Blood Moon versus Chromatic Lantern

Asked by DemonDragonJ 8 years ago

If one player controls a Blood Moon and another player controls a Chromatic Lantern, what abilities shall the second player's nonbasic lands have?

I presume that the lantern's ability is applied atop of the moon's ability, so all of the second player's nonbasic lands shall be mountains that can be tapped for any color of mana.

Is that correct?

swkelly89 says... #1

even though the land is a mountain, lantern's ability will still allow it to tap for any color of mana

September 8, 2015 10:12 p.m.

FancyTuesday says... Accepted answer #2

Yes, they will have Mountains that can be tapped for any color mana. Both abilities are applied, and do not conflict with each other. Blood Moon defines a type change and Chromatic Lantern gives all of their lands an additional activated mana ability. So they are Mountains that read:

: Add to your mana pool.

: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

September 8, 2015 10:13 p.m. Edited.

erabel says... #3

I wanna say this is a timestamp issue (someone who actually remembers layers tell me if I'm wrong). Blood Moon turning nonbasics into Mountains also makes them lose all other abilities and subtypes. If it came first, then the Lantern, the lands have the ability "T: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool", because that ability was added on a later timestamp. If it came after the Lantern, the lands would lose that ability.

September 8, 2015 10:16 p.m.

swkelly89 says... #4

erabel timestamps are more for like Blood Moon vs Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth where the land type changes. lantern's ability will always be on the land, no matter what it changes to

September 8, 2015 10:21 p.m.

FancyTuesday says... #5

Blood Moon doesn't say anything about losing abilities, only that those lands become Mountains, which have a defined rules text. Abilities granted by other sources will not be affected.

Prismatic Omen would be an example of a card where timestamps mattered with Blood Moon. Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth would be the same deal but it's a non-basic land so that one sorts itself out pretty quick.

September 8, 2015 10:31 p.m. Edited.

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