Dryad of the Ilysian Grove Extra Land Drop
Asked by Sobrinho 4 weeks ago
If I have a Dryad of the Ilysian Grove in play, and after my first land drop, my opponent kill or exile her, I still have some how the extra land drop of her ability ?
plakjekaas says... #2
Also, if playing a land causes an ability to trigger, the opponent gets to respond before you get to play your second land
May 15, 2024 4:45 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
Sobrinho: Answers to your question has been up for a while. Since there don't seem to be any more follow-ups or corrections that need to be made, I marked one of them as the "Accepted answer" so this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. In the future you can take care of this yourself using the "Mark as Answer" button on the response that you feel is the most helpful answer to your question.
I try to avoid marking my own responses when I do this, but in this case it was the most complete option.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
No, you won't be able to play another land in that example. In the current rules, you determine whether or not you can play a land by comparing how many land plays the game currently says you have to how many you've already played this turn. If the Dryad is gone, you've already made a land play, and there isn't anything else giving you additional plays, then that's it.
Keep in mind that playing lands doesn't use the stack and the active player gets priority again after a spell resolving, so if you want to go land-Dryad-land or Dryad-land-land, there's no opportunity for an opponent to "respond" by killing your Dryad before you play your second land. If you do something else in-between the Dryad and that second land, however, then the opponent will be able to respond with something.
Some previous versions of the rules allowed you to specify which "drop" you were using as you played each land, but it allowed for unintuitive situations where a player could use the additional drop, blink the object that was giving it, and then use its additional drop again. It was an odd and somewhat complicated rules quirk that was smoothed out when the rules for land plays were revised to the current version.
May 15, 2024 9:19 a.m. Edited.