Engulfing Slagwurm

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Name	Engulfing Slagwurm
Type	Creature — wurm
Description	Whenever Engulfing Slagwurm blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.
Flavor	Its teeth exist only for decoration.
Artist	Jaime Jones
Set	Jumpstart 2022 #655
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Engulfing Slagwurm

Engulfing Slagwurm, Creature — wurm, designed by Jaime Jones first released in Oct, 2010 in the set Scars of Mirrodin and was printed exactly in 2 different ways. It see play in 2 formats: Commander and Casual. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of $ 0.23.

A deck focused on controlling the board and gaining life would benefit from including Engulfing Slagwurm, especially in a green-heavy deck. While Engulfing Slagwurm's ability to destroy creatures and gain life can be powerful in certain situations, there are better options available such as Terastodon or Avenger of Zendikar which offer more versatile and impactful abilities. Engulfing Slagwurm could see play in a casual or themed deck, but in competitive settings, there are more efficient cards to consider.

Top 8 decks with Engulfing Slagwurm

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Rules

01/01/11

Engulfing Slagwurm’s ability triggers and resolves during the declare blockers step. Creatures destroyed this way will not deal combat damage.

01/01/11

Even if the ability of an attacking Engulfing Slagwurm destroys each creature blocking it, Engulfing Slagwurm won’t deal combat damage to the player or planeswalker it’s attacking unless it somehow gains trample.

01/01/11

If Engulfing Slagwurm’s ability resolves and the other creature is not destroyed (perhaps because it has already left the battlefield or it regenerates), you’ll still gain life equal to that creature’s toughness.

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