---
target_card: Barbed-Back Wurm
mana_cost: "{4}{B}"
type_line: "Creature — Wurm"
algorithm: "4096-dimensional Qwen 8B Cosine Similarity over 38,000 Oracle embeddings"
canonical_url: https://avascry.com/similar/barbed-back-wurm
json_api: https://avascry.com/similar/barbed-back-wurm.json
---

# Cards Similar & Synergistic to Barbed-Back Wurm

- **Target Card:** [Barbed-Back Wurm](https://avascry.com/printing/barbed-back-wurm-mir) (Creature — Wurm) `{4}{B}`
- **Algorithm:** 4096-dimensional Qwen 8B Cosine Similarity over 38,000 Oracle embeddings
- **JSON API:** https://avascry.com/similar/barbed-back-wurm.json

## Top 31 Synergistic Matches

1. [**Jungle Wurm**](https://avascry.com/printing/jungle-wurm-mir) `{3}{G}{G}` — *Creature — Wurm*
2. [**Rabid Rats**](https://avascry.com/printing/rabid-rats-sth) `{1}{B}` — *Creature — Rat*
3. [**Johtull Wurm**](https://avascry.com/printing/johtull-wurm-ice) `{5}{G}` — *Creature — Wurm*
4. [**Wring Flesh**](https://avascry.com/printing/wring-flesh-m12) `{B}` — *Instant*
5. [**Quagmire Lamprey**](https://avascry.com/printing/quagmire-lamprey-mmq) `{2}{B}` — *Creature — Fish*
6. [**Plague Wight**](https://avascry.com/printing/plague-wight-rna) `{1}{B}` — *Creature — Zombie*
7. [**Strangling Spores**](https://avascry.com/printing/strangling-spores-m19) `{3}{B}` — *Instant*
8. [**Stab**](https://avascry.com/printing/stab-fdn) `{B}` — *Instant*
9. [**Loathsome Catoblepas**](https://avascry.com/printing/loathsome-catoblepas-ths) `{5}{B}` — *Creature — Beast*
10. [**Scorpion's Sting**](https://avascry.com/printing/scorpions-sting-spm) `{1}{B}` — *Instant*
11. [**Segmented Wurm**](https://avascry.com/printing/segmented-wurm-tmp) `{3}{R}{G}` — *Creature — Wurm*
12. [**Battering Wurm**](https://avascry.com/printing/battering-wurm-gpt) `{6}{G}` — *Creature — Wurm*
13. [**Disfigure**](https://avascry.com/printing/disfigure-ddr) `{B}` — *Instant*
14. [**Lesser Werewolf**](https://avascry.com/printing/lesser-werewolf-leg) `{3}{B}` — *Creature — Werewolf*
15. [**Tar Snare**](https://avascry.com/printing/tar-snare-ogw) `{2}{B}` — *Instant*
16. [**Davriel's Withering**](https://avascry.com/printing/davriels-withering-j21) `{B}` — *Instant*
17. [**Smokespew Invoker**](https://avascry.com/printing/smokespew-invoker-lgn) `{2}{B}` — *Creature — Zombie Mutant*
18. [**Massacre Wurm**](https://avascry.com/printing/massacre-wurm-pm21) `{3}{B}{B}{B}` — *Creature — Phyrexian Wurm*
19. [**Witherscale Wurm**](https://avascry.com/printing/witherscale-wurm-shm) `{4}{G}{G}` — *Creature — Wurm*
20. [**Glistening Deluge**](https://avascry.com/printing/glistening-deluge-mom) `{1}{B}{B}` — *Sorcery*
21. [**Zombie Boa**](https://avascry.com/printing/zombie-boa-apc) `{4}{B}` — *Creature — Zombie Snake*
22. [**Stinging Scorpion**](https://avascry.com/printing/stinging-scorpion-und) `{4}{B}` — *Host Creature — Scorpion*
23. [**Make Obsolete**](https://avascry.com/printing/make-obsolete-klr) `{2}{B}` — *Instant*
24. [**Thrashing Wumpus**](https://avascry.com/printing/thrashing-wumpus-mmq) `{3}{B}{B}` — *Creature — Beast*
25. [**Behind the Scenes**](https://avascry.com/printing/behind-the-scenes-tdc) `{2}{B}` — *Enchantment*
26. [**Plagued Rusalka**](https://avascry.com/printing/plagued-rusalka-cns) `{B}` — *Creature — Spirit*
27. [**Blister Beetle**](https://avascry.com/printing/blister-beetle-ala) `{1}{B}` — *Creature — Insect*
28. [**Stabbing Pain**](https://avascry.com/printing/stabbing-pain-m11) `{B}` — *Instant*
29. [**Urborg Shambler**](https://avascry.com/printing/urborg-shambler-inv) `{2}{B}{B}` — *Creature — Horror*
30. [**Consumptive Goo**](https://avascry.com/printing/consumptive-goo-scg) `{B}{B}` — *Creature — Ooze*
31. [**Skulduggery**](https://avascry.com/printing/skulduggery-otj) `{B}` — *Instant*