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
- Dragons of Tarkir (DTK #169)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 1
- Released
- 2015-03-27
- Artist
- Jason Rainville
- EDHREC rank
- #15,576
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- 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
- Stormrider Rig
- Loyal Apprentice
- Grafted Wargear
- Tome of Legends
- Chain Lightning
- Burst Lightning
- Warbringer
- Goblin Tunneler
- Break Through the Line
- Pathmaker Initiate
- Skullcrack
- Fireblast
- Monastery Swiftspear
- Symmetry Matrix
- Bonecrusher Giant
- Searing Blaze
- Ghostfire Slice
- Spider-Punk
- Lightning Strike
- Blood Mist
- Incinerate
- Ramunap Ruins
- Lava Spike
- Searing Spear
- Rift Bolt
- Sword of the Chosen
- Tersa Lightshatter
- Flame Slash
- Skewer the Critics
- Searing Blood
- Wild Slash
- Cathedral of War
- Hazoret's Monument
- Light Up the Stage
- Skyfire Phoenix
- Play with Fire
- Goblin Guide
- Mishra's Factory
- Feldon, Ronom Excavator
- Seal of Fire
- Titan's Strength
- Fury
- Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
- Barbarian Ring
- Grim Lavamancer
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
- Ronin Warclub
- Loyal Apprentice
- Hazoret's Monument
- Tenza, Godo's Maul
- Faithless Looting
- Blasphemous Act
- Tome of Legends
- Stormrider Rig
- Grafted Wargear
- Light Up the Stage
- Chain Lightning
- Chaos Warp
- Thrill of Possibility
- Burst Lightning
- Rogue's Passage
- Arcane Signet
- Goblin Tunneler
- Lightning Strike
- Ruby Medallion
- Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
- Warbringer
- Ghostfire Slice
- Break Through the Line
- Spider-Punk
- Hexing Squelcher
- Sulfuric Vortex
- Runaway Steam-Kin
- Pathmaker Initiate
- Skullcrack
- Temur Battle Rage
- Unleash Fury
- Bonecrusher Giant
- Fireblast
- Demand Answers
- Monastery Swiftspear
- Impact Tremors
- Ramunap Ruins
- Symmetry Matrix
- Titan's Strength
- Searing Blaze
- Sundering Eruption
- Laelia, the Blade Reforged
- Fire Diamond
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.