The Monkey King by BiggestRed

Format: Commander

Commander: Kibo, Uktabi Prince

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul tribal stompy strategy led by Kibo, Uktabi Prince. The game plan revolves around giving all players Banana artifact tokens and punishing opponents when those artifacts are cracked or destroyed. Every time an opponent's artifact hits the graveyard, Kibo permanently buffs all friendly Apes and Monkeys with +1/+1 counters. The deck accelerates into play with green ramp spells, establishes Kibo on Turn 3, and floods the board with synergistic primates. Heavy artifact destruction from cards like Kogla, the Titan Ape, Silverback Elder, and Anzrag's Rampage turns opposing mana rocks into team-wide power spikes. Massive trampling beaters supported by Garruk's Uprising and Return of the Wildspeaker apply overwhelming combat pressure. While weak to creature sweepers and lacking stack countermagic, the deck delivers consistent mid-game pressure and high board-state resilience.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ancient Silverback
• 1 Anzrag's Rampage
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Captain America's Shield
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Decimate
• 1 Dosan the Falling Leaf
• 1 Druids' Repository
• 1 Elephant-Mandrill
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fang Guardian
• 1 Fangren Marauder
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Ferocious Tigorilla
• 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1 Flopsie, Bumi's Buddy
• 9 Forest
• 1 Game Trail
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Gearbane Orangutan
• 1 Gorilla War Cry
• 1 Great Train Heist
• 1 Grunn, the Lonely King
• 1 Gruul Turf
• 1 Guerrilla Gorilla
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Highland Forest
• 1 Hit-Monkey
• 1 Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• 1 Inventors' Fair
• 1 Invigorating Hot Spring
• 1 Jaheira's Respite
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
• 1 Kessig Wolf Run
• 1 Kibo, Uktabi Prince
• 1 Kird Chieftain
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Kogla and Yidaro
• 1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
• 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
• 1 Monkey Cage
• 1 Mossfire Valley
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Mycosynth Lattice
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Primal Vigor
• 1 Quest for Renewal
• 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1 Ravenous Baboons
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Return to Nature
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Rugged Highlands
• 1 Scrounging Bandar
• 1 Season of Gathering
• 1 Sheltered Thicket
• 1 Signature Slam
• 1 Silverback Elder
• 1 Silverback Shaman
• 1 Simian Sling
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
• 1 Temple of Abandon
• 1 Terrasymbiosis
• 1 The Cabbage Merchant
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Towering Gibbon
• 1 Tree Monkey
• 1 Treetop Village
• 1 Uktabi Orangutan
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Viridian Revel
• 1 Well Rested
• 1 Wooded Ridgeline
• 1 Yavimaya Steelcrusher
• 1 Zodiac Monkey