Worms of the Earth
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The DarkDRK · #56
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 5.83 € · 6.74 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Players can't play lands. Lands can't enter the battlefield. At the beginning of each upkeep, any player may sacrifice two lands of their choice or have this enchantment deal 5 damage to that player. If a player does either, destroy this enchantment.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- OldschoolLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Anson Maddocks
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1994-08-01
Flavour text
The ground collapsed, leaving nothing but the great Worms' mucous residues.
Rulings
If you cast a spell or activate an ability that lets you put a land onto the battlefield, the effect fails. You'll still do everything else the spell or ability tells you to do, such as shuffle the library.
Land can't enter, so an effect that "puts a land onto the battlefield" won't do anything, and the land will stay where it is.
In Two-Headed Giant, triggers only once per upkeep, not once for each player.
If a permanent spell tries to enter as a land during its resolution (for instance, a Clone entering the battlefield as a copy of a Dryad Arbor or an animated Mutavault), it is put into its owner's graveyard instead of entering. It never enters, so abilities that would have triggered on it entering won't trigger.