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Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Legendary Land

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

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
C
Rarity
mythic
Set
Tales of Middle-earth Commander
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#72
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Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth card art
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth turns every land on the battlefield into a Swamp at zero cost — your nonbasics tap for black, your opponents' basics get the same treatment, and the only price is a land slot. The corner cases matter too: pair it with Kormus Bell and every land becomes a 1/1 creature, which Toxrill, the Corrosive is very happy to slug with slime counters.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Toxrill, the Corrosive

Toxrill, the Corrosive

47.0% of decks · synergy 0.27

Toxrill, the Corrosive blankets the board in slime counters, and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth unlocks its activated ability on every land you control — so even a greedy mana base can pay the black costs without sacrificing fixing.

02
Kethis, the Hidden Hand

Kethis, the Hidden Hand

45.5% of decks · synergy 0.27

Kethis, the Hidden Hand runs a dense legendary permanent package that often stretches its mana base thin across multiple colors; Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth patches the black pips on every land in play, smoothing out hands that would otherwise be uncastable.

04
Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge

Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge

39.3% of decks · synergy 0.26

Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge rewards running a high density of legendary permanents across three colors, and the black pip in its casting cost shows up constantly; Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth lets a greedy three-color land base reliably produce black without dedicating extra slots to basics.

05
Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Ezio Auditore da Firenze

27.4% of decks · synergy 0.21

Ezio Auditore da Firenze needs black mana reliably in a three-color shell where the land base is already doing a lot of work; Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth guarantees that access without crowding out other color requirements.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth is a near-staple for any deck with meaningful black pips — it fixes mana silently, supercharges Cabal Coffers, and occasionally enables combo lines like the Kormus Bell interaction. In Legacy, it sees play in Reanimator and other black-based combo decks that want to reliably cast spells off a streamlined mana base. Modern is where it earns its keep in graveyard and control shells that need consistent access to black without running a full suite of black fetches. Pioneer allows it and it surfaces in black devotion strategies, though the format's faster clock limits how much a utility land matters. Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth is legal in Vintage and Oathbreaker as well, though in Vintage the power ceiling of the format makes a non-fast-mana land a marginal inclusion.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth has had multiple printings across premium and regular sets, which has kept its price accessible relative to its impact — check current listings on Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the cheapest version you're comfortable sleeving. Any printing plays identically, so buying the least expensive copy is the correct call.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.