Urborg
Masters Edition III (ME3) #214 · Uncommon · 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 · Released September 7, 2009
Printings
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander #519 (LTC) · Rare · 2023 · $27.79 USD
- Masters Edition III #214 (this printing) · Uncommon · 2009
- Legends #310 (LEG) · Uncommon · 1994 · $18.64 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Not legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2004-10-04 · wotc — The ability can be used on a creature without First Strike or Swampwalk but has no effect.
- 2008-04-01 · wotc — 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 · wotc — 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 · wotc — 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 · wotc — 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.