Massacre Wurm card art

Massacre Wurm

Creature — Phyrexian Wurm MV 6

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Combos with Massacre Wurm

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Natural Affinity Infinite
    • Near-infinite lifeloss
    • Destroy all lands opponents control
    • Mass Land Denial
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Argothian Elder Wirewood Lodge Forbidden Orchard Infinite
    • Each opponent loses the game
    • Infinite creature tokens for opponents
    • Infinite death triggers for opponents
    • Infinite creature ETB for opponents
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature LTB for opponents
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2020-06-23

    Massacre Wurm's triggered ability triggers if a creature an opponent controls dies for any reason, including from its first ability reducing its toughness to 0, as long as Massacre Wurm remains on the battlefield.

  • 2020-06-23

    Massacre Wurm's first ability affects only creatures your opponents control at the time it resolves. Creatures they begin to control later in the turn won't get -2/-2.

  • 2020-06-23

    If your life total is brought to 0 or less at the same time that a creature an opponent controls is dealt lethal damage, you lose the game before Massacre Wurm's last ability goes on the stack.

  • 2020-06-23

    If a creature an opponent controls dies at the same time as Massacre Wurm, Massacre Wurm's last ability triggers for that creature.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Massacre Wurm, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 6
Games played 2
Win rate Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Black 3 decks
  • Rakdos 1 deck
  • Orzhov 1 deck

Every version of Massacre Wurm

11 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Massacre Wurm — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.