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Dryad of the Ilysian Grove

Enchantment Creature — Nymph Dryad

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
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Price
—
EDHREC rank
#283
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Dryad of the Ilysian Grove card art
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove does two things simultaneously that most decks want to do separately: it fixes all five colors through your lands and adds an extra land drop every turn, making it one of the most efficient three-mana enchantments in Commander. The land-type grant is the sleeper text — it turns Glacial Chasm into a snow land for Omo, Queen of Vesuva synergies and enables domain payoffs without running a five-color manabase.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Omo, Queen of Vesuva

Omo, Queen of Vesuva

68.7% of decks · synergy 0.59

Omo, Queen of Vesuva places counters that add land types, and Dryad of the Ilysian Grove pre-loads every land with all basic types — the two abilities stack to make your entire board a type-soup engine that fuels domain, landfall, and utility-land synergies simultaneously.

02
Anikthea, Hand of Erebos

Anikthea, Hand of Erebos

67.6% of decks · synergy 0.54

Anikthea, Hand of Erebos cares about enchantments in the graveyard, and Dryad of the Ilysian Grove is a three-mana enchantment that pays for itself immediately with an extra land drop — it's one of the highest-value targets for Anikthea to reanimate as an enchantment creature.

03
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand

Hazezon, Shaper of Sand

56.6% of decks · synergy 0.50

Hazezon, Shaper of Sand rewards Desert land counts, and Dryad of the Ilysian Grove gives every land the Desert type alongside all other basic types — instant synergy that amplifies Hazezon's token production without requiring a dedicated Desert package.

04
Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

53.1% of decks · synergy 0.50

Baba Lysaga, Night Witch's ability checks for three different permanent types among your permanents, and Dryad of the Ilysian Grove is an enchantment creature that also changes what types your lands are — it ticks multiple boxes while keeping the mana flowing in a deck that wants to cast spells aggressively.

05
Lord Windgrace

Lord Windgrace

57.7% of decks · synergy 0.49

Lord Windgrace wants as many land drops as possible to fuel his plus and minus abilities, and Dryad of the Ilysian Grove's extra land drop each turn is a persistent engine that compounds over a long game — it also smooths the three-color mana without eating a card slot on dedicated fixing.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Dryad of the Ilysian Grove earns its reputation — the combination of fixing, extra land drops, and land-type grants hits three distinct deck-building needs at once, which is why it slots into lands-matter, domain, and enchantress strategies alike. In Modern, it sees play in Amulet Titan and similar big-mana decks where the extra land drop and bounce-land synergies are worth the three-mana investment. Pioneer has less infrastructure to exploit it, so it's a fringe piece there rather than a staple. Legacy has access to more broken enablers and rarely needs a three-mana enchantment to fix its mana, so Dryad of the Ilysian Grove is essentially Commander-adjacent in competitive terms.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data isn't available for Dryad of the Ilysian Grove at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current number. Given its role as a multi-format staple with consistent Commander demand across lands, domain, and enchantress archetypes, it has historically held meaningful value; a reprint would be the most likely driver of any significant price movement.

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