Urborg

Legendary Land

{T}: Add {B} to your mana pool.

{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"

Illus. Bryon Wackwitz

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/4/2004: The ability can be used on a creature without First Strike or Swampwalk but has no effect.
• 4/1/2008: 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.
• 10/1/2009: 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.
• 10/1/2009: 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.
• 10/1/2009: Urborg's second ability affects only the first strike ability, not the part of the double strike ability that acts like first strike.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander