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Bookwurm

Creature — Wurm7 generic manaGreen mana

A 7/7 trampler that gains 3 life and refills your hand as it lands makes a perfectly fine top-end body, but that entry trigger is a courtesy, not the point. The graveyard activation is what justifies the name. For 2 generic manaGreen mana it tucks itself back into your library third from the top, no shuffle involved, so it reliably returns to your hand a few draw steps later. This is recursion built around inevitability rather than raw power, and it answers the chronic weakness of big green threats: normally they are one-and-done cards that trade cleanly against a single removal spell. Here every kill spell your opponent spends buys only a temporary reprieve, and every recast reloads your grip and your life total again. The cost is tempo and exposure. Eight mana to cast, three more to arm the return, and the whole plan runs through the graveyard, which leaves the card fully in range of exile effects during the window between death and its next appearance. It wants a slow, grinding game where card advantage compounds and no one can afford to answer the same body over and over, but only when you can keep the graveyard intact long enough to fire the ability. The studious name nods at the draw trigger; the real machinery is that library-placement clause, a green take on recursion that returns a threat to a known, fixed slot rather than gambling on a reshuffle.

Bookwurm (stx)
STX · #123uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.23
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample When this creature enters, you gain 3 life and draw a card. 2 generic manaGreen mana: Put this card from your graveyard into your library third from the top.
Legalities

Format Status

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