MTG Salvation

In the last thread, your votes decided this card is best off without any flavor text. That means all that's left is a bit of cleanup on the wording.

Can we agree on a wording? I've created three possible templates for wording cleanup based on everyone's feedback in previous threads. I'm open to making minor tweaks (including the word "permanent") to correct the wording in any of them, but don't want to make functional changes since that affects people's votes. Of course, if the majority thinks none of these are satisfactory, we can hammer out something that does work in the comments of this thread.

Wording A:

You may have Evergrove enter the battlefield tapped as a copy of a Dryad permanent you control.
Evergrove enters the battlefield tapped.
t: Add G to your mana pool.

Wording B:

You may have Evergrove enter the battlefield tapped as a copy of any Dryad you control. It gains the ability: "T: Add G to your mana pool."
T: Add G to your mana pool.

Wording C:

Evergrove enters the battlefield tapped.
As Evergrove enters the battlefield choose one -
• Evergrove becomes a copy of any Dryad permanent you control.
• Evergrove gains "T: Add G to your mana pool."

The last wording shows Druid instead of Dryad. Is that intentional?

All of those wordings are flawed. Wording A is unclear as to whether it enters the battlefield tapped if it copies a Dyrad, which is what all the hubbub about the wording was in the first place. Wording B is incorrect, it doesn't enter tapped if it doesn't copy a Dyrad. Wording C is unnecessarily complicated just to clarify functionality.

Can't we just add "tapped" to the Dyrad copy clause of Wording A?

(For what it's worth, my original intention was that the land lost the mana ability if it copied a Dyrad.)

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All of those wordings are flawed. Wording A is unclear as to whether it enters the battlefield tapped if it copies a Dyrad, which is what all the hubbub about the wording was about in the first place. Wording B is incorrect, it doesn't enter tapped if it doesn't copy a Dyrad. Wording C is unnecessarily complicated just to clarify functionality.

Can't we just add "tapped" to the Dyrad copy clause of Wording A and move on?

(For what it's worth, my original intention was that the land lost the mana ability if it copied a Dyrad.)

Then this should do:

Evergrove
Tribal Land - Dryad
Evergrove enters the battlefield tapped.
You may have Evergrove enter the battlefield tapped as a copy of a Dryad you control.
T: Add G to your mana pool.

If you don't copy anything, it enters tapped for the first ability and has the mana ability.
If you copy a Dryad, it copies it while also entering tapped, both because of the second ability. The first and last abilities should be lost (I'd need to check the CR to be 100% sure).
Vesuva helps us with the wording, and the word "permanent" is not necessary, as when you mention a subtype in rules text it already means a permanent with that type, unless specified otherwise. It's the reason why tribal lords, for example Elvish Archdruid, need to specify "Elf creatures". If it just said "Elves", noncreature Elf permanents would get the bonus too (if it was possible, this is just an example). In fact, note the use of "Elves" in the second ability. There it doesn't specify anything, so hypothetical noncreature Elf permanents also count.

Quote from Moss_Elemental »

The last wording shows Druid instead of Dryad. Is that intentional?

Nope. Good catch! It was from a copy/paste but I definitely appreciate the proof-reading.

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All of those wordings are flawed. Wording A is unclear as to whether it enters the battlefield tapped if it copies a Dyrad, which is what all the hubbub about the wording was in the first place. Wording B is incorrect, it doesn't enter tapped if it doesn't copy a Dyrad. Wording C is unnecessarily complicated just to clarify functionality.

Can't we just add "tapped" to the Dyrad copy clause of Wording A?

(For what it's worth, my original intention was that the land lost the mana ability if it copied a Dyrad.)

While technically redundant, adding "tapped" to Wording A does clear up the confusion people had about it so I wouldn't be opposed to that. Bravelion83's wording seems pretty spot-on, but we've had the argument across several threads about whether the word "permanent" needs to show up or not and we've seen conflicting examples provided from Wizards. While it may be redundant, clearly its presence resolves some confusion for some players. For the same reasons we want to include "tapped" in the copy ability, we should also include "permanent". I've updated Wording A to provide this clarity, as no one has voted yet.

At this point, I would go with Wording A. It's always better to be less ambiguous with wording than more ambiguous, so adding an extra "tapped" and "permanent" certainly do not hurt.