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Ape Smash (on a budget)
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $101.58
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Commander

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Kibo, Uktabi Prince

{T}: Each player creates a colorless artifact token named Banana with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add {R} or {G}. You gain 2 life." Whenever an artifact an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control that's an Ape or a Monkey. Whenever Kibo attacks, defending player sacrifices an artifact.

Creature
Kibo, Uktabi Prince (j22) 40
1

Advantage

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (mkc) 223
1
Colossal Majesty

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.

Enchantment
Colossal Majesty (clu) 160
1
Crime Novelist

Whenever you sacrifice an artifact, put a +1/+1 counter on Crime Novelist and add {R}.

Creature
Crime Novelist (mkm) 121
1
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (lcc) 235
1
Demand Answers

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Demand Answers (mkm) 122
1
Descent into Avernus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two descent counters on Descent into Avernus. Then each player creates X Treasure tokens and Descent into Avernus deals X damage to each player, where X is the number of descent counters on Descent into Avernus.

Enchantment
Descent into Avernus (clb) 169
1
Goblin Anarchomancer

Each spell you cast that's red or green costs {1} less to cast.

Creature
Goblin Anarchomancer (mh2) 200
1
Gorilla War Cry

Cast this spell only during combat before blockers are declared. All creatures gain menace until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Gorilla War Cry (all) 73b
1
Gruul Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Artifact
Gruul Signet (clu) 223
1
Inspiring Call

Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Instant
Inspiring Call (lcc) 244
1
Kami of Whispered Hopes

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Kami of Whispered Hopes's power.

Creature
Kami of Whispered Hopes (mom) 196
1
Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Kodama's Reach (lcc) 245
1
Liquimetal Torque

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact
Liquimetal Torque (brc) 145
1
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (lcc) 248
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (mkc) 237
1
Talisman of Impulse

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {G}. Talisman of Impulse deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Impulse (scd) 281
1
Viridian Revel

Whenever an artifact is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Viridian Revel (som) 132
1

Anthem/Equipment

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Fires of Yavimaya

Creatures you control have haste. Sacrifice Fires of Yavimaya: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Fires of Yavimaya (scd) 228
1
Rising of the Day

Creatures you control have haste. Legendary creatures you control get +1/+0.

Enchantment
Rising of the Day (ltr) 427
1
Sting, the Glinting Dagger

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has haste. At the beginning of each combat, untap equipped creature. Equipped creature has first strike as long as it's blocking or blocked by a Goblin or Orc. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sting, the Glinting Dagger (ltr) 701
1
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (lcc) 314
1

Counters

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Hardened Scales

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Enchantment
Hardened Scales (lcc) 243
1
Invigorating Hot Spring

Invigorating Hot Spring enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it. Modified creatures you control have haste. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.) Remove a +1/+1 counter from Invigorating Hot Spring: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery and only once each turn.

Enchantment
Invigorating Hot Spring (neo) 223
1
Taurean Mauler

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Taurean Mauler.

Creature
Taurean Mauler (nec) 111
1

Interaction

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Abrade

Choose one — • Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature. • Destroy target artifact.

Instant
Abrade (lci) 131
1
Ancient Grudge

Destroy target artifact. Flashback {G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Ancient Grudge (tsr) 151
1
Anzrag's Rampage

Destroy all artifacts you don't control, then exile the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of artifacts that were put into graveyards from the battlefield this turn. You may put a creature card exiled this way onto the battlefield. It gains haste. Return it to your hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Sorcery
Anzrag's Rampage (mkm) 111
1
Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (lcc) 233
1
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (lcc) 216
1
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (mkc) 149
1
Decimate

Destroy target artifact, target creature, target enchantment, and target land. (You can't cast this spell unless you have legal choices for all its targets.)

Sorcery
Decimate (mkc) 204
1
Fade from History

Each player who controls an artifact or enchantment creates a 2/2 green Bear creature token. Then destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Sorcery
Fade from History (bro) 177
1
Liquimetal Coating

{T}: Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact
Liquimetal Coating (cm2) 197
1
Manglehorn

When Manglehorn enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact. Artifacts your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Manglehorn (plst) AKH-175
1
Overwhelming Stampede

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Sorcery
Overwhelming Stampede (c19) 175
1
Primitive Justice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay {1}{R} and/or {1}{G} any number of times. Destroy target artifact. For each additional {1}{R} you paid, destroy another target artifact. For each additional {1}{G} you paid, destroy another target artifact, and you gain 1 life.

Sorcery
Primitive Justice (all) 77
1
Red Sun's Twilight

Destroy up to X target artifacts. If X is 5 or more, for each artifact destroyed this way, create a token that's a copy of it. Those tokens gain haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.

Sorcery
Red Sun's Twilight (one) 145
1
Return to Nature

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard.

Instant
Return to Nature (moc) 309
1
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (cmm) 267
1

Land

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Cinder Glade

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) Cinder Glade enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Cinder Glade (mkc) 255
1
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (mkc) 256
1
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (lcc) 328
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mh3) 308
15
Game Trail

As Game Trail enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Mountain or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, Game Trail enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Game Trail (mkc) 264
1
Gruul Turf

Gruul Turf enters the battlefield tapped. When Gruul Turf enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Land
Gruul Turf (clu) 238
1
Kessig Wolf Run

{T}: Add {C}. {X}{R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

Land
Kessig Wolf Run (mkc) 269
1
Mossfire Valley

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Land
Mossfire Valley (mkc) 274
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (blb) 276
9
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (mkc) 279
1
Rockfall Vale

Rockfall Vale enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Rockfall Vale (mid) 266
1
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (mkc) 284
1
Temple of Abandon

Temple of Abandon enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Abandon enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Temple of Abandon (mkc) 301
1
Treetop Village

Treetop Village enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {1}{G}: Treetop Village becomes a 3/3 green Ape creature with trample until end of turn. It's still a land. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Land
Treetop Village (j22) 827
1

Monki

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Ferocious Tigorilla

Ferocious Tigorilla enters the battlefield with your choice of a trample counter or a menace counter on it. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Creature
Ferocious Tigorilla (iko) 115
1
Gearbane Orangutan

Reach When Gearbane Orangutan enters the battlefield, choose one — • Destroy up to one target artifact. • Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, put two +1/+1 counters on Gearbane Orangutan.

Creature
Gearbane Orangutan (mkm) 129
1
Gorilla Berserkers

Trample; rampage 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.) Gorilla Berserkers can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Creature
Gorilla Berserkers (all) 93a
1
Gorilla Shaman

{X}{X}{1}: Destroy target noncreature artifact with mana value X.

Creature
Gorilla Shaman (mh2) 280
1
Grunn, the Lonely King

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.) If Grunn, the Lonely King was kicked, it enters the battlefield with five +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever Grunn attacks alone, double its power and toughness until end of turn.

Creature
Grunn, the Lonely King (dom) 165
1
Hooting Mandrills

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Trample

Creature
Hooting Mandrills (j22) 671
1
Kird Ape

Kird Ape gets +1/+2 as long as you control a Forest.

Creature
Kird Ape (plst) EMA-137
1
Kird Chieftain

Kird Chieftain gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Forest. {4}{G}: Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Creature
Kird Chieftain (m15) 151
1
Kogla and Yidaro

When Kogla and Yidaro enters the battlefield, choose one — • It gains trample and haste until end of turn. • It fights target creature you don't control. {2}{R}{G}, Discard Kogla and Yidaro: Destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. Shuffle Kogla and Yidaro into your library from your graveyard, then draw a card.

Creature
Kogla and Yidaro (mom) 244
1
Kogla, the Titan Ape

When Kogla, the Titan Ape enters the battlefield, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. Whenever Kogla attacks, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls. {1}{G}: Return target Human you control to its owner's hand. Kogla gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Kogla, the Titan Ape (iko) 162
1
Monkey Cage

When a creature enters the battlefield, sacrifice Monkey Cage and create X 2/2 green Monkey creature tokens, where X is that creature's mana value.

Artifact
Monkey Cage (j22) 787
1
Raging Gorilla

Whenever Raging Gorilla blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Raging Gorilla (vis) 90
1
Scrounging Bandar

Scrounging Bandar enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from Scrounging Bandar onto another target creature.

Creature
Scrounging Bandar (j22) 726
1
Silverback Elder

Whenever you cast a creature spell, choose one — • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • You gain 4 life.

Creature
Silverback Elder (dmu) 177
1
Silverback Shaman

Trample When Silverback Shaman dies, draw a card.

Creature
Silverback Shaman (j22) 728
1
Simian Simulacrum

When Simian Simulacrum enters the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Unearth {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature Artifact
Simian Simulacrum (bro) 205
1
Simian Spirit Guide

Exile Simian Spirit Guide from your hand: Add {R}.

Creature
Simian Spirit Guide (tsr) 190
1
Summit Apes

As long as you control a Mountain, Summit Apes has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Creature
Summit Apes (wwk) 114
1
Towering Gibbon

Reach Towering Gibbon's power is equal to the greatest mana value among creatures you control.

Creature
Towering Gibbon (j22) 46
1
Tree Monkey

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Creature
Tree Monkey (9ed) 275
1
Uktabi Orangutan

When Uktabi Orangutan enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact.

Creature
Uktabi Orangutan (j22) 133
1
Wily Bandar

{2}{G}: Wily Bandar gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature
Wily Bandar (j22) 739
1
Yavimaya Steelcrusher

Enlist (As this creature attacks, you may tap a nonattacking creature you control without summoning sickness. When you do, add its power to this creature's until end of turn.) {1}, Sacrifice Yavimaya Steelcrusher: Destroy target artifact.

Creature
Yavimaya Steelcrusher (dmu) 152
1
Zodiac Monkey

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)

Creature
Zodiac Monkey (9ed) 285
1

Budget Cuts

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Dockside Extortionist

When Dockside Extortionist enters the battlefield, create X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of artifacts and enchantments your opponents control. (Treasure tokens are artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Dockside Extortionist (2x2) 107
1
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (cmm) 295
1
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

Whenever Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card. Dash {1}{R} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Creature
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer (mh2) 138
1
Tyvar's Stand

Target creature you control gets +X/+X and gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (A creature with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Tyvar's Stand (one) 190
1

Maybeboard

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Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

Instant
Nature's Claim (plst) IMA-177
1
Structural Assault

Destroy all artifacts, then Structural Assault deals damage to each creature equal to the number of artifacts that were put into graveyards from the battlefield this turn.

Sorcery
Structural Assault (snc) 126
1

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