I'm pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, the last couple times I've been going through Lorwyn, talking about different cards in Lorwyn.

I'm not done yet, so we shall continue on with that. So we are up to Lignify. So Lignify is one in a green, so two mana, one of which is green, tribal enchantment. It's a tree folk

enchant creature. Enchanted creature is a tree folk with base power and toughness, zero four,

and loses all abilities. So this is a good example. I just want to bring it up because this is

the kind of card. If you ever heard me talk about how we sometimes break color pie because we're sort of,

it's not clear what colors can and can't do.

So one of the ideas of green, one of the weaknesses of green is it's over relying on its creatures.

And what that means is that if you have an empty board, if you

know creatures in play, you are not supposed to have spells that make it easy for you to deal

with creatures. So this is a breaking green. Green's not supposed to do this. Blue is the color

of transformation.

For a while, we let white do it.

But anyway, green is not supposed to be the color that does this.

And it is a fundamental break in green mechanically.

But I just want to bring this up in that, hey, I turn you into a tree folk feels pretty green. Like the flavor feels pretty green.

So one of the dangers that we run into in making cards is that it is not hard to make something

that mechanically isn't supposed to be done and flavor in a way that goes, ooh, that feels right.

And so this is a really good example of something where the flavor justifies something

that is not supposed to happen.

It's not supposed to be done.

This is not supposed to be a green card.

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