Urborg

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"
Details
  • Artist: Bryon Wackwitz
  • Collector Number: 310
  • Available only as nonfoil
  • Rarity: uncommon (U2 LL3)
  • Released: 1994-06-01
  • Set: Legends
Legalities
Rulings
  • 2004-10-04 The ability can be used on a creature without First Strike or Swampwalk but has no effect.
  • 2008-04-01 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.
  • 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 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.
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