Elephant-Mandrill
Creature — Elephant Monkey
Reach
When this creature enters, each player creates a Food token. (It's an artifact with "
, 
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
At the beginning of combat on your turn, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each artifact your opponents control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #15472
Elephant-Mandrill puts a relevant body on the board and feeds the Banana token engine that Kibo, Uktabi Prince runs on — both halves of the card do work in that shell. Outside of dedicated Kibo lists, it's a niche roleplayer with no competitive home.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kibo, Uktabi Prince
Kibo, Uktabi Prince distributes Banana tokens to opponents, and Elephant-Mandrill punishes them for cracking those tokens — the combination turns Kibo's generosity into a board-state tax that accelerates your own game plan while bleeding the table.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Elephant-Mandrill is a Commander card through and through — its value is entirely contingent on the Banana token synergy that Kibo, Uktabi Prince generates, and that engine only exists in a multiplayer context where distributing tokens to multiple opponents scales the payoff. It's legal in Legacy and Vintage but sees zero play there; the effect is too narrow and too slow for those formats. In Commander outside of Kibo, Elephant-Mandrill has no reliable way to trigger its ability and should stay on the bench.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Elephant-Mandrill is firmly bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that's a near-auto-include in the one deck that wants it. That price is stable; demand is real but tightly bounded by Kibo's popularity, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.