Can I use fetch-lands to pull out Dryad Arbor?

Asked by Thedren_The_Inquisitor 12 years ago

Dryad Arbor 's typing states Land Creature-Forest Dryad,.. And on the gatherer one of the ruling texts says "Forest is the land type of Dryad Arbor ." So my question is that can I pull it out of my deck with The Onslaught-Zendikar Fetch Lands? Misty Rainforest , and Wooded Foothills clearly say Forest, so can they get Dryad Arbor ? If not please explain to me why not

Sidneyious says... #1

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=136196

June 28, 2012 4:26 a.m.

BrokenZygoma says... Accepted answer #2

You absolutely may. If the card states that it is a forest, then any card that says you can search for a "forest" card will let you get any card that contains the card type "forest".

June 28, 2012 4:26 a.m.

WHY HAVE PEOPLE NOT BEEN DOING THIS!?

June 28, 2012 4:33 a.m.

BrokenZygoma says... #4

I can guarantee that people have. Maybe not a lot but definitely happens.

June 28, 2012 4:36 a.m.

I guess it's one of those small things people don't think about until it's used on them, I was making a Simic Tempo deck on here and searched for Forest and it showed up and the lightbulb clicked

June 28, 2012 4:40 a.m.

BrokenZygoma says... #6

Well hes definitely nice to have. You can play him and Llanowar Elves turn 1 :)

June 28, 2012 4:42 a.m.

actually the Dryad Arbor has summoning sickness, which is the only drawback, it says so on the card sorry

June 28, 2012 5 a.m.

Tyqar says... #8

You can totally also use card:Green Sun's Zenith turn 1 for x=0 and snag Dryad Arbor =D

June 28, 2012 6:12 a.m.

I am aware of that combo, however I am more interested in using fetch lands

June 28, 2012 6:17 a.m.

Virlym says... #10

Another combo I like to do is having Soul Warden , card:Ajani's Pridemate, and Knight of the Reliquary out. Use the Knight of the Reliquary 's ability to get a Misty Rainforest , use it's ability to get a Dryad Arbor . You make the Knight of the Reliquary and the card:Ajani's Pridemate bigger at the end of their turn.

June 28, 2012 9:48 a.m.

vila_a23 says... #11

The reason people don't use fetch's to get dryad arbor is that it is affected by summoning sickness. Fetching arbor is considerably worse than just fetching a basic forest and playing say a Llanowar Elves or card:Avacyn's Pilgrim

June 28, 2012 10:33 a.m.

I wouldn't call it worse but it is something you have to do when you are not needing to use all mana in one turn, I think that there is gigantic strategic uses for it being fetchable, instant speed chump blocker, guaranteed creature when you need it seems good to me

June 28, 2012 4:28 p.m.

Fangs+ponies says... #13

One card Crop Rotation .

December 15, 2013 10:23 p.m.

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