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Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Legendary Land

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.

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (ltc)
LTC · #405zmythic
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Normal: $63.13
Foil: $72.87
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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