Zurgo, Helmsmasher // Unplayable Deck #2 by user5990646

Format: Commander

Commander: Zurgo Helmsmasher

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Mardu deck uses Zurgo Helmsmasher as an indestructible-on-our-turn attacker while a dense token package feeds polymorph effects into giant creatures. The primary plan is to keep the board clean with mass removal, generate Warrior/Phyrexian tokens, then use Transmogrify, Reality Scramble, or Lukka to turn those tokens into Darksteel Colossus, Zetalpa, or Bearer of the Heavens. Zurgo acts as both a ten-turn commander-damage clock and a survivor of the deck's own wipes, especially with equipment like The Spear of Leonidas. Secondary paths use Chandra's Ignition on a boosted Zurgo or Lukka's ultimate to convert board power into damage; Bearer of the Heavens is a hidden reset that can clear everyone else while Zurgo and indestructible permanents remain.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Angelic Destiny
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arcbond
• 1 Argent Dais
• 1 Avengers Disassembled
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Bearer of the Heavens
• 1 Big Apple, 3 a.m.
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Burn Down the House
• 1 Cascading Cataracts
• 1 Castle Ardenvale
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chandra's Ignition
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Chaotic Transformation
• 1 Cleansing Wildfire
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Darksteel Citadel
• 1 Darksteel Colossus
• 1 Darksteel Ingot
• 1 Defenders of Humanity
• 1 Divergent Transformations
• 1 Doc Ock's Tentacles
• 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1 Drossforge Bridge
• 1 Erode
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Fountainport
• 1 Geomancer's Gambit
• 1 Gleeful Demolition
• 1 Glimpse the Impossible
• 1 Goldmire Bridge
• 1 Grand Crescendo
• 1 Haunted Plate Mail
• 1 Idol of Oblivion
• 1 Infiltration Lens
• 1 Jaya, Fiery Negotiator
• 1 Kefka, Dancing Mad
• 1 Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast
• 1 Mardu Charm
• 1 Martial Coup
• 1 Minions' Murmurs
• 1 Mirrex
• 1 Mogg Cannon
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Nibelheim Aflame
• 1 Nomad Outpost
• 1 Oblation
• 1 Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins
• 1 Painful Truths
• 1 Path to Exile
• 5 Plains
• 1 Raiders' Spoils
• 1 Reality Scramble
• 1 Realm of Koh
• 1 Requiem Monolith
• 1 Riot Control
• 1 Rugged Prairie
• 1 Rustvale Bridge
• 1 Secluded Starforge
• 1 Secure the Wastes
• 1 Self-Destruct
• 1 Shattered Landscape
• 1 Shifting Shadow
• 1 Skyclave Relic
• 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Springjack Pasture
• 1 Staff of the Storyteller
• 1 Start // Finish
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Tablet of Discovery
• 1 Take Up Arms
• 1 The Spear of Leonidas
• 1 Transmogrify
• 1 Ultimate Magic: Holy
• 1 Urabrask's Forge
• 1 Urza's Sylex
• 1 Vanquish the Horde
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
• 1 White Sun's Twilight
• 1 Will of the Mardu
• 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn
• 1 Zurgo Helmsmasher