Steel Magnolia

Steel Magnolia is a in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, and a member of the  class. It costs 3 to play, and has 2/2. It has no traits, and its ability gives +2 to all plants in its lane, including itself, and the lanes adjacent to it.

Origins
It is based on the magnolia, a type of flower and steel, an alloy of Iron, Carbon, Chromium, and Nickel. Its name may be a reference to the movie Steel Magnolias.

Statistics

 * Class: Guardian
 * Tribe: Flower Plant
 * Traits: None
 * Ability: When played: Plants here and next door get +2.
 * Set - Rarity: Premium - Uncommon

Card description
''She's got nerves of steel... and everything else of steel!''

With
Steel Magnolia's strength may be a bit lackluster, but its ability allows plants to survive more hits including itself and to ensure longer board control, being a highly effective plant both for its stats and contribution to your setup.

You can use it to boost the health of either a tanky plant that would be useful to take more hits, like Soul Patch or Hibernating Beary, or a frail plant to prevent it from being destroyed easily, like Mushroom Ringleader or. Since Steel Magnolia is a flower, Wall-Knight can use it effectively in his flower-based deck.

Against
While Steel Magnolia doesn't hit very hard, its ability is what makes it troublesome. It can boost the health of a frail or badly damaged plant so that it just gets out of destroying range, or just make defensive plants even more annoying. 4 health alone is also quite a lot for the third turn too. It is recommended to bring some high-strength zombies to counter its ability, and since there are many plants in the  class, Squirrel Herder is a good counter too because they instantly destroy them regardless of health. Evaporate, Locust Swarm, and B-flat are also decent choices.

Trivia

 * Its description refers the idiom "nerves of steel."
 * It is one of the three flowers that are made of metal, the others being Metal Petal and Metal Petal Sunflower.
 * Out of the three, this is the only one which is not a Sunflower variant.