Dryad Arbor
Asked by wallsh 10 years ago
I am confused how this card works.
Is it able to be countered?
Does it count as creature entering battlefield?
and why is it so expensive?
Can it also be tapped for mana on turn it's played?
Dryad Arbor is also a body that can attack. It's also resilient to much of the green/black removal, which normally say "Non-creature" or "Non-land" permanent, much like Maelstrom Pulse or Abrupt Decay . Additionally, as a fetch-able land, it can be a surprise against Liliana of the Veil 's -2 ability as well as filling up the land/creature spot, not unlike Celestial Colonnade . It triggers creature ETB as well as allowing Birthing Pod activations with no other creatures. Lastly, if it dies somehow, it returns with Living End .
June 3, 2014 8:10 p.m.
I forgot to answer the rest.
Dryad Arbor is affected by summoning sickness. He cannot tap the turn he comes down unless granted haste. It's just like any other mana dude. As a land, it is not a spell, and therefore cannot be countered. Hope I answered all your questions!
Absinthman says... Accepted answer #1
Dryad Arbor is played as a land. It doesn't use the stack, it's not a spell, it can't be responded to (thus can't be countered), it has no mana cost, and it counts as your land play for the turn.
It counts as both a creature and land entering the battlefield. Because it is a creature, it suffers from summoning sickness as normal creatures do.
It's expensive because you can do all sorts of shennanigans with it, for example, crack a fetch land and get yourself a surprise blocker, sacrifice it to Natural Order , find it with Green Sun's Zenith with X=0, and there are certainly myriads of other uses I can't think of right now.
June 3, 2014 9:01 a.m.