Zurgo Helmsmasher
Legendary Creature — Orc Warrior
Haste
Zurgo attacks each combat if able.
During your turn, Zurgo has indestructible.
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Zurgo this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Zurgo.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BRW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Khans of Tarkir Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #10243
Zurgo Helmsmasher hits for 7 indestructible damage the turn it lands and laughs at every sweeper your opponents fire back. The cost is a commander that does nothing on defense and becomes a liability the moment anyone else passes priority.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Zurgo Helmsmasher is the deck in Commander — 7 power with indestructibility on your own turns means Voltron kills come as early as turn 4 with a single equip, and board wipes like Wrath of God become one-sided when you're the one casting them. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Vintage, Zurgo Helmsmasher is a novelty at best: five mana for a creature with no immediate protection on opponents' turns is too slow when the format ends games on turn 1 or 2. Modern and Pioneer are marginally more hospitable but still unfriendly — aggressive strategies there want redundancy and resilience at lower mana costs, and a single Path to Exile on your turn undoes everything. Commander is where Zurgo Helmsmasher actually functions as designed, and within that format it rewards leaning hard into equipment, haste enablers, and mass removal that leaves it standing.
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Price Context
Current price
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.