Urborg (ME3)
Legendary Land
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: 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"
214/230
uuid: 7c826a09-fc33-5f2a-bf00-d65030501ed8
Legalities
- brawl: banned
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- modern: legal
- pauper: legal
- pioneer: banned
- standard: banned
- vintage: legal
Rulings
- 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:
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.
- 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.