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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012

We've got Taken for Granite for petrification and Transflormation for plant transformations, but is there something for generally killing things by turning them into inert matter?
(The specific example I was thinking of was a D&D dragon that has a breath weapon that turns people into loose sand, which doesn't strike me as being covered under Forced Transformation precisely.)