Ravenous Baboons
Creature — Monkey
When this creature enters, destroy target nonbasic land.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Exodus
- Price
- $2.53
- EDHREC rank
- #15955
Ravenous Baboons destroys a land when it enters the battlefield — repeated land destruction on a recursive or blink-able body is the entire point. The two-mana cost makes it efficient, but outside of dedicated land-hate builds or Kibo, Uktabi Prince decks that want the Banana token interaction, it's a niche card that draws justified hate.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kibo, Uktabi Prince
Kibo, Uktabi Prince generates Banana artifacts and rewards opponents cracking them, so running Ravenous Baboons as repeatable land destruction applies pressure while feeding the artifact-matters engine — every bounce or flicker is another land gone and another threat on the board.
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 |
Ravenous Baboons is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's essentially a Commander card in practice. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster, more reliable land disruption that doesn't require a creature surviving a turn cycle. In Commander, Ravenous Baboons occupies a specific role in land-hate and mono-red or Gruul strategies that want to grind opponents off mana, and it earns its slot most cleanly under Kibo, Uktabi Prince where the enter-the-battlefield trigger compounds over a game.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.53 cheap tier
At $2.53, Ravenous Baboons sits in the cheap tier — low enough to include without much deliberation if it fits your strategy. It's a narrow card with a limited audience, so the price is unlikely to climb unless Kibo-style builds spike in popularity.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.