Hooting Mandrills
Creature — Ape
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 
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Trample
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #13250
Hooting Mandrills is a 4/4 trampler that routinely costs one or two mana once your graveyard has any depth — the rate is real and the body closes games. Outside of dedicated graveyard or Ape tribal shells like Kibo, Uktabi Prince, though, you're just playing a vanilla beater with no built-in recursion or upside.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kibo, Uktabi Prince
Kibo, Uktabi Prince runs Hooting Mandrills as a near-free tribal body — Ape synergies from Kibo's Banana tokens and the deck's graveyard churn make delve trivial, so you're consistently dropping a 4/4 trampler for G on turn two or three.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Pauper, Hooting Mandrills earns a real slot in Dimir and Sultai Delver shells where filling the graveyard is already the game plan and a one-mana 4/4 trampler is a legitimate threat. Legacy sees it occasionally in similar tempo builds, though the competition at that cost is fierce enough that it rarely sticks. Modern has moved past it — Tarmogoyf and better delve threats have crowded it out. In Commander, Hooting Mandrills is a role-player in graveyard-heavy green decks and a strong inclusion in Kibo, Uktabi Prince specifically, but it's too parasitic on a full graveyard to slot into generic green piles.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Hooting Mandrills is bulk — you're paying pennies for a card that punches well above its price in the right shell. Bulk rares and commons with genuine playability in multiple formats tend to stay cheap indefinitely, so there's no urgency and no price risk either way.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.