Magus of the Moon

Take one of the sharpest manabase taxes ever printed and rebuild it on a 2/2, and the trade-off reorganizes the whole proposition. The static ability is identical to Blood Moon's: every nonbasic land becomes a Mountain the moment this resolves, with the same immediacy and the same crushing effect on greedy three- and four-color manabases, which collapse into a single red source. What changes is the wrapper. A creature is reachable in ways an enchantment never is: it can be tutored with creature searchers, blinked, reanimated, returned from the graveyard by any path a Wizard can ride, and it pressures life totals in the meantime. That access is bought at a real cost, because the lock now answers to every removal spell in the format, including the burn and combat tricks the opponent can still cast off basics. This is the recurring bargain of the Magus cycle: take a defining noncreature card, transplant its text onto a body, and accept fragility in exchange for creature-type interaction. Few of those reprints carry the weight this one does, because the effect it copies was already a punishing, asymmetric tax. A deck built on basics and pseudo-Mountains pays nothing to keep its own mana intact while flattening the opponent's; the asymmetry is the entire design, and the body is what lets you assemble and protect it on terms an enchantment cannot offer.