Towering Gibbon
Creature — Ape
Reach
Towering Gibbon's power is equal to the greatest mana value among creatures you control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #11606
Towering Gibbon pumps every Ape and Monkey you control the moment it enters, turning a board of tokens into an immediate combat threat without waiting for an attack step. The payoff is real, but it's stapled to a four-mana 3/3 body — you're running it in Kibo, Uktabi Prince and nowhere else.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kibo, Uktabi Prince
Kibo, Uktabi Prince floods the board with Banana tokens that become Apes, so Towering Gibbon lands as a mass pump spell on an evasion-light board where the +1/+1 to every creature can swing races and close games.
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 |
Towering Gibbon is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a four-mana tribal pump creature with no protection and no immediate card advantage. Oathbreaker is the same story — the card's entire appeal is the Ape/Monkey tribal count, which no Oathbreaker shell assembles at scale. Commander is the only format where Towering Gibbon earns a slot, and even there it's a one-deck card: Kibo, Uktabi Prince lists are the sole realistic home, and it appears in over half of them for exactly that reason.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Towering Gibbon is deep bulk — you're not paying for the card, you're paying for the shipping. Demand is narrow enough that the price won't move; pick it up as a throw-in whenever you're ordering singles for a Kibo build.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.