Price$3.08 – $17.63
Buy on TCGplayerDryad Arbor
Land Creature — Forest Dryad
LegalRank #756
(This land isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "
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Why is this card good?
Dryad Arbor is a quirky utility piece — a land that's also a green creature, which opens up niche but powerful interactions.
The main draw is fetchability: any fetch land (Wooded Foothills, Misty Rainforest, etc.) can grab Dryad Arbor untapped, effectively turning your fetch into a creature-tutor at instant speed. That's relevant for sacrifice fodder, blocking, or enabling effects that care about creatures entering.
Who wants it:
- Green aristocrats/sacrifice decks that want a free body to sac (it survives a board wipe of lands, dies to a board wipe of creatures — flexible chump).
- Convoke/creature-count payoffs that benefit from an extra cheap creature.
- Combo/tutor shells using fetches to find a creature on demand.
Caveats: It enters tapped if not fetched and has summoning sickness, so it can't tap for mana the turn it lands normally. It's also vulnerable to creature removal and edicts, making it a fragile mana source. Skip it unless you're actively exploiting the land-creature duality — otherwise it's just a worse Forest.
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