Tribute to Urborg
Instant
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, that creature gets an additional -1/-1 until end of turn for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #25486
Tribute to Urborg drains every opponent for 1 life and makes a 2/2 black Zombie token — all for two mana at instant speed. It's a clean rate that pulls double duty as incremental life loss and board presence, and there's no build-around required to make it work.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Tribute to Urborg earns its slot in any black deck that wants cheap, instant-speed interaction with a body attached — Zombie tribal, aristocrats, and drain-life strategies all want this. The token sticks around to sacrifice, block, or trigger payoffs, and the life drain adds up in a four-player game. Outside Commander, the card is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Modern, Pioneer, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the effect is too incremental to compete in those faster, two-player formats where a 2/2 and a single life point of drain rarely change outcomes.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Tribute to Urborg is deep bulk — you'll find it in a dollar box or tossed into a trade binder as filler. That price is stable by definition: there's no spike coming for a common with this effect, but it also means you're never taking a loss running it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.