Dryad Arbor
Dryad Arbor: Land Creature - Forest Dryad, Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana value
- 0
- Type
- Land Creature - Forest Dryad
- Colour identity
- Green (G)
- Power / toughness
- 1/1
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)
- Released
- 2024-09-27
- Collector number
- 273
- Artist
- Eric Fortune
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About Dryad Arbor
Dryad Arbor is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare green land creature from Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC), a Commander product released in September 2024. It is collector number 273 in that set, with art by Eric Fortune. As a land, it has no mana cost. It is a 1/1 creature. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and PreDH. It has been printed in 7 sets, from Future Sight (2007) to Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $3.90 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
(This land isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "{T}: Add {G}.")
"Touch no tree, break no branch, and speak only the question you wish answered." -Von Yomm, elder druid, to her initiates
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $3.90 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Dryad Arbor by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
Other printings of Dryad Arbor
Dryad Arbor has been printed in 7 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2281 | Rare | 2026 |
| Mystery Booster 2 (MB2) #108 | Uncommon | 2024 |
| Time Spiral Remastered (TSR) #277 | Rare | 2021 |
| The List (PLST) #FUT-174 | Uncommon | 2020 |
| From the Vault: Realms (V12) #5 | Mythic | 2012 |
| Future Sight (FUT) #174 | Uncommon | 2007 |
Official rulings
Seven official rulings apply to Dryad Arbor, newest first.
- If Dryad Arbor is changed into another basic land type, it continues to be a green Dryad creature.
- Due to its color indicator (appearing to the left of its type line), Dryad Arbor is green. Color indicators apply in all zones, not just the battlefield.
- Dryad Arbor is played as a land. It doesn't use the stack, it's not a spell, it can't be responded to, it has no mana cost, and it counts as your land play for the turn.
- Forest is a land type and Dryad is a creature type.
- If a Dryad Arbor gains flash, or you have the ability to play Dryad Arbor as though it had flash (due to Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir or Scout's Warning, for example), you can ignore the normal timing rules for when during your turn you can play a land, but not any other restrictions. You can't play Dryad Arbor during another player's turn, and you can't play Dryad Arbor if you don't have any land plays remaining.
- Although originally printed with a characteristic-defining ability that defined its color, this card now has a color indicator. This color indicator can't be affected by text-changing effects (such as the one created by Crystal Spray), although color-changing effects can still overwrite it.
- If Dryad Arbor is changed into another basic land type (such as by Sea's Claim), it continues to be a creature and a Dryad.