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That's the main reason for most of the designs

At the very best, youre getting an 8/8 with trample for 5 mana, another wurm from your hand with your newfound pseudo-Phyrexian mana, and a +1/+1 counter across the board, plus another wurm off of Baru, Wurmspeaker if you can swing it

Well, yes and no -- Dig is still the most mana efficient way of doing this effect, but you have to be willing to exile a bunch of cards in order to do so

Then in 2017 one more ruling was added to address replacement effects: "Replacement effects that modify creatures of a certain type as they enter the battlefield will apply (or not apply) after you apply this effect