Quote Originally Posted by Dread_Head View Post
You choose whether to take a racial substitution level at the point you level up though. Once you've taken that level there aren't any rules for reverting to normal druid if you no longer qualify so you keep the substitution level. So you can choose either of the half orc and shifter subs at 1 and 4 and take the half orc one at 6th for Augment Summoning (which if you were planning on taking it anyway makes up for the feat spent on racial emulation). Then later if you want to enter Seeker of the Misty Isle you emulate an elf until you level up (note that as you lose PrC benefits if you lose the prereqs you would have to stay an elf to retain the abilities). It's not the most amazing choice but it lets you pick and choose racial subs and can make qualifying for some things easier.
True. Still, the race itself does very little otherwise, so you'd need to pick up roughly two feats worth of value, maybe more, from these abilities. It looks like you get at least a good amount of the way there though, so it's at least worth consideration.

They are a bit expensive for a one use item but can be useful if you really need them. Same as with the others. If your looking at fleshing out the miscellany section then they are probably at least worth mentioning.
Maybe. The limit on spell type is somewhat... limiting though, as swift castings go. What're you actually casting here? My list under the substitution levels has the bite of the were X spells of the right levels, resist energy, the +4's to ability scores, and vigor. It's not necessarily a list that's massively worth making swift. I could always be missing something from both lists, a spell that's in that level range, self targeting, and which benefits from a swift casting.