Zurgo Bellstriker
Legendary Creature — Orc Warrior
Zurgo can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.
Dash 
(You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)
2 / 2
- Set
- Pioneer Masters (PIO #161)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 1
- Released
- 2024-12-10
- Artist
- Jason Rainville
- EDHREC rank
- #15,934
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Obsidian Battle-Axe
- Sai of the Shinobi
- Hero's Blade
- Ronin Warclub
- Tenza, Godo's Maul
- Loyal Apprentice
- Stormrider Rig
- Chain Lightning
- Grafted Wargear
- Tome of Legends
- Burst Lightning
- Warbringer
- Break Through the Line
- Goblin Tunneler
- Skullcrack
- Monastery Swiftspear
- Fireblast
- Lightning Strike
- Ghostfire Slice
- Pathmaker Initiate
- Ramunap Ruins
- Bonecrusher Giant
- Searing Spear
- Incinerate
- Searing Blaze
- Symmetry Matrix
- Spider-Punk
- Flame Slash
- Lava Spike
- Wild Slash
- Seal of Fire
- Play with Fire
- Feldon, Ronom Excavator
- Skewer the Critics
- Searing Blood
- Rift Bolt
- Mishra's Factory
- Blood Mist
- Fury
- Barbarian Ring
- Sword of the Chosen
- Light Up the Stage
- Goblin Guide
- Skyfire Phoenix
- Detective's Phoenix
- Hazoret's Monument
- Tersa Lightshatter
- Temur Battle Rage
- Titan's Strength
- Screaming Nemesis
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Mountain
- Lightning Bolt
- Sol Ring
- Hero's Blade
- Abrade
- Obsidian Battle-Axe
- Sai of the Shinobi
- Loyal Apprentice
- Ronin Warclub
- Hazoret's Monument
- Tenza, Godo's Maul
- Blasphemous Act
- Faithless Looting
- Tome of Legends
- Chain Lightning
- Stormrider Rig
- Light Up the Stage
- Burst Lightning
- Grafted Wargear
- Hexing Squelcher
- Thrill of Possibility
- Lightning Strike
- Chaos Warp
- Rogue's Passage
- Arcane Signet
- Ghostfire Slice
- Break Through the Line
- Ruby Medallion
- Spider-Punk
- Goblin Tunneler
- Runaway Steam-Kin
- Skullcrack
- Ramunap Ruins
- Warbringer
- Monastery Swiftspear
- Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
- Unleash Fury
- Temur Battle Rage
- Fireblast
- Sulfuric Vortex
- Flame Slash
- Bonecrusher Giant
- Impact Tremors
- Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- Searing Spear
- Demand Answers
- Incinerate
- Pathmaker Initiate
- Barbarian Ring
- Laelia, the Blade Reforged
Format legality
Rulings
- 2015-02-25
Even though both cards portray the same character, Zurgo Bellstriker and Zurgo Helmsmasher have different names. Controlling both of them won't invoke the "legend rule."
- 2015-02-25
If a creature enters the battlefield as a copy of or becomes a copy of a creature whose dash cost was paid, the copy won't have haste and won't be returned to its owner's hand.
- 2015-02-25
If you choose to pay the dash cost rather than the mana cost, you're still casting the spell. It goes on the stack and can be responded to and countered. You can cast a creature spell for its dash cost only when you otherwise could cast that creature spell. Most of the time, this means during your main phase when the stack is empty.
- 2015-02-25
If you pay the dash cost to cast a creature spell, that card will be returned to its owner's hand only if it's still on the battlefield when its triggered ability resolves. If it dies or goes to another zone before then, it will stay where it is.
- 2015-02-25
Once Zurgo Bellstriker has legally blocked a creature, raising that creature's power to 2 or greater won't undo the block.
- 2015-02-25
You don't have to attack with the creature with dash unless another ability says you do.