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Simian Simulacrum

Artifact Creature — Ape

When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.
Unearth {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{3}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
The Brothers' War
Price
$0.26
EDHREC rank
#10048
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Simian Simulacrum card art
Simian Simulacrum enters with a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control, which snowballs fast in go-wide token builds and turns a single blink into a board pump. The cost is real — five mana is a lot to ask — but in Emiel the Blessed or Kibo, Uktabi Prince shells that blink repeatedly, the counter generation compounds quickly enough to justify the slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Kibo, Uktabi Prince

Kibo, Uktabi Prince

60.4% of decks · synergy 0.58

Kibo, Uktabi Prince generates a Banana token for each opponent on upkeep, and Simian Simulacrum's enters-the-battlefield counter dump rewards you for having a wide board of creatures to grow — every blink or flicker effect turns that into a permanent pump across the team.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Simian Simulacrum is a Commander card through and through — the enters-the-battlefield trigger only pays off when you have a full board and a way to recur it, conditions that 100-card singleton enables far better than any 60-card format. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but essentially invisible; five mana for a vanilla 3/3 with a one-shot counter effect doesn't come close to competing with what those formats demand at that price point. Stick to Commander, and specifically to blink or flicker decks where the trigger fires more than once.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.26 bulk tier

At $0.26, Simian Simulacrum sits firmly in bulk territory — you can pick it up as a throw-in without thinking twice. Bulk rares with niche combo applications tend to stay cheap, so there's no urgency and no risk in waiting.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.