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Ivy Dancer

Creature — Dryad Shaman2 generic manaGreen mana

Forestwalk is the most matchup-dependent evasion ability in the game: it slips an attacker past every blocker when the defending player controls a Forest, and does nothing at all when they do not. What this little Dryad does is detach that keyword from the creature that owns it and turn it into a repeatable grant, handed out at will to whatever attacker needs to get through. The cost is steep relative to the payoff: a tap and a 1/2 body's worth of board presence spent on an effect that is blank against half the field. Against a blue-white control deck it sits there as a 1/2 with no relevant text. Against a green-heavy opponent it ushers a fatty through unblocked, every turn, indefinitely. That swing, between dead weight and a soft lockout, explains why a repeatable, color-keyed evasion grant lives at the lower rarities: it is the narrow, flavor-forward tool a designer reaches for when filling out a green slot. The Shaman framing fits an era fond of giving Dryads and forest-spirits abilities that bend the woodland itself to a creature's purpose, and there is something coherent about a forest-spirit teaching an ally to walk unseen through trees. As repeatable evasion it is real, but it asks the format to cooperate by being green, and the table rarely obliges.

Ivy Dancer (rav)
RAV · #171uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
Foil: $0.51
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Target creature gains forestwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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