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Autochthon Wurm

Creature — Wurm10 generic manaGreen manaGreen manaGreen manaWhite manaWhite mana

Fifteen is a number the game almost never asks you to reach, and that absurd cost is the entire point of the design. Convoke is what reconciles a 9/14 trampler with a price tag nobody pays in mana: every creature on the board becomes a fraction of the cost, so a wide green-white board that has stalled out can tap down and slam this in a single turn. The whole design inverts the usual relationship between creature count and casting cost. Most fatties want you to ramp into them; this one wants you to have already won the board-presence war, then cash that lead in for a body big enough to end things. Trample is the closing punctuation, carrying overflow past a chump blocker straight to the player so a wall of small attackers converts into lethal damage all at once. The 14 toughness is the quietly relevant number, sitting above nearly every burn spell and most combat math, so an entire turn's worth of taps will not simply trade down to a damage-based answer. It still folds to a single targeted kill spell or exile effect, of course; the protection here is against the red deck and the chump block, not the clean removal spell that ignores the body's size entirely.

Autochthon Wurm (rav)
RAV · #191rare
Pricing
Normal: $2.94
Foil: $10.15
Oracle Text

Rules text

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 1 generic mana or one mana of that creature's color.) Trample
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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