Vine Dryad
Creature — Dryad
You may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Flash
Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $1.05
- EDHREC rank
- #26028
Vine Dryad puts a free 1/3 reach body on the board the moment an opponent plays a forest, with no mana investment required from you. It's a narrow trigger that does nothing in non-green matchups, but in the right meta it's a legitimate zero-cost blocker.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Vine Dryad is a meta-read card — at a four-player table with even one dedicated green player, it will almost certainly enter for free on turn one or two, which is a reasonable ask. Legacy and Vintage are its only other legal homes, and neither has any interest in a 1/3 with a conditional flash trigger when more efficient threats exist. Vine Dryad's ceiling is a Commander table saturated with green decks, and its floor is a dead card in hand against three non-green opponents.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.05 cheap tier
At $1.05, Vine Dryad sits in the cheap tier where the ask is low enough that slotting it as a speculative include carries minimal risk. It's unlikely to climb — it's too narrow for any competitive format and fills a niche role even in Commander — but losing a dollar on a failed experiment is a fine trade.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.