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Urborg

Legendary Land

LEGLegends#310uncommon

"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"

Border
black
Frame
1993
Pull rate
~1 in 20–12533
Illustrator
Bryon Wackwitz
Found in
Legends Booster Pack · Legends Italian Booster Pack · Dominaria United Collector Booster Pack
Printings3
CommanderLegalModernNot legalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHLegal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.
Market · per finishspark updated 15h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+1.1%
$18.59
$13.50 low$3.00 gap
Cheapest playable copy$18.59· across 3 printings

Rulings

5 · latest Oct 1, 2009 · one tap opens all
  • WotCOct 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.

  • WotCOct 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.

  • WotCOct 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.

  • WotCApr 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.

  • WotCOct 4, 2004

    The ability can be used on a creature without First Strike or Swampwalk but has no effect.