Urborg
Legendary Land
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.
“Resignedly beneath the sky/The melancholy waters lie./So blend the turrets and shadows there/That all seem pendulous in air,/While from a proud tower in town/Death looks gigantically down.” —Edgar Allan Poe, “The City in the Sea”
Illustrated by Bryon Wackwitz
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Alchemy
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Explorer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Timeless
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Oathbreaker
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
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Notes and Rules Information for Urborg:
- The ability can be used on a creature without First Strike or Swampwalk but has no effect. (2004-10-04)
- If a creature loses first strike after first strike combat damage has been assigned, it won’t deal damage during the second combat damage step. (2008-04-01)
- You choose whether the targeted creature loses first strike or swampwalk as the ability resolves. If the creature has both abilities, it will lose just one of them. (2009-10-01)
- Causing a creature to lose swampwalk is useful only during the declare attackers step or earlier. Once the declare blockers step begins, it’s too late to block the creature. (2009-10-01)
- Urborg’s second ability affects only the first strike ability, not the part of the double strike ability that acts like first strike. (2009-10-01)