There are a variety of decks in Legacy that spam Moon effects but become quite unreliable due to the acceleration involved. That said, I quite like the idea posted to put it into a Goblin deck. I'd have to try it out but they not only like accel (which could be used instead of Lackey) but they get a lot of natural card advantage.
Goblins tend to be good at beating other mono-color decks either because they're blue (Piledriver) or because of nasty kill cards like Incinerator while getting actual card advantage unlike D&T.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(1/28/2014 3:23:29 PM)
My favorite card in Magic. The existence of this card has a very positive effect on the metagame in the eternal formats because it makes deckbuilders have to balance the inclusion of basic and non-basic lands in the mana base. Otherwise, there wouldn't be as much incentive to play one or two-colored decks with all the mana-fixing available in those formats.
Posted By:
absreim
(2/11/2014 7:58:23 AM)
@DarthParallax: Could have sworn all tournament-legal foils were black-bordered, even the core set ones.
Posted By:
Continue
(3/3/2014 6:44:49 PM)
I already know that it does, but I still can't wrap my head around how this affects Madblind Mountain, a nonbasic land that already is a Mountain.
Posted By:
Raexs
(3/9/2014 9:11:14 PM)
@The_Trendkill: Even if it's not, it's more than worth playing a full set of Spirit Guides
Posted By:
j_mindfingerpainter
(3/23/2014 10:12:27 AM)
When I first saw this card, I didn't realize that it got rid of the abilities of the lands. That function of Blood Moon is REALLY unintuitive. Why does simply giving a land the Mountain subtype make the land lose all of its abilities other than tapping for red mana? I mean, Dralnu's Crusade doesn't Goblins lose their abilities, so why should this?
Posted By:
OlvynChuru
(4/23/2014 8:16:05 PM)
@OlvynChuru The key phrase that differentiates Dralnu's Crusade from this is the "in addition to its other types" phrase. If Blood Moon also had a similar phrase, it would've let nonbasic lands keep their original types. As is, it literally turns all nonbasic lands into mountains.
See Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth for an effect closer to what you were expecting.
Posted By:
RyugenS
(5/2/2014 4:35:54 AM)
Trait Doctoring
All nonbasic lands are . . . . islands?
Posted By:
Syrtees
(5/13/2014 8:13:42 PM)