#urborg

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Urborg

"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 TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[niuttuc]

A commission by @duskguard of Zarunpel's bonded shadow panther and mount, Velumbra, with a cameo of the knight herself.

She was great to work with, and why I love working with artists that know the source material: They came up with the idea of the hammer at the end of Zarunpel's braids from me just stating it was weighted for combat, and the aesthetics and habits of Knights of Garenbrig.

Beyond that, there will be a dinner of elk meat and shadow that evening!

[magicwithclass]

Reality Twist

{U}{U}{U} • Enchantment • Cumulative upkeep {1}{U}{U} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice

I never realized that this card has a 5 color identity. It can only be played in commander decks that are five colors. All 5 mana symbols appear on the card but the triple blue in the casing cost made me the think this could be played in mono blue. Your islands would not be affected but your opponent would have to think very carefully about how to use their mana. The fact that this card only fits in 5 cor decks definitely limits its playability. Also, the fact that this doesn't have any effect on lands without basic land types. At least, it works on nonbasic lands like the trilands from New capenna. This seems like a stax card meant to disrupt your opponents mana but there are a bunch of problems. First, people do not like stax and people do not like you messing with their lands. This card is probably going to be frowned in edh and it seem too weak for cedh. Next, I do not like playing cards with triple specific mana costs in a 5 color deck. Triple blue is just not viable in a 5 color deck unless you are primarily blue and splashing the other colors. Furthermore, if your opponent is playing mono blue or heavy blue then this card doesn't do much. The cumulative upkeep is also such a tax on your own mana. 3 mana to keep this in play and it only increases from there? I should also note that naked singularity has a very similar effect for the same upkeep cost but has a generic casting cost at 5 mana. If you are playing one you might be playing the other. Reality twist is certainly a strange and fairly unique card but it does not see much play. The top commanders include all the 5 color commanders but most of those decks skip this. One combo would be to make your opponents lands all one land type to attempt to lock them out of the color mana they need to cast. Blood moon and those effects synergies well with this card as do lands like urborg tomb of yawgmoth. Who knows what the future has in store for this card. Any card that can lock you out of mana can be competitive but there are a lot of reasons why this will never see play in our reality.

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Urborg Scavengers by Svetlin Velinov

[littjara-mirrorlake]

love this piece of urborg worldbuilding so much.

i love it when “monsters” are just some guy. i love it when humans live with the supernatural in harmony. i love it when necromancy is okay. i love it when spirit creatures. i love it w

[phenax]

I missed another Fanwalker Friday b/c brain sucks, so have these two boys! 

Top is Artexi, he’s from Urborg, and refers to himself as a cockatrice. His mother was a gorgon, and his father was an aven. He sparked when he was blinded by hunters and watched his mother die. He’s UBG!

Bottom is Aelwyn, who is a very vapid Lorwyn elf. He sparked when he permitted someone else to trim his hair and they cut it too short, sending him into an existential spiral of misery as he sees no point in living if he’s not beautiful. He’s GB! 

Both boys are open for questions~ :3

[mtg-realm]

Magic: the Gathering - Dominaria Angels & Demons

Artist Dimitar Marinski does a brilliant job at these two very different landscapes - one, a glimpse of the Angelic community on Dominaria and very similar to Serra’s Realm, the other a damp / fetid Urborg swamp with what appears to be a thriving town.

• Dominaria Plains 3 (252/269)

• Dominaria Swamp 3 (260/269)

[magicjudge]

The new Cabal Stronghold will count basic lands I control that are Swamps due to Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth, right?

Yes.

Cabal Stronghold’s second ability counts the number of lands you control that have the basic supertype and the swamp subtype. If you control Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth, then it will count all of your basic lands for this amount since they are all swamps.