Now back to topic, I believe that Fish will be hated out of the metagame but will still remain tier 1. This is because you cant hate fish out easily (what you going to side in realistically besides Tsabo's web or slice and dice?)

It's not going to be good against the rest of the field in comparison. Look at the type 1 environment at a glance:

DrainSlaver (NEITHER)          
WorkshopSlaver (NEITHER)  

Wizards does not foster a continuous T1 gaming circuit of any kind - nor will they ever, because the entry barrier (exorbitant premium card prices) will foment the ultimate sin of turning a customer off to your product - not something a company that prints $20 dollar bills on a regular basis wants to do.

Type One has made some serious advances in the last few years.  Notables include:

* Development of an anticipatable metagame in most major tournaments

These boards have a veritable STAFF of people who do monitor T1, but they also are all very competent.  The Type One community has bred a group that knows the format and can monitor his own.  

That's where we have come.  The means to advancing the format has been the spread of the community to a large degree.  Without a place like this, there is no common store of knowledge that people can look to to learn the format.  

Teams are the critical and final step in the evolution of Type One, imo.  I think the meandeck/ shortbus rivalry this summer is going to be extremely healthy.  Let me outline why, and what this entails.

Kushluk - Easy spot removal exists in Keeper/Germbus and Landstill (U/W) (and possibliy EBA), but what else without Wishing?  This leaves the following meta:  Tog, GAT, Slaver, MUD (few, but always there), Dragon, U/G Madness, Fish variants, Combo (Belcher/mirror), Food Chain Gobbos, Workshop/Aggro variants, and the few decks that are dying/dead (Oshawa, Mask, Survival, more Aggro.)  

Tog = Counterwall, Deed, and Tog himself.  However, a Dryad can force a Deed pop, pound in the damage you needed due to a not-full stormcount, and if needed, chump block to RFG some of your opponents cards.

GAT - Beatz vs Beatz.  I've never seen a GAT deck with spot removal, so I actually prefer the Dryad in this matchup.  Like in Tog, you can always block the 'tog and RFG some cards  

Control Slaver - Hell if they hit it, but if not, you're safe.  So what's a Dryad doing in here?  Again, this card can easily hit 4+ damage the turn after it comes into play, and since Slaver usually doesn't pack removal, she's golden.  It gives a definite clock whereas with the Draw7s they can try and hold behind a wall of counters or get out a Platinum Angel.  A single Dryad as won the matchup for me before, being more than the Slaver player can deal with at times.

MUD - I haven't had to face this deck in a while, but it seems to always pop up once or twice at tournys, though with personal twists.  Again, no removal = free smacks.  Karn can stop the Dryad for a turn or two, but in a deck with such prision, if you haven't won by the time they're setting up, it'll already be a tough ride.  Dryad does indeed help, however rare you hit this matchup.

Dragon - Let the race begin!  You often just want to face of with a 'who can combo out first?' mentality, but Dryad = clock as always.  If this turns into a later game (which happens time to time since Dragon packs Forces and Duress/Xantids), create a clock with Dryad.  That simple.

U/G Madness - I have never had the chance to face off this this deck, and couldn't find a JP decklist immediately.  But I would guess it's just as effective here in any control/aggro deck where they're not packing removal, but threats.  Dryad > Madness creatures most of the time, with the exception of Wurms or a giddy Mongrel.

Fish variants - Dryad isn't the best thing when they can easily poke it to death, but if you can ever get this up and running early, it's unbelieveable.  However, dead cards don't belong, so you'd want to SB it out for games two and three.

Combo - Race.  This is one of the matches where Dryad is usually a dead card.  Against Belcher I wouldn't even play it, but save the mana for something else.

Food Chain - You try to race this deck, and the only damage I've seen is when/if they board in blasts, in which case you race anyways.  Dryad = first card to board out.  

Workshop/Aggro - It'll always be there.  Aggro variants streamline there way to tournys one way or another, so I'm always prepared to face them.  However, like against most aggro, you just want to run over them with Tendrils.  Dryad usually doesn't even have to be cast.  

Dying/Dead - Combo out like you would usually want to.  Oshawa can get interesting with a Dryad on the board, though.

If a Keeper/Germbus/Landstill/EBA player sees a Dryad (especially one that's doing damage), they have to ponder leaving in removal.  I've played 3x Dryad's SB 1x MD before and game two stumbled into three swords.  Hence, running one MD may leave them with a dead card or two  game two...

Just my $0.02 on the issue.  I'm not saying that it has to be run, nor saying that I'm completely correct, but posting my experiences.  If I'm wrong on any accounts, please let me know - I'm always eager to make a Tendrils deck more compatible with the meta.  And since the majority of the meta I hit includes Slaver, GAT and Hulk, Dryad has almost always been golden.

~ Alden ~

Mock if you may, but I tend to maindeck a single Quirion Dryad.  The 2cc isn't hard at all, often resolves, and just makes a win easier.  The argument as been waged that, if Dryad doesn't hit first turn, it's not anywhere as potent (i.e. the type of "dead card" Draw7 doesn't want.)  In testing and in tourny's, I've found it to be exactly the opposite - Dryad at any point is a threat, and with the speed and rainbow colors of Draw7, she fits.  Give her a single turn and she'll usually swing for at least 4, counting that your combo didn't go off.  A single turn more than that, and you may not need Tendrils.  

i like the thread for the fact that it tells those who have never played or never play the deck a little about their options.

but i believe your question has already been answered by the already many successes in strong environments. but basically ANY build running the manlands + standstill + curiosity + mana denial + lowcc evading men strategy will do well.

definately. they could hack off half of this list, and no one would have a problem.
the things they should cut:
4-LoA, if u think about it, who would want to play more than one, anyway? by no means am i saying its bad, but really, who even has more than one?
6-regrowth, with a card that regrowths ur ENTIRE LIBRARY running around, this doesn't do too much anymore.
7-enlightened tutor, what did they tutor for? a memory jar?

even some of the evidently broken cards should leave the list, such as fastbond, black vise, and channel (fireball? come on!)

one thing though; crop rotation, while not played, should not be restricted b/c of BoB and Workshop, so don't even argue.

Landstill is a deck that is designed to be consistant. This is why silver bullets suck in it, and why tutors or mini-search engines (Impulse and Brainstorm) don't belong in the deck.

Time and time again, I've seen the control/Keeper matchup listed as a breeze, but my experience in playing against very good Keeper players running tight decks is that it's actually a poor matchup