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Zhao, the Moon Slayer

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier1 generic manaRed mana

A menacing 2/2 for 1 generic manaRed mana is the delivery mechanism, but the payload is a two-stage attack on nonbasic mana. The first stage sits on the body from turn two: nonbasic lands enter tapped, a symmetrical tax that slows every fetch, dual, and utility land at the table by exactly one tempo, yours included. The second stage is the conqueror counter, walled off behind a seven-mana activation. When it finally lands, every nonbasic on the battlefield becomes a Mountain, and the design point worth dwelling on is the breadth of what that erases: not just extra land types but every ability the land carried. Creature-lands stop attacking, fixing duals stop fixing, anything doing more than tapping for mana is flattened to a bare red source, opponents and controller alike. This is board-wide land hosing wearing a creature's clothes, and the total symmetry is the whole constraint: the effect only benefits a deck built to shrug off its own Mountain-conversion, which means a manabase leaning hard on basics while the greedy nonbasic engines across the table collapse. Menace keeps the little body pressing life totals through the long setup, so the card has a job to do while you save toward the seven-mana payoff instead of sitting inert until then.

Zhao, the Moon Slayer (tla)
TLA · #376rare
Pricing
Normal: $1.09
Foil: $0.98
Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace Nonbasic lands enter tapped. 7 generic mana: Put a conqueror counter on Zhao. As long as Zhao has a conqueror counter on him, nonbasic lands are Mountains. (They lose all other land types and abilities and have "Tap: Add Red mana.")
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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