The two cards featured today are nonbasic land hoser cards. But they're good enough to be ranked where they are because multicolored decks are prevalent and both of these enchantments absolutely wreck those decks. Even if a deck use red mana, turning all of its nonbasic lands into mountains will still screw it up. It works especially well if you're using your own nonbasics to provide acceleration for artifacts or red cards. When you're finished, drop Blood Moon and any drawbacks on those lands goes away. City of Traitors, for example, will continue to function as a mountain rather than dying. But Blood Moon is mainly in here for historical reasons. It was the basis for Magus of the Moon, a creature version. Although Blood Moon won't get destroyed by damage-dealing effects, Magus of the Moon is generally the superior card and makes Blood Moon obsolete.#180: Back to Basics
The ultimate nonbasic hoser. Most of your opponents will use at least some nonbasic lands, and those lands usually have to tap to do anything. With Back to Basics, they'll only be doing that once. Unlike Blood Moon, Back to Basics completely shuts down nonbasics. In both Vintage and Legacy tournaments, monoblue players will frequently maindeck Back to Basics because of how powerful it is. If the opponent isn't playing nonbasics or isn't relying on them, which is uncommon, Back to Basics can be relegated to the sideboard for something else after the first game. Most opponents will have a crippled manabase while the monoblue player builds up a supply of countermagic. Because of the sheer devastation is deals to so many different deck, Back to Basics is one of the highest ranking strategy hosers on this list.
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