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Yavimaya Dryad

Multiverse ID: 220560

Yavimaya Dryad

Comments (16)

xDavid
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0) (1 vote)
I prefer Coiling Oracle in a green-blue deck by far early in the game, I suppose this would be decent later in the game because you can make it unblockable at the cost of giving your opponent a land.
OrzhovGhostCouncil
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
I would agree, if the Archenemy deck it comes in was green-blue. As it is, it's green-white.
krumtheslow
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Hey look it's Princess Buttercup!
Wormfang
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
this has nice synergy in an elf deck with elvish champion :) suddenly all your elves are unblockable
EpicBroccoli
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (4 votes)
Making forestwalk creatures actually viable? Nice!
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Also can double as a land for your mana screwed ally in Two-headed giant.
Or any player in multiplayer, as long as you expect gratitude in return.
Templar314
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Even if you don't want to give your opponent a land, it's still like a Rampant Growth glued to an Elite Vanguard, which is quite nice.
Norrinthewary
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0) (1 vote)
best play of my life came from this card. i was playing my mono white clerics and had just taken a hard hit my friend plays this giving me a forest and ends his turn. i had completely forgotten i had put Vitalizing Wind into the deck as a proxy...top deck of win.
Dabok
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
At the Time Spiral draft I went in, I had 4 of these and a Jedit Ojanen of Efrava, fun times :D
DjDym
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love this card for so many reasons. I'm not a big fan of the art (it's not bad, just not my style, but usually that is the case with guay with me), but I have used this to win many games so far and will win many more. I was surprised at how efficient this card was at getting me from point a to point c without a need of point b. It is fun to use no doubt.
creepycrawler
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Use in multiplayer, Oh how nice, making friends with mana gifts. Then Lumbering Satyr! Bwha ha ha ha!

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blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Makes a load of sense in archenemy because:
- Giving your ally a land can ramp him or mana fix him in a deck/color that misses out on those things
- Is card advantage, which is a good thing to have as an AE
- If you're the AE, helping only one of your enemies is ok.

One would be keen to notice that this also grabs dual lands! The fact that it can rampant growth, card advantage, and manafix, AND deck thin; is pretty important. Worthy of a 1 or 2-of in GSZ based decks as it can ramp you when you need it to. A fun play when in top-deck mode late game is Eternal Witness into this. You get 4 power worth of creatures and pull yet another land out of your deck.

I'd note that Forestwalk is actually pretty desirable in Legacy right now.
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Interesting that you can donate the forest to an opponent. Creative way to enable forestwalk =D
TriadArbor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I adore this card. I really do. It's already a beautiful example of Rebecca Guay's artwork, but here are some of the many wonderful things this card can do:
It's a creature that can make itself and other forestwalkers unblockable. It could technically even make other kinds of landwalkers unblockable if you chose a dual land.
You can give yourself spare forests to thin your deck and increase your mana base. If they're special ones you can even color fix this way.
When playing Two-Headed Giant (or even politics) you can give someone else a land to help them out a bit.
I built a deck combining this and Cipher, especially Stolen Identity. Making token copies of this card means more forests to put wherever the heck you want/need. Dryad Arbor's another good one to copy, but copying Yavimaya means more unblockables as well.
Ultimately, this card encapsulates so much of what I love to do in this game: Mana ramp, play politics, swing unblockably, admire wonderful artwork.
Madarakita
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Run this in a monongreen EDH

My general is Mirri, Cat Warrior.

"What blockers?"