Once we have creatures that can change their own creature type we start looking at making creatures that can change other creatures types: Then we have non-creature cards that change creature type: This, of course, led to a card that could only change creatures to a single locked type: One of the flavors of black over the years is that black likes to bring others over to the dark side
This specific copy was owned and signed by the original artist, the late Christopher Rush, and comes from a pedigreed collection, making it a unique piece of Magic's developmental history
In Magics first ten years, that philosophy seemed operational enough to make a decent number of them
Thankfully, Magic: the Gathering has a card for just that
Elsewhere in my newly established Jurassic World Magic card collection, there are plenty of familiar faces of both the human and dinosaur variety
Perfect for the Wild Defiance style deck