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Urborg

Card Name

Urborg

Type

Legendary Land

Rarity

Uncommon

rules Text

: Add to your mana pool: Remove first strike ability or swampwalk ability from target creature 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"

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Modern, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(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.