Savage Gorilla
Creature — Ape
, 
, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. Draw a card.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Apocalypse
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #31020
Savage Gorilla is a 3/3 for three with a built-in enchantment removal trigger — solid stats backed by real utility. The cost is that the effect is conditional and telegraphed, making it a role-player rather than a staple.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Savage Gorilla is a pauper-legal common, and that's where it does its best work — enchantment removal stapled to a reasonably-sized body is exactly the kind of two-for-one efficiency that commons-only formats reward. In Commander, it competes with a crowded field of better-statted or more flexible enchantment answers, so it earns a slot primarily in Gruul or mono-green creature-based builds that want redundancy at common rarity or value the body alongside the effect. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; Savage Gorilla is simply outclassed by the raw power level of those formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Savage Gorilla is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. That price is stable by definition; bulk commons don't move unless a format breaks them, and nothing on the horizon suggests that here.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.