Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
A land that pays for itself by paying for everyone. The static ability reaches every land in play, not just yours: it makes itself a Swamp the moment it lands, so it taps for black immediately, and it drags opponents' Islands and Forests into black sources too. That symmetry is the price, but the asymmetry runs the other way, because only a deck built to exploit the rule cares about it. The implications stack from there. Any basic becomes a black source. Swampwalk switches on across the board. Land-count payoffs like Cabal Coffers and Crypt Ghast suddenly see a fully black manabase to count. The wrinkle worth dwelling on is what it does to nonbasic utility lands: they gain Swamp as a type without surrendering their own identity, so a greedy manabase stays castable while every land doubles as a black source. The same clause that feeds those engines also reads its own home as a Swamp, which is exactly what most of the synergy pieces want. Few lands accomplish this much structural work while spending zero mana and occupying a single card slot, and fewer still do it while resembling a do-nothing tutor target. The trade is honest: you hand the table a color and bet that you are the only one positioned to collect on it.

Top Decks
Played Alongside
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- Cabal Coffers1× together
- City of Brass1× together
- Command Tower1× together
- Counterspell1× together
- Cultivate1× together
- Cyclonic Rift1× together
- Damnation1× together
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Other printings
- Pioneer Masters#118
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander#405
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander#375
- Tales of Middle-earth Commander#405z
- The List#UMA-254
- Time Spiral Remastered#287
- Ultimate Box Topper#U40
- Magic 2015#248









