Simian Brawler
Creature — Ape Warrior
Discard a land card: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #24405
Simian Brawler is a vanilla 4/4 for five mana with no abilities — it puts a medium-sized body on the board and nothing else. In 2025, that rate doesn't make the cut anywhere creatures with comparable stats come with text boxes attached.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Simian Brawler is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, a 4/4 for five with no enter-the-battlefield trigger, no evasion, and no text is filler you cut during the first revision. In Pauper, where the common-card pool concentrates competition at lower mana values, a five-drop needs to do something — Simian Brawler doesn't. Legacy and Vintage have redundancy at every slot that renders a vanilla five-drop invisible.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Simian Brawler is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a box at the bottom of a trade binder. The price won't move; there's no competitive demand pulling it in any direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.