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What happens if you control a Blood Moon and a basic Mountain at the same time?

Short answer
Nothing unusual — your basic Mountain is unaffected. Blood Moon only alters nonbasic lands; basic lands retain all their normal characteristics.

Blood Moon reads: "Nonbasic lands are Mountains." The key word is nonbasic. A basic Mountain is a basic land, so it falls entirely outside Blood Moon's effect. It continues to function exactly as printed — a basic land with the Mountain subtype that produces one red mana.

Under CR 305.6, basic lands are defined as lands with the supertype 'Basic.' Blood Moon's continuous effect (a type-changing effect under CR layer 4, and an ability-removing effect under CR layer 6) applies only to lands that do not have the Basic supertype. Your Mountain already is a Mountain with its normal mana ability, so the enchantment changes nothing about it.

It's also worth noting that even if Blood Moon somehow tried to apply to a basic land, the basic land's printed text and subtypes are part of its copiable characteristics and would interact under the layer system — but the card's own wording simply excludes basics entirely, so that situation never arises.

Concrete example: You control Blood Moon, a basic Mountain, and a Stomping Ground (a nonbasic land). Your Stomping Ground loses its Forest and Mountain subtypes and all its printed abilities, becoming a Mountain that taps for one red mana. Your basic Mountain is completely unaffected and still taps for one red mana as normal.

HIGH confidence CR 305.6 CR 613.1 CR 613.3 CR 613.4
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