice effect, sacrifice it, and the attacking creature will still be "blocked"). However, the definition of trample is that you can still deal damage when blocked. More specifically, once lethal damage has been applied to blockers, any extra can be dealt to the defending player (or planeswalker). In this case there is no lethal damage required since the blocker was already destroyed.
As for the destroyed creature dealing damage, it gets destroyed during the 'declare blockers' step, so is gone before combat damage is dealt.
Kindulas
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
um... you're not paying for that ability... holy crap
Yes of course it dies to Doom Blade. Unless he plays Withstand Death. But then you play a counterspell because you're running blue/black, but then he plays a second one, but then you drop Black Sun's Zenith for 7 but then...
Yes, there are ways to kill it. There literally thousands of cards in magic and not one of them is impossible to stop. Emrakul? Visara. Ulamog? Journey to Nowhere. We could play the 'but I play this game' till the end of time, but that doesn't mean this card is any less good.
rinoh20
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
give it a sword of vengance. let it shine through its eyes.
blurrymadness
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
I love to use Tower Above on this. You destroy any creature you choose. You deal wither damage to anything that wouldn't be destroyed originally (such as darksteel colossus, and note, you still kill it :D) and if you have any damage left over, you hit the guy on the other end!
Fantastically insane. 11 damage nigh-unblockable to the face with a one card combo is just beautiful. Further, things like rancor or other cheap trample granting abilities work wonders. He's good with just about anything, but anything that gives trample makes him twice the gooder.
beerious
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.6/5.0)(4 votes)
@chaoticfox. I think you are right. Thats how I play it as well. damage is still dealt and the destruction occurs separately.
Enemy_Tricolor
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
If its teeth are only for decoration, then why does it become so terrible when Vorinclex pulls out its teeth and turns it into a Quilled Slagwurm?
_X_
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
PUT LOXODON WARHAMMER ON HIM! ATTACK! CHUMP BLOCK, EH? I GAIN LIFE EQUAL TO TOUGHNESS AND DEAL 10 LIFELINKING DAMAGE TO U! PWN FTW!
5/5
LordAzrim
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@DavenOctavio The reason they didn't give it deathtouch, lifelink, and first strike is because this ability is strictly better. For deathtouch to work, it has to deal combat damage, and the same goes for lifelink. The creature is also destroyed before first strike damage is dealt. This creature *is* green's creature removal. (Aside from the hate it gives flyers.) Despite the fact that it's vulnerable to removal, tap, or mind control, it's still a beast on the field. Anything that can block Emrakul and Kozilek at the same time and survive wins.
@megakille120 It DOES deal trample damage. When the slagwurm is blocked and the creature dies, it's still considered blocked. Just like when you block with a creature and then sacrifice it. The creature is still considered blocked, so it deals no combat damage. With trample, a creature even when considered blocked deals the excess of the combat damage to the player. Since the creature is dead, 0 damage is dealt to the creature and ALL damage is dealt to the player. Trample goes through for win.
@beerious Engulfing Slagworm's ability triggers immediately after blockers are declared. No damage is dealt either way but the blocking creature dies.
Ninjakraken
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
does the ability take effect before damage? if it does, lure on this guy wipes your opponent's board every turn!
CrowJonSnow
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
observer of the cards, you're slightly wrong on the damage it deals. if you give it trample, all of its power goes through, since lethal damage for a dead creature is 0.
this card is an absolute beast and one of the top fatties in my green deck. 7 mana is nothing, especially with Palladium Myr and Harrows. he kills everything that blocks him, or that he blocks, and you gain life. he has to be killed by spot removal or board sweeps, and with trample you're pretty much guaranteed 7+ damage. channel a Shinen of Life's Roar on him and every creaute your opponent controls dies.
dude, if you give it trample, it will deal ALL of it's damage through. :| screw lure, give him epic proportions!
NoobOfLore
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
chaoticfox, I'm not a judge, but I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. It clearly says, WHEN it blocks or becomes blocked. It happens as soon as the slagwurm is assigned to block, or something is assigned to block the slagwurm. The defending creature never gets to the deal damage step, even if it has first strike.
Anyway: Mono-green makes me angry. Not because it's overpowered, but because you need to spend hilarious amounts of money to get the fatties that make it run.
Anyway, I'll just go ahead and recite the old adage: "Dies to doomblade!!1" This isn't a bad card, but this is what creature removal is printed for, honestly.
I can't believe I'm the only one that noticed this... It's the ALASKAN BULL WURM! ...from spongebob...
and yeah I made a standard B/G wurm deck with him, massacre wurm, wurmcoil engine, and glissa, who acts like a mini version of it. It actually works very, very well. Heartless summoning and/or birthing pod with just wurmcoil and him works great, or just go with mana ramp.
jamman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
whoever made this card is stupid, someone needs to change the rules on this. Killing creatures just by assigning the blocking is stupid, it should still have to take the damadge from blocking or being blocked. otherwise this card is just way too overpowered for multiplayer casual games.
Kesth
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(4 votes)
So, will this get through Hexproof/Protection?
I think it will but I'm not really sure, I don't see the word "target" anywhere. Or is "that" considered as "target"?
kiseki
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(2 votes)
On the turn you cast an overrun, this gets through for 10 damage if it survives. This is probably worse than Terra Stomper, which will likely add 11 points of damage to your romp, and already having trample means the terra stomper can't be chump blocked. the stomper even costs less. However, there is a card even more exciting than overrun for this guy: Stampede Instant speed trample to all your forces for two less mana than overrun. You can just about guarantee that this will get chump blocked, you will gain life AND you will hit them for 8. Don't cast this until after their creature is already dead. Having two mana left over means that when they cast a doom blade on this, you have mana for Vines of Vastwood.
shotoku64
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This flavor is quirky when you think about indestructibility. Does he eat it and then spit it out later? Does it go through his stomach and come out the back? Also what happens when he meets a creature with regeneration???
Averyck
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
question: when this thing blocks something with Totem Armor, and the enchantment gets destroyed instead of the creature, A) what happens to the rest of combat and B) do you gain life?
Kaixe-Rho
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This Wurmy craps all over the following: -"Phantom" cards -Vigor -Infect -Deathtouch -First and Double Strike And many many more. Really, there shouldn't be a big ol' wurm that can go toe to toe with, say, Glissa, The Traitor. And then EAT her. First Strike and Deathtouch are supposed to kill everything...though I guess that's what Indestructible was for; not as useful in the scars block I guess. This isn't me disliking this guy, no, Wurms are my favorite creature type and this is one of my favorite creatures. I'm just wondering what was going through who's head when they decided "How about this: whenever something fights it, it dies. Before damage can even be dealt. Oh and you gain that much life." Ridiculous.
garrukscompanion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this with lure and maybe troll hide, is the garruk given answer to infect and token
Trygon_Predator
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"I'll take your creatures... and EAT them!" One of my favorite wurms (and I love wurms). Even ignoring that ability, it's still a 7/7 for - no trample, but there's plenty of ways to grant that in-color. Then add in the ability to eat Emrakul, the Aeons Torn...
MindAblaze
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Funny thing happened to me recently with this card. I'm playing with my Mayael the Anima EDH deck, and I draw this guy in my opening hand with a bunch of ramp and a Craterhoof Behemoth. I'm thinking fu€K this card sucks...well wouldn't you know I'm facing a Glissa, the Traitor dredge deck. So after a few turns of hiding behind chump blockers ala Conqueror's Pledge while Glissa smashes face equipped with Elephant Guide, Fists of Ironwood and a Mask of Avacyn, I have finally ramped enough to save my @$$. Help me Engulfing Slagwurm, you're my only hope. Top deck Hull's Breach turns into a win...when I stabilize and drop the Craterhoof. Yay underrated wurms!
I like how it doesn't say "at the end of combat" or something so say you have Primal Rage and this with Lure, all blockers would die, you would gain all of their toughness in life and you would still deal 7 to your opponent.
ereidivh
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
What was that, Lure? You want me to be incredibly cruel? Well, I think I've got just the thing.
Has dug me out of so many holes whether it be me playing stupid or bad card draw earlier in the game that put me there. My friends know this card well and always let out a "damnit" when it hits the table.
DoragonShinzui
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Eats Eldrazi.
It eats ELDRAZI. Almost all of them (Ulamog the Indigestible survives.)
Destroy2777
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
How the hell does that thing eat something twenty times its size?
Kind of hilarious against clone effects. After all, if one slagwurm blocks another, they'll both eat each other simultaneously.
Dragonshoredreamz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is such a wicked card. I love everything about it! Incredible artwork and concept. Gorgeous image. His abilities are awesome. Definitely a worthy wurm.
observerofthecards
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Just think I'll clear up the two most often misunderstood facets of this card.
First, the timing of the effect:
chaoticfox and beerious: You are wrong. The effect takes place before combat damage is assigned. Check it:
510. Combat Damage Step
510.1c A blocked creature assigns its combat damage to the creatures blocking it. If no creatures are currently blocking it (if, for example, they were destroyed or removed from combat), it assigns no combat damage.
510.1d A blocking creature assigns combat damage to the creatures it’s blocking. If it isn’t currently blocking any creatures (if, for example, they were destroyed or removed from combat), it assigns no combat damage
Second, how his combat damage is assigned:
I have noticed some people seem to think that he destroys the creature he is blocking, and then his damage goes through. This is untrue. Unless you give him trample, the order goes like this: 1. Engulfing Slagwurm is blocked 2. Blocking creature(s) are destroyed due to Engulfing Slagwurm's effect. You gain life equal to destroyed creature(s) toughness. 3. Combat damage is assigned. The blocking creature has been destroyed, so it can't take any damage, and the Slagwurm doesn't take damage from the blocking creature, as it is now destroyed. The damage does not go through to the player unless the Slagwurm has been given trample somehow, and the blocking creature had toughness less than Engulfing Slagwurm's current power.
creepycrawler
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Just waiting for the wurm that has "If ________ Wurm attacks and is unblocked, it eats defending player. EATS THEM."
If serious though, could be "If ______ Wurm attacks and is unblocked, destroy defending player. Put X +1/+1 counters on _____ Wurm, where X is that player's life total."
WHAT?!?!?! its totally op and unfair unless i get 4. plus, you get the life even if the creature wasnt destroyed.
myztikrice
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@observerofthecards If this is given Trample it doesn't matter what the toughness of the blocking creature was, since it's no longer there all of Slagwurm's power goes through.
Belgarath123
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Kesth Yes, this guy will get through hexproof and shroud. If there is no word "target" on the card, then there is no target!
Swag_Crow
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
@LordAzrim It's ability is actually worse than Deathtouch in some cases because this can't destroy indestructible creatures while Deathtouch can. Trust me, I'm a pro.
-Swag_Crow
ningyo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love to pair this card with Gift of Immortality. Block/Attack huge, powerful creatures, they die, Engulfing Slagwurm is brought back to the battlefield to wreak havoc next turn. Infinitely gaining life.
Comments (95)
What happens when he's blocked by more than one creature?
:D
A new best friend for my casual Wurm deck.
The only problem is the lack of trample. Attacking into 0/1's could prove to be unprofitable (though if you're actually concerned about the counterattack the blocking is very profitable ^^).
Thicket Basilisk
This ability has almost always been exclusively green's ability, sometimes bleeding over into black.
@LTJZamboni:
Please notice the all-important "At end of combat" clause on Thicket Basilisk. This out-of-color wacko destroys things as soon as they so much as look at it.
It's close, but I think this might even be better than Pelakka Wurm.
Opponent: Rawr Slagwurm!
Me: Oh, crap. Eat my Myr token!
I then continued to throw Myr at the beast, using Razor Hippogriff to return my Origin Spellbomb, and a Glimmerpoint Stag to flicker my Hippogriff to get the Spellbomb back, until I finally dug to my Arrest. No idea how I would have won if I hadn't been playing white.
Exactly ^_^
What an insane card though. The only con is it can be chump blocked all day. I prefer this card over most trample wurms.
Also, anyone know what happens if this gets trample?
read on a wizards site that if this guy's ability kicks neither he, a creature he blocked or a creature blocking him deals combat damage that turn, so trample doesn't work as he don't deal combat damage
Also, if this guys ability kicks on an indestructible creature, the creature does not die, but the wurms ability still gives you life equal to the indestructible creatures toughness
Don't know where you read that, but it's wrong. Yes, ordinarily when he's blocked, the blocker is destroyed and he deals no combat damage. This is because he's still classified as "blocked", even though there's not a blocker anymore (in the same way, you can block with a creature that has a sacrifice effect, sacrifice it, and the attacking creature will still be "blocked"). However, the definition of trample is that you can still deal damage when blocked. More specifically, once lethal damage has been applied to blockers, any extra can be dealt to the defending player (or planeswalker). In this case there is no lethal damage required since the blocker was already destroyed.
As for the destroyed creature dealing damage, it gets destroyed during the 'declare blockers' step, so is gone before combat damage is dealt.
Edit: Only if Progenitus blocks it.
Flavour text is pretty win, too.
Yes of course it dies to Doom Blade. Unless he plays Withstand Death. But then you play a counterspell because you're running blue/black, but then he plays a second one, but then you drop Black Sun's Zenith for 7 but then...
Yes, there are ways to kill it. There literally thousands of cards in magic and not one of them is impossible to stop. Emrakul? Visara. Ulamog? Journey to Nowhere. We could play the 'but I play this game' till the end of time, but that doesn't mean this card is any less good.
Fantastically insane. 11 damage nigh-unblockable to the face with a one card combo is just beautiful. Further, things like rancor or other cheap trample granting abilities work wonders. He's good with just about anything, but anything that gives trample makes him twice the gooder.
5/5
@megakille120 It DOES deal trample damage. When the slagwurm is blocked and the creature dies, it's still considered blocked. Just like when you block with a creature and then sacrifice it. The creature is still considered blocked, so it deals no combat damage. With trample, a creature even when considered blocked deals the excess of the combat damage to the player. Since the creature is dead, 0 damage is dealt to the creature and ALL damage is dealt to the player. Trample goes through for win.
@beerious Engulfing Slagworm's ability triggers immediately after blockers are declared. No damage is dealt either way but the blocking creature dies.
if you give it trample, all of its power goes through, since lethal damage for a dead creature is 0.
this card is an absolute beast and one of the top fatties in my green deck. 7 mana is nothing, especially with Palladium Myr and Harrows. he kills everything that blocks him, or that he blocks, and you gain life. he has to be killed by spot removal or board sweeps, and with trample you're pretty much guaranteed 7+ damage.
channel a Shinen of Life's Roar on him and every creaute your opponent controls dies.
ROAR
"Hey guise, come get a hug!"
It clearly says, WHEN it blocks or becomes blocked.
It happens as soon as the slagwurm is assigned to block, or something is assigned to block the slagwurm. The defending creature never gets to the deal damage step, even if it has first strike.
Anyway: Mono-green makes me angry.
Not because it's overpowered, but because you need to spend hilarious amounts of money to get the fatties that make it run.
Anyway, I'll just go ahead and recite the old adage: "Dies to doomblade!!1"
This isn't a bad card, but this is what creature removal is printed for, honestly.
and yeah I made a standard B/G wurm deck with him, massacre wurm, wurmcoil engine, and glissa, who acts like a mini version of it. It actually works very, very well. Heartless summoning and/or birthing pod with just wurmcoil and him works great, or just go with mana ramp.
I think it will but I'm not really sure, I don't see the word "target" anywhere. Or is "that" considered as "target"?
However, there is a card even more exciting than overrun for this guy: Stampede
Instant speed trample to all your forces for two less mana than overrun. You can just about guarantee that this will get chump blocked, you will gain life AND you will hit them for 8. Don't cast this until after their creature is already dead. Having two mana left over means that when they cast a doom blade on this, you have mana for Vines of Vastwood.
Does he eat it and then spit it out later?
Does it go through his stomach and come out the back?
Also what happens when he meets a creature with regeneration???
-"Phantom" cards
-Vigor
-Infect
-Deathtouch
-First and Double Strike
And many many more.
Really, there shouldn't be a big ol' wurm that can go toe to toe with, say, Glissa, The Traitor. And then EAT her. First Strike and Deathtouch are supposed to kill everything...though I guess that's what Indestructible was for; not as useful in the scars block I guess.
This isn't me disliking this guy, no, Wurms are my favorite creature type and this is one of my favorite creatures.
I'm just wondering what was going through who's head when they decided "How about this: whenever something fights it, it dies. Before damage can even be dealt. Oh and you gain that much life."
Ridiculous.
One of my favorite wurms (and I love wurms). Even ignoring that ability, it's still a 7/7 for
I'm playing with my Mayael the Anima EDH deck, and I draw this guy in my opening hand with a bunch of ramp and a Craterhoof Behemoth. I'm thinking fu€K this card sucks...well wouldn't you know I'm facing a Glissa, the Traitor dredge deck. So after a few turns of hiding behind chump blockers ala Conqueror's Pledge while Glissa smashes face equipped with Elephant Guide, Fists of Ironwood and a Mask of Avacyn, I have finally ramped enough to save my @$$. Help me Engulfing Slagwurm, you're my only hope. Top deck Hull's Breach turns into a win...when I stabilize and drop the Craterhoof. Yay underrated wurms!
It eats ELDRAZI. Almost all of them (Ulamog the Indigestible survives.)
(Boy am I gonna get flamed on for that...)
Incredible artwork and concept. Gorgeous image.
His abilities are awesome. Definitely a worthy wurm.
First, the timing of the effect:
chaoticfox and beerious: You are wrong. The effect takes place before combat damage is assigned. Check it:
510. Combat Damage Step
510.1c A blocked creature assigns its combat damage to the creatures blocking it. If no creatures are currently blocking it (if, for example, they were destroyed or removed from combat), it assigns no combat damage.
510.1d A blocking creature assigns combat damage to the creatures it’s blocking. If it isn’t currently blocking any creatures (if, for example, they were destroyed or removed from combat), it assigns no combat damage
Second, how his combat damage is assigned:
I have noticed some people seem to think that he destroys the creature he is blocking, and then his damage goes through. This is untrue. Unless you give him trample, the order goes like this:
1. Engulfing Slagwurm is blocked
2. Blocking creature(s) are destroyed due to Engulfing Slagwurm's effect. You gain life equal to destroyed creature(s) toughness.
3. Combat damage is assigned. The blocking creature has been destroyed, so it can't take any damage, and the Slagwurm doesn't take damage from the blocking creature, as it is now destroyed. The damage does not go through to the player unless the Slagwurm has been given trample somehow, and the blocking creature had toughness less than Engulfing Slagwurm's current power.
If serious though, could be "If ______ Wurm attacks and is unblocked, destroy defending player. Put X +1/+1 counters on _____ Wurm, where X is that player's life total."
Yes, this guy will get through hexproof and shroud. If there is no word "target" on the card, then there is no target!
-Swag_Crow