This is the very first entry in my *Weird Things You Can Do in Magic: The
Gathering* series, where I chain rules interactions together to do something
the game never intended.

## The trick

I start with a noncreature artifact, Darksteel Ingot, and peel its identity
away one layer at a time:

- **March of the Machines** turns it into an artifact creature.
- **Humble** strips its abilities and makes it a 0/1.
- **Neurok Transmuter** removes "artifact" from it. Since it is no longer an
  artifact, it stops being a creature too, leaving just a blue permanent.
- **Thran Lens** then removes even its colour.

## The payoff

By the end it is not an artifact, not a creature, not even a colour. It is
just a thing sitting on the battlefield, a permanent with no types at all.
That is exactly the kind of daft, rules-bending corner of Magic I love to dig
into, and it kicked off the whole series.