Urborg

Legendary Land

"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"

Artist:

Bryon Wackwitz

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: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.

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.