Tree Monkey
Creature — Monkey
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Second Age
- Price
- $1.48
- EDHREC rank
- #11746
Tree Monkey is a 1/1 reach creature for one green mana — the body is negligible, and reach on a 1/1 rarely matters. Outside of Kibo, Uktabi Prince, where generating Banana tokens fuels the engine, Tree Monkey has no competitive reason to see play.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kibo, Uktabi Prince
Kibo, Uktabi Prince triggers a Banana token for each opponent whenever an ape enters, and Tree Monkey is one of the cheapest apes you can run — it enters for one mana, pads your ape count, and immediately feeds the artifact-token synergies Kibo builds around.
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 |
Tree Monkey is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, it's a strict Kibo, Uktabi Prince inclusion — the ape tribal tag does real work there and almost nowhere else. In Pauper, a 1/1 reach for one green is structurally fine but wins no competition for the slot. Legacy, Modern, and Vintage have no interest in a vanilla-adjacent one-drop with no enters-the-battlefield effect or meaningful statline.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.48 cheap tier
At $1.48, Tree Monkey sits at the low end of the cheap tier — you're paying a small premium for a narrow tribal piece. The price is driven almost entirely by Kibo demand, so it holds value only as long as that commander stays popular.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.