How does Blood Moon interact with cards that aren't on the battlefield?
Asked by Grantley91 8 years ago
Basically wondering if Blood Moon will change all the non-basic lands someone has in their decks into mountains. So if you changed a mountain into an artifact and then used Splinter on them would you be able to take all non-basic lands out of their deck?
Grantley91 says... #2
Ah, thank you. Do you know of anything that would work like that?
July 7, 2015 4:26 p.m.
TheRedMage says... #3
Notice also that Blood Moon gives nonbasic lands the type "Mountain" but it doesn't change their name.
For example, if your opponent controls a Tundra and you have a Blood Moon, your opponent's land will be a nonbasic land named Tundra with "Mountain" as its only subtype. If you point a Sowing Salt at it (which you can, since Blood Moon did not give them the supertype "Basic"), you will strip their deck of all copies of Tundra, but if they have, say, actual Mountains in thee they are not going to be taken.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1
Blood Moon's ability only affects cards on the battlefield.
Whenever something references a permanent type except by using the phrase "[type] spell" or "[type] card," it references only permanents of that type. Permanents are objects on the battlefield, so objects in other zones are unaffected.
July 7, 2015 3:32 p.m.