When you have everything you need but a single pay off, you have to just accept this is something the deck will do
Blood Moon has been doing one thing since it was first printed in The Dark back in 1994
This card, in my opinion, is truly complicated and is very hard to resolve without a judge present, because it will be affecting the game completely differently depending on which decks play against eath other
This makes a fantastic Gruul commander to play powerful elves like Marwyn, the Nurturer and a critical mass of mana dork elves
These two cards help cover you against different types of decks once they are out
Now, in fairness, the time when Balance and Mind Twist were legal in Standard predates my time playing Magic , so I don't really know if there was a specific deck or combo that caused these cards to be banned