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Zurgo Bellstriker

Legendary Creature — Orc WarriorRed mana

A 2/2 for a single red mana always comes with a tax, and here the price is precise: this can't block anything with power 2 or greater. The restriction is built to be invisible on the turns that matter. A one-drop beater lives on offense in the early game, swinging into open boards rather than holding the fort, so the can't-block clause costs you nothing while you're the aggressor and only bites once you've fallen behind, which is exactly when red aggro is supposed to be closing rather than defending. Dash extends that logic: late in a game, when an idle 2/2 would sit uselessly, you can spend an extra mana to attack for two with haste and bounce the body back to hand at end step. That isn't evasion; it's a way to keep the card doing damage on turns when a summoning-sick creature couldn't, while also ducking sorcery-speed removal and sweepers that resolve on the opponent's turn (the creature is simply gone before they can catch it). The legendary supertype trims nothing from your deckbuilding; it only stops you fielding two copies at once, a soft cap that rarely matters when the plan is to attack and dash rather than build a board. Every line points the same direction: a clean statline, a drawback that only applies on defense, and a cast mode that turns a spent body back into repeatable pressure.

Zurgo Bellstriker (dtk)
DTK · #169rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.80
Oracle Text

Rules text

Zurgo can't block creatures with power 2 or greater. Dash 1 generic manaRed mana (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.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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