Urborg
Legendary Land
: 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"
Legal in
Legacy, Vintage, Commander
Rulings (5)
The ability can be used on a creature without First Strike or Swampwalk but has no effect.
2004-10-04
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.
2008-04-01
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