Wormwood Dryad
Creature — Dryad
: This creature gains forestwalk until end of turn and deals 1 damage to you. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
: This creature gains swampwalk until end of turn and deals 1 damage to you. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #30920
Wormwood Dryad is a 2/1 for two mana with forestwalk — useful only when an opponent controls a Forest, which is a conditional that doesn't always resolve in your favor. Outside of dedicated landwalk-enabler strategies, the ceiling is too low to justify the slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Wormwood Dryad is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees virtually no competitive play in any of them. In Commander it earns niche inclusion in mono-green stompy or Yedora, Grave Gardener builds where Forests are everywhere and forestwalk becomes reliable evasion — otherwise it's outclassed by a long list of two-drops. Pauper is the format where Wormwood Dryad has the most theoretical footing, since green mirrors are common and the common card pool thins out quickly, but even there it rarely makes the cut.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Wormwood Dryad is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a dollar bin without thinking twice. The price isn't going anywhere; demand is too narrow to move it in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.