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Dryad Arbor

Land Creature — Forest Dryad

(This land isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "{T}: Add {G}.")

CMC
0
Mana cost
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Time Spiral Remastered
Price
$4.93
EDHREC rank
#761
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Dryad Arbor card art
Dryad Arbor is a land that enters as a creature — it taps for green mana and counts as a body for creature-matters payoffs simultaneously, which is a genuinely unusual axis of value. The cost is summoning sickness and vulnerability to creature removal, but in any deck running Springheart Nantuko or Winter, Cynical Opportunist, that creature clause is a feature, not a liability.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Winter, Cynical Opportunist

Winter, Cynical Opportunist

82.2% of decks · synergy 0.72

Winter, Cynical Opportunist triggers off creatures entering, so Dryad Arbor turns a land drop into a trigger — you play your land for the turn and immediately feed Winter's engine without spending a card.

02
Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

78.9% of decks · synergy 0.69

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest cares about creatures dying or being sacrificed, and Dryad Arbor slots in as a free creature that costs nothing extra to put on the battlefield — it's a sacrifice outlet target that replaces itself on the mana base.

03
Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

62.6% of decks · synergy 0.53

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch rewards you for controlling permanents of multiple types simultaneously, and Dryad Arbor checks both land and creature at once, satisfying two categories with a single card.

05
Witherbloom, the Balancer

Witherbloom, the Balancer

45.4% of decks · synergy 0.36

Witherbloom, the Balancer operates on life-payment loops and creature sacrifice, and Dryad Arbor provides a no-cost creature body on the mana base — a free sacrifice fodder piece that never costs you a card slot beyond the land drop.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Dryad Arbor earns its slot in creature-token, landfall, and aristocrats strategies as a Forest that doubles as a creature, letting you fetch it with Green Sun's Zenith for zero to find a land and a body in one move. Legacy is its most competitive home — the Green Sun's Zenith-for-zero line is a staple in Lands and green-based toolbox decks, where a turn-one fetchable creature-land is genuinely broken in context. In Modern and Vintage, Dryad Arbor sees fringe play in the same GSZ shells, though both formats have enough fast interaction that summoning sickness is a real cost. Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are off the table entirely, so Commander and older singleton formats are where it lives.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$4.93 cheap tier

At $4.93, Dryad Arbor sits at the low end of unique-effect staples — cheap for a card with no functional reprint and a niche that no other card occupies. It's a stable pick: the creature-land interaction is narrow enough that demand won't spike dramatically, but broad enough across Commander archetypes that the floor holds.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.