Dryad Militant

[knopfler]

Hello.

Sorry if I shouldn't post this here, it's not a rule question, it's about card review.

Dryad Militant I think this card is top because it will help us against several decks types as:
Aggro Loam
Lands
Dredge
All Spells
ANT (adnauseam tendrills)


And against cards like:
Punishing fire
Snapcaster mages

I believe that this card allows us against several decks and cards while also protects our instants/sorceries from extirpates/surgical extraction casted by our opponents and finally makes tamos weak

What do you think about this card?

Regards

[Chatto]

The fact it Sees Little to no play says it all. Personally, why should you want to play this card? Most of the time it does nothing to stop the effect of an instant or sorcery.

[Megadeus]

I love the card. I don't think that it's good unfortunately.

[Ronald Deuce]

Hello.

Sorry if I shouldn't post this here, it's not a rule question, it's about card review.

Dryad Militant I think this card is top because it will help us against several decks types as:
Aggro Loam
Lands
Dredge
All Spells
ANT (adnauseam tendrills)


And against cards like:
Punishing fire
Snapcaster mages

I only play Dredge, Storm, and sometimes All Spells out of the group of decks you listed, but here's my thinking:
—If you're playing against Dredge, it's good to stop Faithless Looting, Cabal Therapy, and Dread Return, but the deck doesn't rely on those things if it's built well. One reason to run a full quad of Ichorids, for example, is that you don't need to rely so much on Cabal Therapy to produce tokens.
—All Spells is often too fast to warrant throwing a non-Force of Will/Mindbreak Trap/Ravenous Trap/Surgical Extraction into your sideboard. You can win off of Dryad Militant if you hit it on your first turn and you're on the play, but how likely is it that you'll land it afterward?
—People assume that Storm decks rely more on the graveyard than they really do. Though Past in Flames is AnT's best enabler, you should never underestimate a line of early play that goes like, "land, ritual, ritual, Lion's Eye Diamond, Tutor, Ad Nauseam." Your opponent is already at five spells, and they often have mana floating. TES is perhaps better here, because it's more likely to just pop Empty the Warrens without wasting time filtering the deck for a Tendrils for 20.

Interested to hear what you think if you test the card, though!

[knopfler]

Hello.

Thanks for your answers.

I do not pretend stop sorceries/instants with dryad, you have other spells instead. I believe is a interesting card which ability helps against recovering sorceries or instants from graveyard and legacy is a format where many cards do it so I believed that with this card you were protecting against many decks archetypes.

I posted a personal maverick deck where it should be the best deck to test but I haven't got free slots where I cut Hymn to tourach ,thoughsize and birds of paradise because I needed some more slots.

I started the post because I believed that was a interesting and polivalent card.

I have no chance to test it at the moment but I would like.

Regards

[Megadeus]

I think if this card would see play, it would be more of a death and taxes, zoo, or even old school weenie aggro style deck.

[Finn]

Yeah, I tried this card out for a good bit in D+T when it was first available. At one mana, I really wanted to like it. But it had the problem of being useless at affecting cards already in the graveyard. Unlike something like Mother of Runes and Deathrite Shaman, which are good throughout the game - quite a rarity for a 1-drop, but nearly required for a control deck (and this is a disruption card, isn't it?) - this fellow was pretty close to a dead draw after only a few turns. The Tarmos were already big and threshold had been established. I'm sure it is similar today.

[Dark Ritual]

I really wanted the card to be good, but the problem lies in it needing to be cast turn 1 as well as there being tons more hatebears that are better out there than this at hosing decks over.

[Zombie]

Yeah it's a card that wants to be played as 4-of but just isn't good enough for it. It'd be really nice if it was a Crypt effect.

[tescrin]

Unfortunately she's mostly relegated to casual Soldier decks, because even with several "strictly better" attributes, she's just not good enough.
It can be good enough as a 1-of in GSZ decks; although even then I normally saved my GSZ for Scooze, and if you have E-tutor you'll just get a better card rather than GSZ your counter; if that makes sense.

You could probably make it work in something; but no one has figured out that something yet, so it probably just doesn't work lol. As Mega says, Zoo sounds like it's best option; but it is still competing with Shaman (who can do a similar role), Goblin Guide (which will add a free two damage by comparison), and the other beaters that are often in zoo.

If you really want to run it, run it as a 1-of in Maverick and you'll probably be happy enough with it. Then your only problem will be playing maverick ;)

[MaximumC]

Militant, as people have said, it a fine first turn play if you're in for that kind of thing. I really belongs in a white weenie build, where it is one of 8 - 12 one drops that ensure you are pushing at the ground right away. It's ability is really just a minor advantage to that.

I also use it in Selesnya Aggro (y'know, Civic Saber, the Blades from Alara, etc) sometimes.