MagicTheGathering.fyi

Baboon Spirit

Creature — Monkey Spirit

Whenever another nontoken Spirit you control enters, create a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token with "This token can't block or be blocked by non-Spirit creatures."
{3}{U}: Exile another target creature you control. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
Price
$0.33
EDHREC rank
#18177
Buy on TCGplayer
Baboon Spirit card art
Baboon Spirit enters as a 3/3 flying Spirit token producer whenever a non-Spirit creature you control dies — meaningful tribal redundancy at three mana. Millicent, Restless Revenant is the obvious home, but The Legend of Kuruk // Avatar Kuruk and any white-blue Spirit shell can extract real value from the replacement effect.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Millicent, Restless Revenant

Millicent, Restless Revenant

19.1% of decks · synergy 0.18

Millicent, Restless Revenant rewards every Spirit token that enters the battlefield, and Baboon Spirit converts each non-Spirit death into exactly that — the two cards form a self-reinforcing loop where creature losses become board presence rather than tempo deficits.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Baboon Spirit is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander — the 100-card singleton format creates enough non-Spirit creature deaths to trigger it consistently and rewards the incremental token generation over a long game. In Legacy and Vintage, a three-mana 2/2 that needs other creatures to die before it produces value is too slow and too conditional to see serious play. Oathbreaker could support it in a white-blue Spirit build, though the smaller starting life total and faster games shrink its window. Outside those formats, Baboon Spirit simply isn't legal.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.33 bulk tier

At $0.33, Baboon Spirit is firmly bulk — easy to acquire and easy to cut without regret. Bulk rares with narrow tribal relevance rarely climb unless the tribe breaks out, so treat it as a cheap role-player rather than a hold.

Explore

Sources

Mentioned

← All cards

Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.