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Blood Moon removes all abilities from a land (other than the ability to tap for Red mana that being a mountain gives), and removes all land subtypes by overwriting them with Mountain. What it does NOT do is mess with supertypes or actual card types. For example, your Highland Weald<\/a> will only tap for R with the Moon out, but it’s still a Snow permanent. A legendary land such as Minamo, School at Water’s Edge<\/a> will only tap for red mana, but it’ll still be Legendary. And, relevant to the current tip of the day, a Darksteel Citadel<\/a> that’s gone Mountainous on you will still be an artifact, so it’ll still count for Affinity and Cranial Plating<\/a>, and it’s still a legal target for spells such as Wear \/\/ Tear<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now, why would you target a Citadel with Shatter? Because becoming a basic land type removes all printed abilities! Your Citadel is still an artifact, but it’s not indestructible anymore. Sad times ahead! <\/p>\n Today’s Rules Tip written by Trevor Nu\u00f1ez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blood Moon is pretty powerful, but it can’t do everything. While it can make a Darksteel Citadel stop being indestructible, it can’t stop it from being an artifact!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[38,131],"tags":[967,1092],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-4120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-characteristics","category-interactionofcontinuouseffects","tag-blood-moon","tag-darksteel-citadel","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4123,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions\/4123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>For almost as long as greedy manabases have existed, there have been cards that punish players for their hubris in using them — Blood Moon<\/a> is one of the classics. It renders any nonbasic land, no matter how humble or how grand, into a (hopefully!) useless Mountain, leaving your opponent’s grip full of tricks dead in hand. <\/p>\n