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Dryad Arbor

Mana value: 0 · Color identity: Green

Land Creature — Forest Dryad

(This land isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "Tap: Add Green mana.")

Power / toughness: 1 / 1

"Touch no tree, break no branch, and speak only the question you wish answered."
—Von Yomm, elder druid, to her initiates

Flavor text may vary by printing.

Card format legality
Commander
Legal
Modern
Legal
Pioneer
Not legal
Standard
Not legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Not legal

Format status describes the underlying Magic card, not eligibility of this printed product for sanctioned play.

Updated

Card rulings 7
  1. Due to its color indicator (appearing to the left of its type line), Dryad Arbor is green. Color indicators apply in all zones, not just the battlefield.
  2. If Dryad Arbor is changed into another basic land type, it continues to be a green Dryad creature.
  3. If a Dryad Arbor gains flash, or you have the ability to play Dryad Arbor as though it had flash (due to Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir or Scout's Warning, for example), you can ignore the normal timing rules for when during your turn you can play a land, but not any other restrictions. You can't play Dryad Arbor during another player's turn, and you can't play Dryad Arbor if you don't have any land plays remaining.
  4. Forest is a land type and Dryad is a creature type.
  5. Dryad Arbor is played as a land. It doesn't use the stack, it's not a spell, it can't be responded to, it has no mana cost, and it counts as your land play for the turn.
  6. Although originally printed with a characteristic-defining ability that defined its color, this card now has a color indicator. This color indicator can't be affected by text-changing effects (such as the one created by Crystal Spray), although color-changing effects can still overwrite it.
  7. If Dryad Arbor is changed into another basic land type (such as by Sea's Claim), it continues to be a creature and a Dryad.

Updated

Dryad Arbor occupies an unusual space as both a land and a creature. Playing it uses a land play rather than casting a spell, and its Forest type lets it produce green mana and be found by effects that search for Forests. Because it is also a creature, it is affected by summoning sickness and normally cannot tap for mana on the turn it enters.

Green Sun's Zenith can find Dryad Arbor with X equal to zero, turning the Zenith into an early way to put an additional land creature onto the battlefield. Fetch lands that can search for a Forest, such as Wooded Foothills or Windswept Heath, can find it as well. That creates access to a creature through a land-search effect when a blocker or sacrifice body is needed.

Creature and land synergies both apply. It can carry Equipment, be sacrificed to creature-based costs, or be returned by effects that recover lands. At the same time, a creature board wipe can destroy it and reduce your available mana. Keep that exposure in mind before treating it as interchangeable with an ordinary basic Forest.

The timing of a fetch matters. Finding Arbor during an opponent's end step can let you untap with access to its mana, while finding it during your own main phase generally does not. Include it when the ability to search for a creature through land or green-creature tutors provides enough utility to justify the extra vulnerability and delayed mana access.

Weight 0.0125 lbs
Dimensions 0.0 × 0.0 × 0.0 in
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