I know it isn't fair but I have to 5 star this card for nostalgia sake. When I first started playing magic years ago I didn't really know much about strategy and the like. I never thought that 8 mana for a vanilla 7/6 is a bad deal. I just saw the 7/6 and thought it was untouchable so I started collecting these 'behemoths'. lmao I look back now and realize just how silly this guy is. I still have fond memories of him though.
Dark_Raider
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(7 votes)
Ah....... Wurms. When are they finally getting a lord :( My number one favorite creature type back in my noob days..... because what's better to timmy than a creature type that starts at about 5 mana?
The funny thing is there's not really any cards that are strictly better than this. Most of them require more green mana. But with cards like Terastodon, I'm pretty sure it's justified.
Wizard-of-the-Toast
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
A classic wurm from when I first started playing, I wish it was playable
Test-Subject_217601
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Poor Scaled Wurm, time has not treated you well buddy. Sadly, despite having several better cards, I always toss this guy into every green deck I make, partially for nostalgia and partially because a 7/6 vanilla creature with a completely unsupported creature type is still awesome in my books, I mean look at him, he just wants to be loved. Can't you give a card from way back in Ice Age a break?
dberry02
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
At least the artwork makes this look cool!
M@tttyZ
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(6 votes)
The Ice Age version had iconic art. Which I have on a t-shirt. The generic art on this one just shows up the innate blandness of the card. Glad to see WotC printing common and uncommon green biggies (wurms no less!) with trample in the newer core sets.
Lord_of_Omnipotence
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
When i first started playing i thought this card was great. It was the biggest creature i owned and i didn't even bother looking at the mana cost.
A nostalgic card, but that's pretty much all it has going for it.
KikiJikiTiki
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
If only you'd been a slagwurm...
Hoonster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I hate when wizards print *** commons with big cost yet *** p/t. I understand that printing good commons may break many formats like limited and pauper . . But this is down right terrible except for limited. It's p/t should be at least equal to the cost.
)= flavor text, because if it was really that big, it should be more like, 20/20 lol.
Ferlord
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This was magic.
Old Fogey had a point: Although not everyone played 20 Black Lotus' and 20 Plague Rats, the game was a much more simpler game.
Spirit of the Night was one of the most impressive creatures in the game: a 6/5 with protection, haste and first strike when attacking? Man! Watch out!
Dark Ritual was, at the time, a very risky spell to play. Not only was your options to play something limited, but Mana Burn existed, so if you didn't use all 3 of the mana, you'd get hurt from it.
Demonic Tutor could tutor for... what? What was the game winners back in the day? Scaled Wurms, perhaps? I don't know: I started around 9th edition
But then, it all changed when the Urza Block came. Decent spells shrivelled. Good creatures became quaintly weak. Demonic Tutor became a huge deal! Dark Ritual could play Contamination on turn one! Oh god!
So, to conclude my point, Scaled Wurm was probably something powerful back when a big creature had to either be Wrath'ed, Terror'd, Plowshare'd, or overpowered.
Stinga
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
That card is...not great... The art on the other hand is stunning. One of my favs in all of magic. 5/5 (on the art anyway. :p)
Polycotton
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I remember picking one of these up for 10c when I first started playing magic back in 1996 or something. A terrible card I would never get out due to the massive mana cost and the fact I had like 87 cards in my deck with not enough land. Pretty sure I swapped a City of Brass I got in a starter set for a bunch of mediocre creatures as well. Good times.
metalevolence
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ferlord
Sorry man, your comment is just completely wrong. This card was never anything but bad, and there were extremely powerful things to play long before Urza's block. Necropotence is from the same set as this wurm.
Technetium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This was the biggest common creature printed at the time.
mrchuckmorris
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Back when Wurms were less like worms and more like wyrms.
Equinox523
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Presenting a comprehensive list of the best monogreen vanilla creatures per CMC, by highest power and toughness, to date (only "true" vanilla creatures, and not "virtual vanillas" like WIld Nacatl):
I find it interesting that it's been almost 20 years since Ice Age, and still there is no vanilla green creature bigger than this one. While the Ninth Edition art is not nearly as epic or evocative, it's still a fine-looking piece of art, and I wonder when we will finally see this replaced as the biggest green vanilla 8-drop.
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My number one favorite creature type back in my noob days..... because what's better to timmy than a creature type that starts at about 5 mana?
Glad to see WotC printing common and uncommon green biggies (wurms no less!) with trample in the newer core sets.
A nostalgic card, but that's pretty much all it has going for it.
I understand that printing good commons may break many formats like limited and pauper . .
But this is down right terrible except for limited. It's p/t should be at least equal to the cost.
Sure.
Necropotence.
Old Fogey had a point: Although not everyone played 20 Black Lotus' and 20 Plague Rats, the game was a much more simpler game.
Spirit of the Night was one of the most impressive creatures in the game: a 6/5 with protection, haste and first strike when attacking? Man! Watch out!
Dark Ritual was, at the time, a very risky spell to play. Not only was your options to play something limited, but Mana Burn existed, so if you didn't use all 3 of the
Demonic Tutor could tutor for... what? What was the game winners back in the day? Scaled Wurms, perhaps? I don't know: I started around 9th edition
But then, it all changed when the Urza Block came. Decent spells shrivelled. Good creatures became quaintly weak. Demonic Tutor became a huge deal! Dark Ritual could play Contamination on turn one! Oh god!
So, to conclude my point, Scaled Wurm was probably something powerful back when a big creature had to either be Wrath'ed, Terror'd, Plowshare'd, or overpowered.
The art on the other hand is stunning. One of my favs in all of magic. 5/5 (on the art anyway. :p)
Pretty sure I swapped a City of Brass I got in a starter set for a bunch of mediocre creatures as well. Good times.
Sorry man, your comment is just completely wrong. This card was never anything but bad, and there were extremely powerful things to play long before Urza's block. Necropotence is from the same set as this wurm.
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I find it interesting that it's been almost 20 years since Ice Age, and still there is no vanilla green creature bigger than this one. While the Ninth Edition art is not nearly as epic or evocative, it's still a fine-looking piece of art, and I wonder when we will finally see this replaced as the biggest green vanilla 8-drop.