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I would like to see an ugly dryad printed. Just one.

Dryads aren't supposed to be ugly.

Anyway, play this with Summoning Trap or any card that can put creatures into play from your library. In fact, even Beast Hunt, a not-so-good card, could become usable with this.

Okay... I think that Wormwood Dryad is kinda ugly. But still, it depends on personal preferences.

hello Congregation at Dawn, meet Thrumming Stone

Lurking Predators and this can really shut down a game. "If you cast a spell, I get a free Emrakul."

lets sages of the anima work quite well

I choose Enlisted Wurm, Bloodbraid Elf, and Wooly Thoctar.

Really helps set up combos, and as mentioned in other posts has a place in combos itself. The fact that it is an instant allows it to be used at the end of an opponents turn to keep mana open for some combat tricks/removal, and should never be underestimated. drawing one of these when manaflooded or in a tight spot can turn the game around.

I choose Enlisted Wurm, Bloodbraid Elf, and Wooly Thoctar like SquareHippyn said. but play panglacial wurm from library also.

I always saw this card as a marriage between the dryad and the centaur for some reason...freaky horse-man on tree-chick thoughts abound.

@Square hippy
It won't work like you think it will. Cascade only works on cast creatures.

This card has made me lose games though. Only because I put 3 creatures on my library when I probably should have waited for a board wipe.

Worldly Tutor x 3 at three times the cost. Quick decks with toolboxes of utility creatures will still want worldly, but where mana is less of an issue, like EDH, this one should get played. If you don't like all that glut at the top of your library, search for a Mulldrifter or an Elvish Visionary to put on the top. You really can't go wrong. I like having an enchantment or two in hand, then searching for enchantresses. Or having a dredge card in my library like Life from the Loam or Moldervine cloak, then setting up my graveyard for something like a Sun Titan recursion or a Vengeful Pharaoh, Glory, Hatred or other GY related trick. This one plays Buried Alive in the right green white deck. There really is no equal for this card.

Just don't cast this while mana starved and put something like Wood Elves on top. Did that once, won't do it again, lol.

Yay, a three mana zero-for-one!

Unless you happen to have Greater Good and you tutor up three Yosei's. Then this is a three mana win-for-one.

So a Centaur, a Knight, and a Dryad walked into a bar.

The bartender said to the Centaur, "Hey buddy, need a drink? You're looking a little hoarse!"

I know the mana base would be hard to pull off, but damn, do I want to use this with Demigod of Revenge.

I use this in a 'semi-dryad tribal edh deck', and mostly like to put the Chorus of the Conclave, Dryad Sophisticated, and the Yavimaya Dryad on top. Also comes perfect, if you use Mayael, the Anima as a general to be able to fetch for 3 fatties the next rounds.

An Oracle of Mul Daya + 2 Dryad Arbors would be kinda funny too. This way it even would come great at earlier game.

@alblast
Cascade casts the revealed card. So cascade chains like the one Square hippy described do work.

I always thought this was a Rare, considering how effective of a card tutor this is. Although a little colour-heavy, there are so many applications this can achieve:

Low on creatures? You won't be for a few turns!
Want to put fear in your opponents? Make them look out for Lurking Predators!
Late game and need a win condition? Pft! Who needs one creature when you can get THREE!

All in all, it's a great card perfect for EDH. Just watch out for early games and low-land hands.

I think you guys are critically undervaluing this card.

Then again, maybe there's just no Constructed Format to really abuse its power in besides Casual.

1) It's as sharply costed as the Mirage Tutors. To my knowledge, no other card *in. the. game* comes quite nearly as close to be a multi-tutor for the *same mana cost*. Gifts Ungiven and Buried Alive may come the closest but stipulations still require they be played not quite like Demonic Tutor would be.

2) Creatures have been *seriously* on the rise since the original Ravnica Block, and Deck Strategies have evolved somewhat too. Not many people are seriously going to be interested in what the next Burn Spell is for Red in the context of an all-spells Red Deck Wins-- Red cards are essentially either Black or White cards, depending on if they're creatures or if they kill creatures. While non-Gold decks are not a thing of the past, at the same time Mono-Color Decks today have to do about as many things as Gold Decks did in Invasion to get anywhere. Mythic Rarity allows some Creatures to be almost equal to or even better than some Planeswallkers. Artifact-Equipment cards turned out to be much more influential on the game also than was quite guessed by the time this card made it to print.
Sure, they were a known quantity, but like Creatures, Artifact-Equipment deal more with the Battlefield than the Stack, and the game is now about the Battlefield more than anything else (in much part it's due to that being the only way to prevent Planeswalker Decks from running absolute havoc.) Mid-Range decks of every Color of the Rainbow abound in Standard every year, with heavy reliance on the 'spells' tacked onto already-fat-bodies.

The point is, "Creature" is a far better card type to search for than Instant or Sorcery nowadays anyway, unless it's a really mana-heavy Instant or Sorcery, something that Board Wipes or does something like Cryptic Command or Sphinx's Revelation.

3) I DON'T think we'll be seeing this card in Standard again, but it's possible we *may* see it on a Planeswalker.

4) GW/x decks should almost always play 4, Creature Decks should almost always splash for at least 2.5 (2 main 1 side), and Combo decks should consider playing it in wacked decks that do stuff like Emrakul the Aeons Torn.

This effect will never be 3 mana again.


4.8/5 Stars.