Dryad Arbor
Asked by hassankachal 11 years ago
Can someone please tell me how Dryad Arbor works? Do you have to pay mana for it? can it attack as though it has haste, because basic lands come into play untapped without summoning sickness?
It cannot tap for mana the turn it enters, it is played as your land for turn.
March 17, 2014 10:03 p.m.
You play it like a land. One land a turn, sorcery speed only, only on your turn.
It's not a creature spell, does not use the stack, cannot be responded to, has no mana cost, is green. Triggers anything that triggers off a land or a creature entering trigger off of it entering the battlefield. As it is a Forest, it has "T: Add G to your mana pool."
As it is a creature, it cannot attack or use its "T: Add G to your mana pool" ability unless you have controlled it since the beginning of your last upkeep or it gains haste somehow.
Drilnoth says... Accepted answer #1
Dryad Arbor is both a Land and a Creature.
Lands, even if they have another card type, are played as lands (they don't have costs, they don't use the stack, they count as your "land drop" for the turn when you play them, and they can only be played when you could cast a sorcery).
Permanents which are creatures are affected by summoning sickness. So, just like an Artifact Creature has summoning sickness, so does a Land Creature like Dryad Arbor . Since it doesn't say it enters the battlefield tapped, it enters the battlefield untapped, but with summoning sickness.
Basically, treat it as both a Land and a Creature for all purposes, noting that the Land-playing rules take precedence over the Creature-playing rules.
Hope that helps!
March 17, 2014 10:02 p.m.