“"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"”
Urborg
Card Rules and Details
Card Type: Legendary Land
Oracle Rules Text: {T}: Add {B}. {T}: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.
Flavor Text: "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"
Set: Masters Edition III (#214), Rarity: Uncommon, Artist: Bryon Wackwitz
Legendary
Land
Black
Uncommon
Historical Printings & Sets (1)
1 Languages
Official Rulings (5)
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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