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Yavimaya Dryad

Creature — Dryad1 generic manaGreen manaGreen mana

The enters-the-battlefield trigger fetches a Forest onto the battlefield tapped under target player's control, and that "target player" wording is what lifts this above a fragile evasive body. Most ramp creatures grow your own mana base; this one can hand a tapped Forest to anyone at the table. The mechanical payoff hides in the interaction between the two abilities: Forestwalk only makes the Dryad unblockable while the defending player controls a Forest, so gifting the land to the opponent you intend to attack guarantees the swing connects. Ramp and evasion point in the same direction, but the direction is outward, not at your own board. In a multiplayer game the same wording becomes political glue: feed the player you most want to keep placated, or grow the board you'd rather not provoke, and decide each cast where the payload goes. The flexibility is paid for in tempo. The Forest enters tapped, you only ever fetch one, and one toughness means the body dies to almost anything that looks at it. So the rate is modest and the creature is fragile, but the targeting freedom is the design idea: a one-shot fixing spell stapled to a forestwalker, with the unusual license to point its ramp at a rival and turn that gift into an open attack lane.

Yavimaya Dryad (c20)
C20 · #197uncommon
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Normal: $0.28
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.) When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped under target player's control, then shuffle.
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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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