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The spell Druid Grove has an oddly specific material component that is consumed but is otherwise costless: "A mistletoe harvested with a golden sickle under the light of a full moon" (XGE, p.154).

At level 20, an Arcdruid can ignore material components that don't have a cost and aren't consumed (PHB, p.64).

Does that mean that the druid can ignore material components that have no cost but are consumed?

Just have this idea of a high-level naked druid wandering in the forests creating temporary sanctuaries all over. But I don't know whether the druid itself has to have the component for Druid Grove on hand, or can just be completely naked.

Senmurv
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    It seems like you're answering your own question here -- you quote the relevant rule and then ask if the relevant rule really means it? What's the alternative interpretation of the rule that wouldn't lead to needing the specific component? – Darth Pseudonym Jul 04 '21 at 04:10
  • @DarthPseudonym I think part of the question is how to read the natural language boolean logic. – Ryan C. Thompson Jul 04 '21 at 12:54

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No. The Archdruid feature does not allow you to ignore material components that are consumed.

Archdruid states:

Additionally, you can ignore the verbal and somatic components of your druid spells, as well as any material components that lack a cost and aren’t consumed by a spell.

Use of the word “and” indicates you can ignore a material component only if both the following are true:

  • it has no cost
  • it is not consumed

The material component for druid grove is:

mistletoe, which the spell consumes, that was harvested with a golden sickle under the light of a full moon

Since the mistletoe is consumed, it must be provided - it cannot be ignored with the Archdruid feature.

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